Tuesday, October 17th

Lesson Objectives - Students will create their Flash Cards for Vocabulary Unit 4.  They will engage in a brief review of active/passive voice in their writing from Grammar Notes using their chrome books.  Students will then share the responses to their Close Readers questions to help them review for tomorrow's quiz on "The Latehomecomer."
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.