Friday, December 19th

Lesson Objectives - Students will take their Vocabulary Unit 8 quiz. They will then continue with the next story, "One Last Time, "by Gary Soto. Here, they will study the organization of the story while looking for sensory details as well as the main themes.  They will then examine examples of run-on sentences and make corrections.
Homework - Students are to make test corrections for the "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" quiz. Their class work packet pages 6-11 are also due on Monday.  Students will also have their "One Last Time" quiz on Monday as well .
CCSS-

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.1 Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.3 Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.2.e Establish and maintain a formal style.