Tuesday, January 31st

Objectives - Students will create their Flash Cards 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 - Last call for January'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).