Thursday, September 7th

Lesson Objectives - Students will take their first Reading Inventory test of the year.  They can use the last page of the test to find books to read for the Reader Response Packet. Students will then continue working on yesterday's project where they were to apply the concepts of human nature themes and life lesson themes to various media formats.  They will begin to present these to the rest of the class tomorrow.
Homework - Students are to begin looking for their book to read in order to complete September's Reader Response Packet.
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.8.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.