Tuesday, November 15th

Lesson Objectives - Students will then continue to apply the ideas of suspense and foreshadowing to the story "The Monkey's Paw" using both text and film versions.  They will also discuss the effectiveness of the choices made by the director and screenwriter in their presentation of the story.
Homework - Students will take their quiz on the Monkey's Paw tomorrow.  Their Unit 5 Vocabulary Quiz is on Friday.
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.8.6 - Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.