Wednesday, January 25th

Objectives - Students make quiz corrections for Vocabulary Unit 8.  They will then finish answering the Close Reader questions for "A Mystery of Heroism."  After this, they will continue reading "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" where they will apply the concepts of setting, imagery, symbolism, and allusion in order to definine the mood of the story.
Homework - Continue working on January's Reader Response Packet due on Tuesday, January 31st.
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