Thursday, May 5th

Lesson Objectives - Students will create their Flash Cards for Vocabulary Unit 14.  They will then continue to identify, critique, and discuss the effectiveness of Francine Prose's literary analysis of "Diary of a Young Girl."  Students will also examine and identify the persuasive techniques Elie Weisel uses in his speech regarding Auschwitz.
Homework - Continue reading for May's RRS.
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.8.8 - Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.