Wednesday, January 3rd

Lesson Objectives - Students will complete a Word Sort activity for Vocabulary Unit 8.  They will then preview Collection 3 as well as the related Performance Task.  Students will review the concepts of the formats related the autobiographies and biographies before they apply the information to a non-fiction piece on Fredrick Douglass.
Homework - December's Reader Response Packet is due by Friday, January 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).