Thursday, November 30th

Lesson Objectives - Students will take their quiz for Vocabulary Unit 6.  After a brief review of the upcoming performance task, they will then continue to apply the ideas of foreshadowing, suspense, and mood as they finish "The Monkey's Paw."  Students will then compare and contrast that version with a film version of the same story.

Achieve 3000 - Students are to complete the following articles before Tuesday, December 5th:

• "How do you Like Your Music?"
• "Listen Up, Families!"

Homework - The quiz for Vocabulary Unit 6 is tomorrow.  Students are to continue reading their book for November's Reader Response Packet.  It is due on Monday, December 4th.
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