2015

WEEKLY LESSON PLANS

MP Everist Language Arts
Reading Focus: LAFS 8.RL.1,2 Literary Analysis: Character, Motivation, Theme
Writing Focus: LAFS 8.W.1.3 Text Evidence Support in Analyses
Monday 9-07
Content Goal

Language Goal

LABOR DAY
NO SCHOOL

Accountable
Team Task
Activities

Assessments
Modifications

Tuesday 9-08

Wednesday 9-09

Thursday 9-10

Analyze text for main

ideas by identifying
key terms and actions.

Use text features to

better understand text,
and to help clarify
information.

Evaluate fiction for

text evidence of
character traits and
motivation.

Cite text evidence

that most strongly
supports the analysis.

Use context clues to

help define unfamiliar
words.

Know that analogies

make connections
between similar
things, events, etc.
Discuss w/partner how
the analogy in the
quote (p211) relates to
Collection 4 picture.

Analyze character
dialog to clarify
actions and motives.

Understand that
theme is the authors
message and/or
lesson of the story.
Collaborate re text
evidence/rationale
for answers/Cornell
notes.

*Reading responses
*Rev -1.5 p.16 writing
*Model using TFs
*Great Depression clip
*Approaching Adulthood; Marigolds pp.
212-215

*Reading responses
*Rev -1.6 p.17
*Model note-taking
* Marigolds (pp.216220)
HW Read 221-224.

W/partner, discuss key

skills used in finding
main idea and
summarizing.
* Reading responses
*Rev-1.5 p.15-16 read
*Hook- Time capsules
*Common
Assessment
*ATT-summarizing

Work with table

partners on support for
your ideas about
motivation.

Friday 9-11

*Reading responses
* Rev- p.18-19 read
*Model reading
fluency
*Marigolds pp.
225-6 Analyzing
Text

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.