Tuesday, January 24th

Objectives - Students will take their quiz for Vocabulary Unit 8.  They will then finish answering the Close Reader questions for "A Mystery of Heroism."  After a review of the concept of mood, students will begin reading "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh."
Homework - Class Work pages 7-11, and the Abolitionist pages are 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