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Common Core/ NM Content Standards: Craft and Structure Literacy.RL8.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text Key Ideas and Details Literacy. RL.8.1 Analyze what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drown from the text Writing Standard Literacy .W.8.1b Support claims with relevant evidence. Demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text.
Essential Question(s): How do I support claims by using relevant evidence from the text?
Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.): Ninth grader will be reading a different text, Greater Than Angels
Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Reading strategies: asking questions as you read, rereading for comprehension, looking for main ideas and supporting ideas; Post reading strategies: answering questions that ask students to recall explicit ideas and infer implicit ideas, summarizing. Writing strategies: using examples and quotes to support ideas Editing and revising: students have used a graphic organizer to find mistakes in grammar, punctuation and spelling and correct those mistakes. Resources/Materials Because of Winn-Dixie Greater Than Angels
Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: Do Now checks for understanding of the previous days lesson. Questions check for understanding of each chapter. This Week: Students will complete a five-paragraph essay. Time allotted MONDAY Learning TargetPresidents Day Lesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) Due-
TUESDAY Learning TargetStudents will review and revise worksheets from Winn Dixie 15-19
Students will cite evidence from a text to support claims by writing an essay about Winn Dixie.
Students will write an essay showing life lessons Opal learns from meeting various people in Because of Winn Dixie. Students will review how to use transitions in an essay. Students will include an introductory paragraph, two body paragraphs that include a topic sentence, supporting details (examples and quotes), transitions between paragraphs and a conclusion.
Students will use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify relationships among ideas by putting transitions between paragraphs in their essays.
WEDNESDAY Students will read chapters 20-26 and demonstrate understanding of main ideas, both explicit and implied ideas by writing answers to questions and sharing ideas in a discussion. Students will analyze the development of a theme over the course of the text by answering questions about how a major theme is expressed in chapter 21.
THURSDAY Students will write imagined narratives (stories) that incorporate themes from Winn Dixie, dialogue, conflict and resolution, symbolism and similes.
FRIDAY Learning TargetStudents will determine words and phrases in an informational text and find main ideas by defining challenge words in TFK and by answering questions.
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