Tuesday, January 30th

Lesson Objectives - Students will continue their study of Stephen Crane's short story, "A Mystery of Heroism" from the Close Readers.  They will have some more time to continue researching Harriet Tubman for the Abolitionists Hall of Fame project or they can start the next round of Achieve 3000 articles.
Achieve 3000 - Complete the following articles and assignments before midnight on Monday.  This marking period are held responsible for these assignments 

• February 1862 - Losses to the North and South
• April 1862 - Freedom For Some

Homework - Vocabulary Unit 9 quiz is tomorrow.  Flash Cards are also due.
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).