Thursday, January 21st

Lesson Objectives - Students will participate in the Sentence Share for Vocabulary Unit 9.  They will then practice the appropriate use of punctuating quotations in writing.  Students will return to "The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave" and respond to text-based questions.
Homework - The quiz on the current story is tomorrow.  Students are to continue reading their book for January's Reader Response Sheet due on Friday, January 29th.
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.