Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Post date: Oct 20, 2015 10:51:14 AM
Section 1
Learning Objectives:
October 20, 2015
Today’s Agenda
Students will will be able to analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies and allusions in the excerpt from The Latehomecomer.
Students will Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
1. Warm-up: Buzzword- Luminous
2. Enter Completing the Sentence
3. Read Nuggets Sample and discuss
4. Rewrite your Bonne Annee essay
Whole Group Lesson
- Go to this page and copy what you wrote (if you don't already have it.)
- Create a Google document called "Bonne Annee Theme."
- Share the document with ability to edit to mrbozhb@gmail.com
- Reorganize and complete the essaybased on these requirements and rubric. Look at the bottom.
- (I will take this as a larger grade. Take your time and support your claims.)
Work time
Small Group work and/or Lesson Concept clarification.
Assessment/Important Up-coming dates
Performance Task: At the end of this collection students will write an expository essay focusing on the challenges immigrants face and the adjustments immigrants make.
Vocabulary
Allusion
Homework
Finish Unit 3 by Wednesday.
Quiz Unit 3 Friday, October 23
These are the Common Core Standards discussed throughout this unit. I will highlight which standard or part of the standard I will focus on each day.
CC.8.R.L.1 I will be able to cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CC.8.R.L.2 I will be able to 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.3 I will be able to analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
CC.8.R.L.4 I will be able to 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.
CC.8.L.4.b Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., precede, recede, secede).
CC.8.W.2 Text Types and Purposes: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Sections 2 & 3
Learning Objectives:
October 20, 2015
Today’s Agenda
Students will have established a purpose for reading The Latehomecomer. They will read with that purpose in mind.
Students will taken notes on the challenges of immigrants so they can use them in the performance task at the end of the unit.
Students will .
1. Warm-up: Buzzword- Luminous
2. Organize the challenges and adjustments faced by the Haitians in Bonne Anne
3. Begin The Latehomecomer by reading page 67 in the book and setting a purpose: Imagery, Figurative Language, Challenges and Adjustments
4. Listen through line 107 and complete first box on this sheet.
Whole Group Lesson
Challenges and adjustments in notes
Performance Task: At the end of this collection students will write an expository essay focusing on the challenges immigrants face and the adjustments immigrants make.
Vocabulary
Small Group work and/or Lesson Concept clarification.
Assessment/Important Up-coming dates
Imagery
Figurative Language
Metaphor, Simile, Personification