Thursday, January 11th

Lesson Objectives - Students will participate in a Graphic Representation activity for Vocabulary Unit 8.  They will then continue their study of the autobiographical piece from Fredrick Douglass.  They will then continue their study of the historical figure with the Close Reader story, "My Friend Douglass."  Students can use this as a starting point as research for their Performance Task due at the end of Collection 3.  
Homework - December's Reader Response Packet is due ASAP!!  Vocabulary Unit 8 quiz and flash cards are due tomorrow.  
Achieve 3000 - Work on the following 2 articles and their related assignments:

• Civil War and Reconstruction - Two Groups, Rights For All 
• The Secret of Lincoln's Watch
  

CCSS -

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.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.RI.8.2  - Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.3  - Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).