tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20870119080493858222012-02-16T02:16:55.205-05:00This blog is intended for 8th grade students and their parents at Country Club Middle School in Miami Florida. Questions? Please email markfield@dadeschools.netMr. Fieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233218285711034742noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087011908049385822.post-37212317679199664272011-10-30T08:05:00.000-04:002011-10-30T08:06:00.485-04:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:180%;">Book: McDougal Littell Literature</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:180%;">Title: "Educating Sons" and "The First Americans"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:180%;">Page: 982</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333ff;">Reading Process Focus</span>: vocabulary, context clues, word phrase relationships, compare &amp; contrast texts, identify &amp; analyze organizational patterns and text features.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333ff;">Literary Analysis Focus</span>: variety of genres, analyze historical context</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333ff;">Writing Focus</span>: formulate a plan and draft a persuasive essay, demonstrate persuasive writing that is is used for the purpose of influencing the reader</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;color:#3333ff;">You will:</span></div><div><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">explore what is important in these texts</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">identify and analyze the influence of historical context</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">read and interpret a speech and a letter</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">identify and analyze elements of an argument</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">identify and analyze persuasive techniques</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">identify and analyze comparisons and contrasts</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">identify and analyze irony</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">build vocabulary</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">use antonyms as context clues to determine word meaning</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">use the writing process to write a persuasive essay</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">analyze a student model of persuasive writing</span></li></ol><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><b>Grades in grade book for week one:</b></span></div><div><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">Notes uploaded online</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">Persuasive essay uploaded online</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">Literary selection test in class</span></li></ol></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">Watch:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><h1 id="watch-headline-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; max-height: 1.1363em; line-height: 1.1363em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; color:transparent;"><span id="eow-title" class="" dir="ltr" title="The Forgotten Founding Father - Chief Canassatego" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj2sY_4R4Sw" style="font-weight: normal; ">The Forgotten Founding Father - Chief Canassatego</a></span></span></h1><div><span id="eow-title" class="" dir="ltr" title="The Forgotten Founding Father - Chief Canassatego" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;color:initial;">Listen:</span></div><div><span id="eow-title" class="" dir="ltr" title="The Forgotten Founding Father - Chief Canassatego" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;color:initial;"><a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/nativeamericans/chiefcanasatego.htm">http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/nativeamericans/chiefcanasatego.htm</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><b>Due Friday online:</b></span></div><div><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><b>Notes: vocabulary, compare and contrast analysis, organizational patterns and text features, genre and historical text commentary (done in class, then typed online)</b></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><b>Essay: Persuasive Compare and Contrast Essay</b></span></li></ol></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><br /></div></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2087011908049385822-3721231767919966427?l=field8.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mr. Fieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233218285711034742noreply@blogger.com0