Monday -FEBRUARY 15 -No School! Winter Break!
Week of February 15 - 19
TUESDAY -February 16, 2016
8.RV.2.1: Use context to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases.
8.RV.3.1: Use the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in works of literature, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of
specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
WEDNESDAY - February 17, 2016
REMINDER: Of Mice and Men book group will have spelling-vocabulary test tomorrow, 2/19.
https://www.log.gov/collections/todd-and-sonkin-migrant-workers-from-1940-to-1941/articles-and-essays/the-migrant-experience/
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/dust%20bowl%20migration.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowl-mass-exodus-plains/
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_06.html
Critical Standards: (Even though the following standards are reading with nonfiction, this is what we are doing first, but then we are actually producing text like this
for others to read.)
8.RN.2.1: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
8.RN.2.3: Analyze how a text makes connections and distinctions among individuals, events and ideas.
8.RN.3.2: Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key
concept.
8.RN.3.3 Determine an author's perspective or purpose in text, and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or
viewpoints.
FRIDAY -February 19, 2016
for others to read.)
8.RN.2.1: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
8.RN.2.3: Analyze how a text makes connections and distinctions among individuals, events and ideas.
8.RN.3.2: Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key
concept.
8.RN.3.3 Determine an author's perspective or purpose in text, and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or
viewpoints.
Week of February 15 - 19
TUESDAY -February 16, 2016
- Of Mice and Men book group are receiving a list of spelling-vocabulary words. They will split up into groups and find definitions, synonyms, and write each word correctly in a sentence. This will be completed on Google.
- All students will have their summary from Chapter 2 returned to them from The Harvest Gypsies. Students will begin preparation for converting this summary into a reflective summary. Today they will start by typing the handwritten summary in "Pages," on their iPads.
8.RV.2.1: Use context to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases.
8.RV.3.1: Use the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in works of literature, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of
specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
WEDNESDAY - February 17, 2016
- Students will practice AR tests for the books Out of the Dust and Of Mice and Men. After practice, students will complete tests online. (Practice tests can be accessed below notes.)
REMINDER: Of Mice and Men book group will have spelling-vocabulary test tomorrow, 2/19.
- Distribute url's for work with reflective summaries. Begin modeling procedure for reflective summary.
https://www.log.gov/collections/todd-and-sonkin-migrant-workers-from-1940-to-1941/articles-and-essays/the-migrant-experience/
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/dust%20bowl%20migration.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowl-mass-exodus-plains/
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_06.html
Critical Standards: (Even though the following standards are reading with nonfiction, this is what we are doing first, but then we are actually producing text like this
for others to read.)
8.RN.2.1: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
8.RN.2.3: Analyze how a text makes connections and distinctions among individuals, events and ideas.
8.RN.3.2: Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key
concept.
8.RN.3.3 Determine an author's perspective or purpose in text, and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or
viewpoints.
FRIDAY -February 19, 2016
- Give spelling-vocabulary test to Of Mice and Men book group and allow students who wish to go to library to complete, using Google, to do so. (test can be accessed below notes)
- Remaining students will stay in classroom to work on reflective summary.
for others to read.)
8.RN.2.1: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
8.RN.2.3: Analyze how a text makes connections and distinctions among individuals, events and ideas.
8.RN.3.2: Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key
concept.
8.RN.3.3 Determine an author's perspective or purpose in text, and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or
viewpoints.
AR Practice Test/Out of the Dust | |
File Size: | 116 kb |
File Type: | docx |
AR Practice Test/Of Mice ad Men | |
File Size: | 119 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Spell-VocabTEST Of Mice and Men #2 Adv. | |
File Size: | 116 kb |
File Type: | docx |