Cheryl Brown-8th grade Reading/Literature Class -Lesson Plans week of February 25, 2013 Periods 2, 4, 5: Pre-AP Reading; Periods

6, 7, 8: Traditional (Reg.) Reading Monday, 2/25/13 Tuesday, 2/26/13 Wednesday, 2/27/13 Thursday, 2/28/13 Friday, 3/1/13
Learning Targets:
ELA.8.2B Use context (within a sentence and in larger sections of text) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words, ambiguous words, or words with novel meanings. ELA.8.10A Summarize the main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas in text succinctly in ways that maintain meaning and logical order ELA.8.10B Distinguish factual claims from commonplace assertions and opinions and evaluate inferences from their logic in text.

Learning Targets:

ELA.RC.8C Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension (e.g., summarizing and synthesizing; making textual, personal, and world connections; visualizing). ELA.8.10D Synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres and support those findings with textual evidence ELA.8.10B Distinguish factual claims from commonplace assertions and opinions and evaluate inferences from their logic in text. ELA.8.11B Describe and analyze the use of such rhetorical and logical fallacies as loaded terms, caricatures, leading questions, false assumptions, and incorrect premises in persuasive texts

Learning Targets:

ELA.RC.8C Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension (e.g., summarizing and synthesizing; making textual, personal, and world connections; visualizing). ELA.RC.8B Ask literal, interpretive, evaluative, and universal questions of text. ELA.8.3A Analyze literary works that share similar themes across cultures, and support using textual evidence. ELA.8.10D Synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres and support those findings with textual evidence ELA.8.9A Analyze works written on the same topic and compare how the authors achieved similar or different purposes, and support using textual evidence.

Learning Targets:

ELA.RC.8C Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension (e.g., summarizing and synthesizing; making textual, personal, and world connections; visualizing). ELA.RC.8B Ask literal, interpretive, evaluative, and universal questions of text. ELA.8.10C Make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions about the ideas in text and their organizational patterns (e.g., proposition-and-support, problem-and-solution, causeeffect, compare-contrast, inductive, deductive, chronological order). ELA.8.9A Analyze works written on the same topic and compare how the authors achieved similar or different purposes, and support using textual evidence.

Learning Targets:

ELA.RC.8D Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding. ELA.8.9A Analyze works written on the same topic and compare how the authors achieved similar or different purposes, and support using textual evidence. ELA.8.10A Summarize the main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas in text succinctly in ways that maintain meaning and logical order. ELA.8.10C Make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions about the ideas in text and their organizational patterns.

All Classes I. Main Idea warm up II. Nonfiction Text A. A Dream of Freedom excerpt 1. summary statement 2. herringbone summary and comparison B. Nelly Bly-female reporter article

All Classes I. Main Idea warm up II. Persuasion and Logical Fallacies B. Logos review and Examples C. Love and Fallacies Short story

Science Benchmarkmodified class schedule Periods 7 and 8 only A Dream of Freedom Read aloud play and comprehension check

Social Studies Benchmark modified class schedule Periods 6 and 5 only A Dream of Freedom play Read aloud play and comprehension check

Off Campus-Substitute Persuasive Text Analysis and Practice