Wednesday, February 14th

Lesson Objectives - In various groupings, students will discuss and find text evidence that best describes Louisa May Alcott's nursing experience in her work "Civil War Journal."  They will individually develop a written response that uses direct quotes from the author.    
Homework - Class work pages 8-10 and 1-5 are due tomorrow.  Any late work (Reader Response Packet, Notes With Quotes quiz) is due on or before that day as well.  
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).