Week 8
Week 8 October
10/16/2023-10/20/2023
Applicable Common Core College and Career Readiness Standards
Conventions of Standard English:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.
Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green shirt).
Spell correctly.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
Spell correctly.
Knowledge of Language:
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.*
Maintain consistency in style and tone.*
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use:
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word's position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).
Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Interpret figures of speech (e.g., personification) in context.
Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words.
Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty).
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
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 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.
Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Craft and Structure:
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Monday:
Start Entry Task
Study the following idioms. You will be quizzed on them sometime this week and tested this Friday.
Idiom - a form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people.
Idioms Words of the Week -
By the skin of your teeth - To barely succeed.
At the 11th Hour - At the last moment.
Hit the books - Going to study.
Academic Vocabulary Words of the Week -
demonstrate - to illustrate and explain especially with many examples
describe – to represent or give an account of in words
determine – to find out or come to a decision about by investigation, reasoning
Gold Group -Kylie, Yamilette, Brooklynn, and Brailyn.
Red Group - All others
Gold Group
Continue reading the book Al Capone Does My Shirts. See Google Classroom.
There is no study guide or vocabulary words. Try to average reading 12 pages per day.
Red Group - All others
You will start by reading the prereading guide to the book Crash in Google Classroom.
Study the 20 vocabulary words in the prereading guide; you will be tested when we complete the book reading.
You will have 15 class days to read the book; see Google Classroom. Remember, every 5 chapters, handwrite a 5 chapter review before reading on--see details in Google Classroom.
Tuesday:
Start Entry Task
Red and Gold Groups
Continue Monday's assignment
Wednesday:
Start Entry Task
Red and Gold Groups
Continue Monday's assignment
Gold Group
Continue reading the book Al Capone Does My Shirts. See Google Classroom.
There is no study guide or vocabulary words. Try to average reading 12 pages per day.
Red Group - All others
You will continue reading the book Crash in Google Classroom.
Study the 20 vocabulary words in the prereading guide; you will be tested when we complete the book reading.
You will have 15 class days to read the book; see Google Classroom. Remember, every 5 chapters, handwrite a 5 chapter review before reading on--see details in Google Classroom.
Thursday:
Start Entry Task
Red and Gold Groups
Continue Monday's assignment
Gold Group
Continue reading the book Al Capone Does My Shirts. See Google Classroom.
There is no study guide or vocabulary words. Try to average reading 12 pages per day.
Red Group - All others
You will continue reading the book Crash in Google Classroom.
Study the 20 vocabulary words in the prereading guide; you will be tested when we complete the book reading.
You will have 15 class days to read the book; see Google Classroom. Remember, every 5 chapters, handwrite a 5 chapter review before reading on--see details in Google Classroom.
Friday:
Start Part 1 Entry Task
idioms/academic nouns and verbs/sentence type test
Red and Gold Groups
Continue reading Al Capone Does My Shirts or Crash