Week 30
Week 30 March
03/25/2024-03/29/2024
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:
Reminder: Food is to be eaten in the cafeteria, not in class.
Start Entry Task
Study the following idioms and academic terms. You will be tested on them this Thursday.
Idioms of the Week -
Stick to your guns - Stay morally strong or be firm in decisions
Beating a dead horse - Overdoing something or an action that is pointless
Elephant in the room - A controversial problem or a major issue
Academic Vocabulary Words of the Week -
evaluate – determine the value, significance, or worth of.
explain – to make plain or understandable
identify – establish the essential characteristics of
Test -from last week
Continue reading Bud, Not Buddy.
176/13=13.53 Average 14 pages per day. Your last day to read is April 28th. Your comprehension test for this book will be on April 29; please make sure you follow what is happening in the story by taking notes, making predictions, asking questions, and using a bookmark.
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 Bud, Not Buddy.
Wednesday:
Continue reading Bud, Not Buddy.
Thursday:
Start Part 1 Entry Task
Turn in Weekly Idiom and Vocabulary Outline
Test- Idioms/ Academic terms/Sentence type/Comma
SSR-Independent Reading Project or continue reading Bud, Not Buddy.
Friday:
1/2 DAY - The schedule is to be determined