Wednesday, January 18th

Lesson Objectives - Students will create their Flash Cards for Vocabulary Unit 8.  They will work in small groups to complete the close reading questions for the selection about Harriet Tubman. Students will then apply the concept of characterization to the this historic figure.
Homework - December's Reader Response Packet as well as the Green Workbook (with reaction paper) are both due NOW!!!
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).
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.6 - Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.