2014

WEEKLY LESSON PLANS

MP Everist Language Arts
Reading Focus: LAFS.8.RI.1.1/1.2, 1.3, 2.4 Analyze Text: Class Novel: The Life of Pi; FAIR Assessment; Individualized iReady Lessons
Writing Focus: LAFS.8.W.1- Summarizing (MI and SDs); Academic Vocabulary in Context; Citing Text Evidence
Monday 12-08

Tuesday 12-09

Wednesday 12-10

Thursday 12-11

Friday 12-12

Content Goal

Use text features to

make connections
inferences, and
predictions.

Show vocabulary and

fluency levels through
Winter FAIR
assessment.

Show reading
competency levels
through Winter FAIR
assessment.

Identify and analyze

the main ideas and
supporting details of
Life of Pi, chapter
one.

Increase reading
comprehension
abilities by mastering
lessons (80%) on
iReady.

Language Goal

Articulate in writing:
Observation, Question,
Connection, Inference,
and Reflection.

Interpret unfamiliar
words using context
clues and decoding
skills.

Record reading scores

on passages; selfmonitor progress.

Use Cornell notetaking system to

record key ideas/SDs.

Record objectives &

activities, and selfmonitor progress.

Accountable
Team Task

Share your Picture

Walk with your table
partners.

W/table partner,
discuss successful
reading strategies used
in taking assessment.

Discuss passage and

text analysis challenges
and skills used w/table
mates.

Collaborate with
partners on chapter
notes, close reading
questions.

Summarize todays
skills learned and
share with table
mates.

Hook
Modeling

*Hook Life of Pi clip

*Model Using text
features to jumpstart
our novel
* RevItUp Lesson
6.1 - Read story.
* Life of Pi background info *read
authors note -vii-xii.

*Hook Schmoop clip

*Model Process of
elimination; using
logic & reasoning.

*Hook Winning races

*Model Language
nuances; multiple
meanings

*Hook Goal lines

*Model Using
context clues to
ascertain meaning

*RevItUp Lesson
6.2, Explain Yourself:
1-5
*FAIR data checks

*IReady -individual
online reading learning
plan and practice.
*new FAIR goals

*Hook - The San

Diego Zoo
*Model Notetaking skills
*RevItUup 6.2 6-10
*Reading strategies
Cornell/pair-share
*Note-taking
shortcuts

Activities

Assessments
Modifications

*Review reading
levels, individual
reading goals to
year-end

Observation of student participation; class work; research, reading & writing practice, quizzes and tests.
For ESOL and ESE: clarify and reduce class work and homework assignments, give added time