Thursday, February 1st

Lesson Objectives - Students will make corrections on the Vocabulary Unit 9 quiz.  They will then finish their "Notes With Quotes" quiz based on Stephen Crane's short story, "A Mystery of Heroism" from the Close Readers.  Students will begin their study of Ray Bradbury's "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." 
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).