Tuesday, February 24th

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Lesson Objectives - Students will create their Flash Cards for Vocabulary Unit 12. With the aid of the Common Core Assessment Workbook, they will then 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.

• Thursday/Monday - Students will analyze argumentative writing models.
• Today - 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 - Students are to bring their completed Flash Cards to class tomorrow.  They should continue reading their book for the February Reader Response Sheet.

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).