Friday, December 5th

Lesson Objectives - After some sentence building from Vocabulary Unit 7, students will continue to explore the concept of theme and how it is related to the message authors provide to the reader. Students will apply this concept to an excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
Homework - Continue reading your novel for December's Reader Response Sheet..
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