Wednesday, January 24th

Lesson Objectives - Students will participate in a Sentence Share for Vocabulary Unit 9.  They will then continue their study of Harriet Tubman with a biographical essay, "Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad" with the help of close reading questions.  They may use some time to begin researching this historic figure for the Abolitionists Hall of Fame project.  

Achieve 3000 - Complete the following articles and assignments before midnight on Monday. 

• September 1861: The Union Tries to Make Gains
• January 1862: Another Win For the South

Homework - "Harriet Tubman" quiz is tomorrow.
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).