Friday, November 13th

Lesson Objectives - Students will complete their Word Sort for Vocabulary Unit 6.  They will then continue to analyze "Scary Tales," an argumentative essay by Jackie Torrence.  Finally, students will begin to read the following story "The Monkey's Paw" after they review the concept of foreshadowing.
Homework - Students are to continue reading their books for November's Reader Response Sheet.
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.RL.8.3 - Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.