Thursday, February 19th

Lesson Objectives - With the aid of the Common Core Assessment Workbook, students will engage in close reading strategies that will help review examples of argumentative writing.  This is a three step process that will help them practice for upcoming assessments.

• Today - Students will analyze argumentative writing models.
• Next - They will practice using this model in their own writing.
• And Finally - They will perform the skills needed to develop and publish a working model.

Homework - Class Work pages 1-5 and Fredrick Douglass quiz corrections are due tomorrow at the beginning of class.

CCSS -

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.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.RI.8.2 - Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.3 - Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).