
Teacher | Melissa Forney |
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Subject Area | ELA/Reading |
Grade Level | 8 |
Week # | 11 |
Unit of Instruction | Argumentative thinking, logic, pros, cons, counterclaim, read novel and discuss |
Standard(s) Taught |
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LAFS.8.RL.1.1: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the LAFS.8.RL.1.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, LAFS.8.RL.1.3: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. LAFS.8.RL.2.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. LAFS.8.RL.2.5: Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style. LAFS.8.RL.2.6: Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) LAFS.8.RL.3.7: Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the LAFS.8.RL.3.9: Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious LAFS.8.RL.4.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 6–8 text complexity |
Learning Targets and Learning Criteria |
My students will give oral book reports. My students will listen quietly and attentively to their peers while they are presenting their oral book reports. My students will take their VLT writing diagnostic and do their best writing and citing. My students will read their class novel, The House on Mango Street. My students will choose a new chapter book and begin reading. |
Classroom Activities |
Monday – Oral book reports, The House on Mango Street, Edgenuity Language Arts Tuesday – Oral book reports, The House on Mango Street, Edgenuity Language Arts Wednesday – Veteran’s Day Thursday – VLT writing diagnostic, Edgenuity Language Arts Friday – VLT writing diagnostic, Edgenuity Language Arts |
Assignments Due |
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Additional Resources |
Accommodations: Read passages aloud, help correct words that were mispronounced, explain the meanings of words, offer different ways to express knowledge, stay after other students have left to work on assignments to work one-on-one with students or to answer their questions or solve problems for them, offer longer times to complete assignments, break learning into smaller chunks, play learning games that teach new information or reinforce information already taught, teach with pictures and videos to give students visual clues and experiences |