Friday, December 1st

Lesson Objectives - Students will make Vocabulary Unit 6 quiz corrections.  They will then continue to apply the idea of foreshadowing to "The Monkey's Paw" by looking at character dialogue, plot events, and imagery found in the story.  Students will then continue to compare and contrast the text version with a film version.

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

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

Homework - November's Reader Response Packet 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