Tuesday, November 29th

Lesson Objectives - Students will make corrections for the Unit 5 Vocabulary Quiz.  They will then use their Close Reader workbooks to examine "Man Made Monsters, " an essay regarding the horror genre.  This is information they might decide to use in the upcoming Performance Task.
Homework - The Reader Response Packet for November is due tomorrow.
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).