Week 26
Week 26 February
02/26/2024-03/01/2024
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:
Study the following idioms and academic terms. You will be tested on them this Friday.
Idioms of the Week -
Having a monkey on your back - To have a problem that you cannot solve easily
Other fish in the sea - More opportunities elsewhere
To get bent out of shape - To be upset
Academic Vocabulary Words of the Week -
articulate – able to express oneself clearly and well
cite – to quote by way of proof
compare – show how the facts or ideas are similar
Review last week's test.
Review the proper use of commas; see Comma Rules in Google Classroom - you will be quizzed and tested regularly.
Review P.OS. (See Google Classroom)
Note: Next Monday, March 4th, you will take your Island of the Blue Dolphins comprehension test and choose one of the four choice assignments (see Island of the Blue Dolphins Final Project - in Google Classroom).
Additional reminder: 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.
Tuesday:
Start Entry Task
Continue reading IOTBD.
Wednesday:
Start Entry Task
Continue reading IOTBD.
Thursday:
Start Entry Task
Finish reading IOTBD.
If done, take the Blue Dolphins comprehension test (Quizizz)
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Read your individual book and or study for tomorrow's tests.
Friday:
Start Part 1 Entry Task
Test- Idioms/ Academic terms/Sentence type/Comma
If you have not already, take The Island of the Blue Dolphins comprehension test in Quizizz.
SSR-Independent Reading Project