Thursday, October 19th

Lesson Objectives - Students will participate in a Sentence Share activity for Vocabulary Unit 4.  They will then analyze the tools filmmakers use in sharing ideas via the documentary format.  Students will then evaluate all of the sources we have previously discussed as they begin to plan and develop their essay for the Collection 1 Performance Task.

Performance Task 1 Timeline:

• Thursday - source evaluation
• Friday - organize essay ideas, develop thesis statement, begin rough draft - introduction
• Monday - continue with introduction, begin body paragraphs
• Tuesday - complete rough draft with conclusion, begin peer editing
• Wednesday - finish peer editing, finish and submit final draft
  

Homework - Achieve3000 Article: Bring Back the Buffalo, due by Sunday, October 22nd. 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.