Monday, January 11th

Lesson Objectives - Students will begin Collection 3 of the textbook by previewing the Performance Task they will eventually need to complete at the end f the unit.  They will begin the first story, "My Friend Douglass."  Here they will annotate the text by citing text evidence and finding author's claims.
Homework -  Students are to continue reading their book for January's Reader Response Sheet due on Friday, 1/29/16.
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).
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.