Thursday, September 29th

Lesson Objectives - Students will take their quiz for the second vocabulary unit.  After a review of correcting sentence fragments, they will begin to make corrections for their "My Favorite Chaperone" quiz.  Students will then start their first story in the Close Reader titled "Museum Indians."
Homework - September's Reader Response Packet is due no later than Tuesday, October 4th.  Quiz corrections are due on 10/5.
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.8.2 - Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of 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.