Thursday, May 7th

Lesson Objectives - Students will create their sentence examples for Vocabulary unit 16.  With partners and small groups, they will determine the various themes found throughout the story "Marigolds." These ideas will be used to create a literary analysis that reflects how the themes still apply to their lives today.
Homework -Students are to begin reading their book for the May RRS, due May 28th.
CCSS -

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.1- Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.2 - Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.3 - Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).