Friday, February 12th

Lesson Objectives - Students will take the quiz for Vocabulary Unit 10.  They will then continue their Close Reading Quiz on the story, "A Mystery of Heroism." After a review on the organization of the compare/contrast formats, students will begin the next story "Bloody Times."  Here, the students will compare/contrast the leadership styles of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
Homework -The Close Reader book check is on Tuesday.  Please be sure that the questions for "A Mystery of Heroism" and "Civil War Journal" are completed.
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.