Week 27
Week 27 March
03/04/2024-03/08/2024
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 -
Clear the air - To talk openly and honestly
Ace in the hole - An advantage or resource kept hidden until needed
Call the shots - One who makes important decision
Academic Vocabulary Words of the Week -
comprehend – to understand
contrast – compare or appraise in respect to differences
delineate – to describe with accuracy or in detail
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)
After you have finished your Island of the Blue Dolphins comprehension test, choose one of the four choice assignments (see Island of the Blue Dolphins Final Project - in Google Classroom). This will be due by the end of class this Thursday.
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 yesterday's assignment.
Wednesday:
Start Entry Task
Continue Monday's assignment.
Thursday:
Start Entry Task
Finish Monday's assignment by the end of class today.
Friday:
Start Part 1 Entry Task
Test- Idioms/ Academic terms/Sentence type/Comma
SSR-Independent Reading Project