Wednesday, September 21st

Lesson Objectives - Students will individually determine the main idea of the essay "Bonne Annee."  After an interactive SMARTboard lesson about reading informational text, they will begin their analysis of "A Place to Call Home."  Here, they will study the author's use of statistics and the effectiveness of the authors claim.
Homework - Continue reading your book for September's Reader Response Packet.
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.