Tuesday, October 20th

Lesson Objectives - Students will make their flash cards for Vocabulary Unit 4.  They will then continue writing the rough drafts for the Expository Essay Performance Task.  Rough and final drafts are due on Thursday at the end of class.
Homework - October's Reader Response Sheet is due at the end of next week.
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
•  CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.2 - Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.