Friday, September 16th

Lesson Objectives - Students will take their quiz on Vocabulary Unit 1.  Students will then review the performance task at the end of the unit before they start the next story, "Bonne Annee."  Here they will examine the author's use of a non-linear timeline in his storytelling.
Homework - Continue reading your book for September's Reader Response Packet.
CCSS -

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.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.RL.8.3 - Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts