Tuesday, January 19th

Lesson Objectives - Students will complete their word sort for Vocabulary Unit 9.  They will then read "The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave."  Here, they will determine the main ideas of the story and determine his motives of his methods for speaking out against the practice of slavery.
Homework - 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.