Friday, October 13th

Lesson Objectives - Students will take a tour of the Achieve3000 application on their chrome books.  They will be able to find articles and assignments based on their Lexile level.  Students will then continue to apply the concepts of imagery and figurative language to the story, "The Latehomecomer."
Homework - Continue working on October's Reader Response Packet which is due on Friday, October 27th.
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.