Cheryl Brown-8th grade Reading/Literature Class -Lesson Plans week of February 11, 2013 Periods 2, 4, 5: Pre-AP Reading; Periods

6, 7, 8: Traditional (Reg.) Reading Monday, 2/11/13 Tuesday, 2/12/13 Wednesday, 2/13/13 Thursday, 2/14/13 Friday, 2/15/13
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. Reading ELA.8.10A Summarize the main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas in text succinctly in ways that maintain meaning and logical order.

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.8.10D 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

Learning Targets:

I. Warm up-advertising (All Classes) Periods 2, 4 II. STAAR Review/Prep. A. Update STAAR goals chart B. Boot Camp-Passage (Not done last week) III. Mythology/Drama Review Period 5 (No warm up) I. Library Day II. Mythology/Drama Review Periods 2-5-Test Tomorrow Period 6 and 8 II. Mythology & Heros Jour. A. Perseus-read using I think/feel/believe strategy Period 7 II. Mythology& Heros Jour. A. Perseus-finish charting the heros journey B. The Longshots-view video clips-heros journey

I. Warm Up-advertising (All Classes) Periods 2, 4, 5 II. Test/Mythology & Drama III. Nonfiction Intro. importance why study? types Venn fiction/nonfiction IV. Nonfiction Research using the internet-how to Periods 6,7, 8 III. STAAR Boot Camp Passage (Not done last week) II. Mythology/Drama Review (Test Thursday) AT HOME BOOK PROJECTparent notification due today

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. 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.8.10D 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.8.10C 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).

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

I. Warm Up-the argument leading questions (All Classes)

I. Warm Up the argument and logic (All Classes)

Periods 2, 4, 5
II. Reading Nonfictionfeatures organization purpose relevance summary of Anchor text-Greensboro Four Independent Activityanalyzing self selected nonfiction article Periods 6,7,8

Periods 2, 4, 5 Computer LabLocating nonfiction articles for analysis Periods 6, 7, 8 II. Test/Mythology Drama III. III. Nonfiction Intro.
importance why study? types Venn fiction/nonfiction IV. Nonfiction Research using the internet

I. Warm Up-Dream KeeperL. Hughes (All Classes) All Classes I. Persuasion Review (A type of nonfiction) importance/why study? A. MLK-I have a dreamvideo clip B. SOAPSTone-analyzing persuasive text

Computer LabLocating non-fiction articles for analysis

(Last weeks lesson plans modified to add Library day Friday, 2/8/13-periods 2, 4, 6, 7, 8)