Monday, January 30th

Objectives - Students will complete the Word Sort for Vocabulary Unit 9.  They will then share their responses to the close reading questions related to "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." Students will then begin their research on another abolitionist, Abraham Lincoln, as they begin their study of "Bloody Times: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis."
Homework - January's Reader Response Packet due TOMORROW!.
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