Wednesday, December 6th

Lesson Objectives - Students will make create their flash cards for the Vocabulary Unit 7 words.  They will then use the Close Reader to examine the inspiration of the horror genre in the essay "Man-Made Monsters."  Students will then review the main concepts of this story style (foreshadowing, suspense, narration, mood, and tone) before they apply them to a non-horror story.
Achieve 3000 - Students are to complete the following articles before the end of Monday, December 11th:

• "One Smart Bird"
• "What's Wrong With Email Voting?"

Homework - Class Work pages 1-7 and the sub packet are due on Thursday, December 7th.
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