Tuesday, February 10th

Lesson Objectives - Students will make corrections for the Unit 11 Vocabulary Quiz.  They will them analyze the author's use of characterization in telling Harriet Tubman's story.   Students will use close reading strategies to examine the techniques used by the author as well.  Finally, they will determine if she will be included in their upcoming Performance Task.
Homework - Students should prepare for tomorrow's Quiz on "Harriet Tubman."
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).