Cheryl Brown-8th grade Reading/Literature Class -Lesson Plans week of March 25, 2013 Periods 2, 4, 5: Pre-AP Reading; Periods

6, 7, 8: Traditional (Regular) Reading

Monday, 3/25/13 Learning Targets:
ELA.8.2B Use context (within a sentence and in larger sections of text) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words, ambiguous words, or words with novel meanings. ELA.8.10A Summarize the main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas in text succinctly in ways that maintain meaning and logical order ELA.8.10C Make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions about the ideas in text and their organizational patterns. ELA.8.11B Describe and analyze the use of such rhetorical and logical fallacies as loaded terms, caricatures, leading questions, false assumptions, and incorrect premises in persuasive texts

Tuesday, 3/26/13 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 ELA.8.10B Distinguish factual claims from commonplace assertions and opinions and evaluate inferences

Wednesday, 3/27/13 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.8.10B Distinguish factual claims from commonplace assertions and opinions and evaluate inferences ELA.RC.8C Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension (e.g., summarizing and synthesizing; making textual, personal, and world connections; visualizing).

Thursday, 3/28/13 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 ELA.RC.8C Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension (e.g., summarizing and synthesizing; making textual, personal, and world connections; visualizing).

Friday, 3/29/13 Learning Targets:

HOLIDAY-No School
Next Week 8th Grade STAAR Testing Begins:
STAAR Math- Mon., 4/1 STAAR Reading-Wed., 4/3

All Classes I. STAAR Review Poetry A.Butterfly poem TPCASTT B. multiple choice questions

All Classes I. STAAR Review-Literary Elements A. Passage read aloud and review questions

All Classes I. STAAR Review-Literary Elements A. Passage-independent practice

All Classes I. Spring Benchmark and TEKS A. independent review and corrections