Monday, October 2nd

Lesson Objectives - Students will complete a Word Sort activity for Vocabulary Unit 3.   They will then determine the main idea "A Place to Call Home" by looking at the author's use of statistics, examples, and graphic aids.
Homework - Students are to find another book to read for October's Reader Response Packet.
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).