Cheryl Brown-8th grade Reading/Literature Class -Lesson Plans week of April 8, 2013 Periods 2, 4, 5: Pre-AP Reading; Periods 6, 7, 8: Traditional

(Regular) Reading Weekly Reading Homework

Log Due Monday, 4/15/13

Monday, 4/8/13 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.RC.8C Reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension (e.g., summarizing and synthesizing; making textual, personal, and world connections; visualizing). ELA.RC.8A Establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others desired outcome to enhance comprehension. ELA.8.3C Explain how the values and beliefs of particular characters are affected by the historical and cultural setting of the literary work.

Tuesday, 4/9/13 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.8.10A Summarize the main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas in text succinctly in ways that maintain meaning and logical order

Wednesday 4/10/13 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.8.1A Adjust fluency (rate, accuracy, expression, appropriate phrasing) when reading aloud grade-level text based on the reading purpose and the nature of the text. 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.RC.8A Establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others desired outcome to enhance comprehension.

Thursday, 4/11/13 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.RC.8A Establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others desired outcome to enhance comprehension. ELA.8.1A Adjust fluency (rate, accuracy, expression, appropriate phrasing) when reading aloud grade-level text based on the reading purpose and the nature of the text. ELA.8.6A Summarize plot and analyze linear plot developments (e.g., conflict, rising action, falling action, resolution/denouement, subplots) to determine whether and how conflicts are resolved.

Friday, 4/12/13 Learning Targets: 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.8.1A Adjust fluency (rate, accuracy, expression, appropriate phrasing) when reading aloud grade-level text based on the reading purpose and the nature of the text. ELA.8.6A Summarize plot and analyze linear plot developments (e.g., conflict, rising action, falling action, resolution/denouement, subplots) to determine whether and how conflicts are resolved

Off Campus- Substitute All Classes The House on Mango Street excerpts and reader response activities All Classes I. Warm Up-Silent Reading II. Literature Circle Roles A. Cathy Queen of Cats 1. Discussion Director 2. Partner discussion 3. whole group debrief III. The Miracle WorkerPre-reading A. Helen Keller-KWLW B. Authors Biography C. Read It Like You Mean It-drama All Classes I. Warm Up-Silent Reading II. The Miracle Worker begin reading 1. connecting conflict and Character-activity

All Classes: I. Warm Up-Silent Reading II. Literature Circle Roles A. The House on Mango St. Summarizer and Illustrator III. The Miracle WorkerPre-reading A. Deaf/Blind/MuteActivity B. Sign Language activity

All Classes I. Warm Up-Silent Reading II. The Miracle Worker-read using literature circles 1. read assigned pages 2. complete roles 3. group discussion 4. whole group debrief