Thursday, November 9th

Lesson Objectives - Students will participate in a Sentence Share activity for Vocabulary Unit 5.  After a brief review of tone and mood, they will apply these ideas as they read the essay, "Scary Stories."
Homework - Signed SDR's are due.  The Achieve 3000 article "Books that Move" is due on Sunday.  Students are to continue reading their book for November's Reader Response Packet.
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