Week 3 in Review and a Forecast of Week 4

Students,

 Here is a brief recap of our learning and activities completed during the third week of school and a preview of what’s to come next week.

Review of Week 3 

1) We reviewed questions 1-5 of the Unit 1 Pre-Assessment assessment, examining each question and locating and discussing evidences used to support the “best answer.”

*Applied Common Core standard RL.8., which requires students to cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

*Strategies applied: 

The Constructive and Deconstructive strategies

The Process of Elimination Testing strategy

  

*Primary Word communicated: Being Metacognitive and becoming an active learner

2) We also completed our Multiple Intelligence activities. Each class learned of its preferred learning styles.

 Week 4 Preview

1) Benchmark to master:

*RL.8.2 analyze theme and symbols across genres and  determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.

*Texts: "Gil's Furniture Gift Bought and Sold" and "Pandora's Box."

2) Continue with Unit 1 Pre-Assessment Review

3) District Reading Benchmark will be administered 9/12 &13 - Testing will continue for math and science from the 14th thru the 18th.