Cheryl Brown-8th grade Reading-Lesson Plan week of 12/17/12

Periods 3, 5,7: At-Home Reading Project Due: Mon., Dec. 17, 2012 Periods 2, 4, 6, 8: At-Home Reading Project Due: Tues., Dec. 18, 2012
Monday, 12/17/12 Learning Targets:

Tuesday, 12/18/12
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.8F Make intertextual links among and across texts, including other media (e.g., film, play, music, print media), and provide textual evidence. ELA.8.17C Write responses to literary or expository texts that demonstrate the writing skills for multi-paragraph essays and provide sustained evidence from the text using quotations when appropriate.

Wednesday, 12/19/12
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. ELA.8.5A Analyze how different playwrights characterize their protagonists and antagonists through the dialogue and staging of their plays.

Thursday, 12/20/12
Learning Targets:

Friday, 12/21/12
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.8D Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding. ELA.8.6B Analyze how the central characters qualities influence the theme of a fictional work and resolution of the central conflict. 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.

Todays schedule modified

Periods 1, 3, 5,7 Semester Exam

Regular Schedule Periods 2, 4, 5 The Outsiders Op-ed essay-finish self and peer edit final draft sharing Individual STAAR Goal Conferences

Todays schedule modified

Periods, 2, 4, 6, 8 Regular Schedule All Classes off campus Play-The Gift of the Magi Semester Exam

At-Home Reading Project is due todayPeriods 3,5,7 only

Periods 6, 7, 8 The Outsiders Mini-lesson conflict View videonote conflict and conflict resolution At-home reading project is due todayPeriods 2, 4, 6, 8 only

Regular Schedule Periods 2, 4, 5 The Outsiders View video- noting conflict and conflict resolution Individual STAAR Goal Conferences Periods 6,7, 8 The Outsiders Finish viewing video -note conflict and conflict resolution Individual STAAR Goal Conferences