Cheryl Brown-8th grade Reading-All Classes Lesson Plans Week of September 10-14, 2012

Homework: Weekly at -home reading begins Monday, 9/10/12. (Pre-AP: 90 min., Traditional: 60 min.)
First at-home reading log is due Tuesday, 9/18/12 (Fall Holiday, 9/17/12)
Academic Content Vocabulary Pre-AP and Traditional: plot line, exposition, initiating incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution Monday, 9/10/12 Tuesday, 9/11/12 Wednesday, 9/12/12 Thursday, 9/13/12 Friday, 9/14/12
Learning Targets:
ELA.RC.8A Establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon desired outcome to enhance comprehension Goal: Students will use the data from the B.O.Y. common assessment to establish long and short term reading goals.

Learning Targets:
ELA.RC.8A Establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon desired outcome to enhance comprehension Goal: Students will use the data from the B.O.Y. common assessment to establish long and short term reading goals.

Learning Targets:
ELA.RC.8A Establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon desired outcome to enhance comprehension. ELA.RC.8D Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding ELA.RC.8C Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension ELA.8.6A Summarize plot and analyze linear plot developments (e.g., conflict, rising action, falling action, resolution/denouement, subplots) to determine whether and how conflicts are resolved.

Learning Targets:
ELA.RC.8D Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding ELA.RC.8C Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension ELA.RC.8A Establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon desired outcome to enhance comprehension ELA.8.6A Summarize plot and analyze linear plot developments (e.g., conflict, rising action, falling action, resolution/denouement, subplots) to determine whether and how conflicts are resolved. ELA.8.3C Explain how the values and beliefs of particular characters are affected by the historical and cultural setting of the literary work.

Learning Targets:
ELA.RC.8D Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding ELA.RC.8C Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension ELA.RC.8A Establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon desired outcome to enhance comprehension. ELA.8.1A Adjust fluency (rate, accuracy, expression, appropriate phrasing) when reading aloud grade-level text based on the reading purpose and the nature of the text.

Begin-District Common Assessment-Beginning of the Year (B.O.Y)

Complete- District Common Assessment-B.O.Y

Pre-AP (per. 2,4,5) Do Now: Silent Read.-6 min. Quick Write: What causes fear? Close Reading: Read aloud The Elevatorshort story Traditional (per. 6,7,8) Do Now: Silent Read.-6 min. Quick Write: What do you fear? Pre-Reading: The First Day of Schoolreview plot line Close Reading: Read aloud The Elevatorshort story

Pre-AP (per 2,4,5) Finish read aloud and close reading of The Elevator -plot story events Traditional (per. 6,7,8) Continue reading The Elevator

Pre-AP (per 2,4,5) Mini Lesson Types of Conflict Review Introduce/Review Science Fiction Genre The Pedestrian-short story Begin reading Focus: The relationship between conflict and the authors point of view in fiction Traditional (per. 6,7,8) Finish read aloud and close reading of The Elevator -plot story events Mini LessonTypes of Conflict-review

Essential Question: How does an author use plot to create a desired effect? Strategies to include: T/P/S Read it like you mean it

(Last weeks lesson plans were modified to allow opportunity for classroom library book check-out and classroom silent reading. The goal was to ensure that all students were able to locate a just right book before being graded on classroom and at-home reading; and to establish and practice expectations for sustained silent reading. )