Wednesday, January 4th

Lesson Objectives - Students will make corrections to the Unit 6  Vocabulary quiz.  We will then preview Collection 3 as well as the Performance Task the students will complete at the end.  Students will begin their work in this Collection my reading "Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave."
Homework - December's Reader Response Packet as well as the Green Workbook (with reaction paper) are both due on Friday.
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.