Thursday, February 8th

Lesson Objectives - Students will participate in a Graphic Representation activity for the Vocabulary Unit 10 words.  They will then practice a grammar exercise that will help them correct their use of apostrophes in their writing.   Students will continue their study of "Bloody Times" by summarizing key points and answering close reading questions  
Achieve 3000 - Complete the following articles and assignments before midnight on Monday.  This marking period, student are responsible for these assignments. 

• March 1862: The Ironclads and the Stonewall.
• Freedom For All

Homework - Reader Response Packets for January and Student Detail Reports are due now!
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).