Week of August 21st

This week we are wrapping up our inquiry into the connections between identity and race.  Later this week we will begin exploring theme in memoirs and working on our paragraph formatting.  

Homework:  Read for 30+ minutes daily, complete vocabulary homework, study vocabulary words

Unit of Inquiry: Who Am I?

Exploring one's identity/character and actions allows one to participate, empathize and be a contributing member of a community.

Learning Targets:  

I can understand, analyze and summarize a text.

I can identify the themes within a literary text.

Standards Addressed

RI8.1 → Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

RI8.2 → Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.

RI8.3 → Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).   

RI8.4 → Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.