Wednesday, January 31st

Lesson Objectives - Students will continue their study of Stephen Crane's short story, "A Mystery of Heroism" from the Close Readers.  They will meet in small collaborative groups to research information to use in the "Notes With Quotes" quiz based on the story.  Students will then compose their individual responses.  
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 - Achieve 300 Articles and January's Reader Response Packet are due on Monday, February 5th.
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).