Thursday, February 15th

Lesson Objectives - Students will start Vocabulary Unit 11 with a Word Sort activity.  They will then prepare to analyze Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!" with Level Up Tutorial regarding the use of symbols in literature.  Students will review their understanding with an informal assessment activity.      Homework - Close Reader books are due on Friday, 2/23.  Make sure you have the following questions completed:

• "My Friend Douglass" - Questions 1-7
• "A Mystery of Heroism" - Questions 1-18
• Civil War Journal" -  Questions 1-5, 7

Achieve 3000 - Complete the following assignments before midnight on Monday.  This marking period, students are responsible for these assignments.

• "Freeing the Slaves"
• "Olympic Highlights"

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).