Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Post date: Oct 7, 2015 10:47:55 AM
Section 1
Learning Objectives:
October 7, 2015
Today’s Agenda
Students will be able to identify the writer's message and explain how it was conveyed through the text through facts, opinions, and analogies for Bonne Annee.
Students will begin The Latehomecomer exploring the theme through the writer's use of imagery and figurative language.
1. Warm-up: Buzzword: transcend
2. Enter page 41 Vocab in Context and practice your Quizlet part of speech.
3. Experiment: Comment on Bonne Anne paragraphs.
4. Watch "Nuggets." What is the message? How does the artist use animation and sound to convey a message?
Whole Group Lesson
Small Group work and/or Lesson Concept clarification.
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
Comment on Bonne Annee paragraphs
Assessment/Important Up-coming dates
Study for quiz
Vocab quiz Friday, October 8
Homework
Quiz Friday!
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).
Sections 2 & 3
Learning Objectives:
October 7, 2015
Today’s Agenda
Whole Group Lesson
Introduce Bonne Annee vocabulary
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.
Reading Bonne Annee and summarizing as they go. Are they understanding what they read?
Assessment/Important Up-coming dates
Interims have been submitted.
huddled commingle
indistinguishable predominate
incidental adamant
coup inevitably
persecution dispossessed
crescendo buoyed
natal