English 8: Week
of December 8- December 12
Informational Reading Unit:
This week we will continue our Informational Reading Unit. Students will be
reading many informational passages and completing questions on schoology in
class. If students are absent, they can check under their course for the
article and questions and complete work at home. Also, on schoology I’ve posted in pages the
unit outcomes.
Here
are the “I Can Statements” we will be
focusing on in this unit:
1.
I can determine central ideas or themes of a
text and analyze their development and summarize key supporting details and
ideas.
2.
I can analyze how and why individuals, events,
and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
3.
I can analyze how two or more texts address
similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the
approaches the author takes.
4.
I can
read and comprehend complex literary information texts independently and
proficiently.
Writing: We will be completing
two quick writes in our writer’s notebook this week to prepare us for a
research informational comparison essay.
Grammar: Each day at the beginning of class, students will be answering
questions in their everyday editing part of the writer’s notebook as bell work.
The questions are formatted like questions from standardized tests on grammar
and mechanics.
Novel Reading: Students should be reading at least three times each week for
15-20 minutes outside of English class. Students need to be working towards
completing the reading of at least 12 novels this year!
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