Wednesday, February 21st

Lesson Objectives - Students will continue Vocabulary Unit 11 with a Sentence Share activity.  They will then begin new unit "Approaching Adulthood" with a short video clip, and the reading of the story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier. After, students will complete a short worksheet "pre-action" follow-up about the story's theme and vocabulary. This worksheet will be administered again at the end of our work within this story. Lastly, students will participate in a online activity within the medium "Padlet". Students will either make a prediction about what will happen next in the story, or how they think the main character has changed.  
Homework - Close Reader books are due THIS FRIDAY.  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

Performance Task - Students will create an "Abolitionists Hall of Fame" either on poster board or via digital means (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Prezi, etc.) 

For each abolitionist, you must include the following information:

• ·     Title Slide (if applicable)
  ·     Timeline information (mention at least 8 events, covering birth and death)
  ·     Explain 3 important facts in paragraph form.
  ·     Picture
  ·     Quotes (2 directly from him/her and 2 from others about him/her)
  ·      Short film clip (if done with computer)
  
  

  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).