October 10, 2014

Post date: Oct 10, 2014 11:03:56 AM

Objectives:

  1. All students will have submitted the hook and summary of their book review on the Google Spreadsheet. Students will demonstrate skills of summarizing, complex sentence structure, and proper grammar.
  2. Section 1 students will have entered their short story hook and summary on the Google Spreadsheet so they are on track to finish their story by October 30th.
  3. Sections 2 and 3 will work to increase their lexile scores on Achieve by doing the poll question and answering the Activity Questions correctly. (Poll question is 60 words with no grammar errors!)

Today:

You are to use the computers to accomplish the required work:

  1. Tell me something good
  2. Achieve (Sections 2 and 3 only)
  3. Finish your work on your wiki
  4. Submit your book review hook and summary here.
  5. Submit your short story hook and summary here.
  6. Section 1 will take the vocab quiz for unit 1

Common Core Standards in this lesson

CC.8.R.L.2 Key Ideas and Details: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.

CC.8.R.L.6 Craft and Structure: Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.

CC.8.R.L.4 Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.