Lesson Plans 9/16-920
Monday
DGP warm up
Lesson 5 Vocabulary - homographs
Discuss The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Distribute Rebound novels
HW: Prepare for Friday's vocabulary quiz & bring novel daily
Tuesday
DGP warm up
Kwame Alexander video clip - "Words of the page onto the stage"
Novel vocabulary pages 1-201 (complete throughout reading the novel)
Begin reading Rebound
HW: Prepare for Friday's vocabulary quiz & bring novel daily
Wednesday
DGP warm up
Vocabulary 5.2 and 5.3
Continue reading w/ comprehension questions
HW: Prepare for Friday's vocabulary quiz & bring novel daily
Thursday
DGP warm up
Continue reading w/ comprehension questions
HW: Prepare for Friday's vocabulary quiz & bring novel daily
Friday
DGP warm up
Lesson 5 Vocabulary Quiz
Assign poem from the novel to perform
Continue reading w/ comprehension questions
HW: Bring novel daily
Standards:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.8.1]
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. [L.8.2]
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on Grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. [L.8.4]
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of Grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RL.8.10]