Cheryl Brown-8th grade Reading/Literature Class -Lesson Plans week of February 4, 2013 Periods 2, 4, 5: Pre-AP Reading; Periods 6, 7, 8: Traditional

(Reg.) Reading Homework: At-home nonfiction book project assigned 2/4/13

Monday, 2/4/13 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

Tuesday, 2/5/13
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.

Wednesday, 2/6/13
Learning Targets:
ELA.RC.8C Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension (e.g., summarizing and synthesizing; making textual, personal, and world connections; visualizing). 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.8.3B Compare and contrast the similarities and differences in mythologies from various cultures (e.g., ideas of afterlife, roles and characteristics of deities, purposes of myths).

Thursday, 2/7/13
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

Friday, 2/8/13
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-Scavenger Hunt (All Classes) Periods 2, 4, 5 II. Mythology& Heroes Jour. A. complete reading Perseus myth using I think/I feel/ I believe strategy B. debrief strategy use C. Archetypes in literature-Venn diagram-heroes D. The Heroes Journeyvideo clip Period 6 and 8 II. Mythology and Drama A.-Finish Rewrite of Achilles myth from narrative to drama Period 7 II. Mythology & Drama A. presentations III Mythology& Heroes Jour. A. Read Perseus Mythusing I Think/I Feel /I believe strategy (begin)

I. Warm Up-Dreams poemmetaphors & structure (All Classes) Periods 2, 4, 5 II. Mythology and Heroes Jour. A. re-read Perseus and chart the heroes journey Periods 6 and 8 II. Mythology and Drama A. rehearse and present III. Mythology & Heroes Jour. B. Read Perseus myth using I Think/I Feel/I Believe strategy (begin) Period 7 II. Mythology and Heroes Jour. A. Read Perseus myth using I Think/I Feel/I Believe strategy (finish) B. Debrief Strategy Use C. Archetypes in literature-Venn diagram-heroes D. The Heroes Journeyvideo clip

I. Warm Up-review based on STAAR boot camp passage (All Classes)

I. Warm Up- review based on STAAR boot camp passage (All Classes)

I. Warm Up-review archetype (All Classes) Periods 2, 4, 5 Reviewmythology/drama/create a academic vocabulary foldable (Test Tuesday, 2/12/13) Periods 6, 7, 8 Boot Camp-STAAR passage

Periods 2, 4, 5 II. Creation Myth. Comp. Native American Loo Wit the Fire Keeper and Greek Myth.-Prometheus Periods 6, 8 II.Mythology & Heroes Jour. B. Read Perseus myth using I Think/I Feel/I Believe strategy (finish) C. Debrief Strategy use Period 7 II. Mythology& Heroes Jour. A. re-read Perseus and chart the heroes journey

Periods 2, 4, 5 Boot Camp-STAAR passage Periods 6, 8

II. Mythology and Heroes Jour. B. Archetypes in literature-Venn diagram-heroes C. The Heroes Journeyvideo clip D. re-read Perseus myth and chart the heroes journey Period 7 Mythology-Comparison Native American-creation "Loo Wit the Fire Keeper and Greek Myth.-Prometheus