Week 25
Week 25 February
02/21/2024-02/23/2024
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 - Tuesday:
No school - Mid-winter Break
Wednesday:
Start Entry Task
No test this week! 😭
compound-complex sentences / subject vs object in a sentence (see Google Classroom)
Continue reading the Island of the Blue Dolphins. There will be no more chapter comprehension tests. There will be a final comprehension test when the entire book is read.
Note: For those students who did not complete the Independent Reading Project Numbered or Lettered Final Projects last semester, they are assigned #2 (write a resume...) for the numbered final project and the letter "B" ( construct a Google Slide...) for the lettered final project. Both are to be done by April 18th - along with the 1-2 minute SYB presentation.
Thursday:
Start Entry Task
Continue reading the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Friday:
Guest speaker!