Tuesday, February 23rd

Lesson Objectives - Students will complete the Sentence Share for the Vocabulary Unit 11 words.  They will continue to analyze the poem "O Captain My Captain" as they look for figurative meanings in the context of the ideas from the current unit.
Homework - Students will have their quiz on "O Captain My Captain" tomorrow.  They received their Performance Task packets today for their Visual Presentation due on Monday, March 7th.
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.