Wednesday, November 15th

Lesson Objectives - Students will participate in a Word Sort activity Vocabulary Unit 6.  They will then apply the ideas of tone and mood as they read the short story, "The Outsider" in their Close Reader workbooks.  Students will collaborate in pairs and in groups to find supporting evidence that determines whether the narrator of "The Outsider" is reliable or not.  They will individually compose a written response that supports their findings.
Homework - Signed SDR's are due.  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