Cheryl Brown-8th grade Reading/Literature Class -Lesson Plans week of February 18, 2013 Periods 2, 4, 5: Pre-AP Reading; Periods

6, 7, 8: Traditional (Reg.) Reading Monday, 2/18/13 Tuesday, 2/19/13 Wednesday, 2/20/13 Thursday, 2/21/13 Friday, 2/22/13
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.8.7A Analyze passages in well-known speeches for the authors use of literary devices and word and phrase choice (e.g., aphorisms, epigraphs) to appeal to the audience ELA.8.10B Distinguish factual claims from commonplace assertions and opinions and evaluate inferences from their logic in text.

Learning Targets:

I. Warm up-vocabulary practice-All classes Periods 2, 4, 5 II. Understanding Nonfiction A. Analyzing a speech for persuasive devices (group activity) begin

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.8.7A Analyze passages in well-known speeches for the authors use of literary devices and word and phrase choice (e.g., aphorisms, epigraphs) to appeal to the audience ELA.8.10B Distinguish factual claims from commonplace assertions and opinions and evaluate inferences from their logic in text.

Learning Targets:

I. Warm Up-vocabulary practice-All Classes Periods 2, 4, 5 II. Understanding Nonfiction A. Analyzing a speech for persuasive devices (group activity) finish and present Periods 6, 7, 8 II. Understanding Nonfiction A. Analyzing a speech for persuasive devices (partner activity)-finish and present

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.8.10C 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.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 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.

All Classes

I. Warm Up logos review

Periods 6, 7, 8 II. Understanding Nonfiction A. Vocabulary preview activity B. Paraphrase activity C. Analyzing a speech for persuasive devices (partner activity) begin

Early Dismissal No Warm Up All Classes I. Understanding Nonfiction A. Greensboro Four Article read using SOAPStone

II. STAAR Boot Camp Passage # 1 Review & Corrections

All Classes I. Warm Up-pathos review II. Understanding Nonfiction A. Greensboro Four Play assign parts and read aloud