Wednesday, January 20th

Lesson Objectives - Students will create their Flash Cards for Vocabulary Unit 9.  They will then participate in a Smart Board activity regarding biographies and autobiographies.  Students will return to "The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave" and respond to text-based questions.  
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.