Week 20
Week 20 January
01/15/2023-01/19/2024
Applicable Common Core College and Career Readiness Standards
Key Ideas and Details:
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
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 a specific word choice on meaning and tone
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they "see" and "hear" when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
Monday
No School -Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Tuesday
Study the following idioms. You will be tested on them this Friday.
Idiom - a form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people.
Idioms Words of the Week -
A leopard can’t change its spots - People don’t change
Chicken out - To decide not to do something, usually at the last minute
Get the lion’s share - Get the biggest portion
Academic Vocabulary Words of the Week -
analogy – a similarity between like features of two things
argument – a reason or set of reasons that something is true
central Idea – the most important point the author makes
Review the proper use of commas and the three sentence types; see Comma Rules and the Sentence Type information in Google Classroom - you will be quizzed and tested regularly.
New groups this week:
Gold Group -All others
Assignment-
In your MyPerspectives workbook, start reading Act 1 of The Phantom Tollbooth Act 1, pages 283-306. Answer all Close Read questions (Annotate, Question, and Conclude) in the margins of the Notes section—answer in complete sentences. Also, answer questions 1-5 on page 307.
When complete, carefully remove all pages, staple them together, and turn them in by the end of class this Friday.
Red Group - Edelmiro, Lucas, Domanik, and Ricky
Assignment-
You will revive a handout 6th Grade Rewrite and Analyze Assignment, also in Google Classroom. Follow the instructions on the handout, which will be due by the end of class this Thursday.
Wednesday
Start Entry Task
Continue yesterday's assignment.
Thursday:
Start Entry Task
Continue yesterday's assignment.
SNOW DAY
Friday:
SNOW DAY
Start Part 1 Entry Task
Idioms/ Academic noun and verbs/Sentence type and Comma test
If Tuesday's assignment is done SSR/Remember, the three assignments linked to the Individual Reading Project will be done by January 23rd.
Next week is MAPS testing.