1. Answer: a
Mrs. Pines Room 105 8th Grade ELA Daily Activity: Standard English Monday 3/19/18
He gets sarcasm from his students all the time so he’s good at ignoring it.
Think About It!
Directions: Answer the following prompt using details from personal experiences or other knowledge obtained from your academic studies in a well-developed paragraph. Use a turn around sentence.
1. What is the meaning of the word sarcasm as it is used in the sentence?
a. a remark indicating mockery or annoyance
b. a remark that is meant to be taken literally
c. a remark that indicates confusion or skepticism
1. Using inference skills, analyze the main point of the photograph. For a complete and correct response, consider these points.
d. an observation that is silly or childish
its history
its interesting features
why was it created
New York Daily News

2. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Unit IV Outcomes and Reading Goals
Analyze the elements of persuasion and argument.
Use standard grammar conventions in written and spoken language.
Reading Goals:
Describe characters and their relationships.
Identify conflicts and influences
Analyze persuasive elements, culture, and behavior via different mediums
Make inferences and predictions based on human behavior
Essential Question: What effect does your perceptions have on your reality?

3. Agenda 3/19/2018 Daily Activity/Discussion 5 mins.
Silent Reading 15 mins.
Anticipatory Set/Discussion 5 mins.
Elements of Persuasion Cont. 5 mins.
Holocaust Article/Discussion 40 mins.
Four Corners 10 mins.
Discussion Questions 20 mins.

4. Anticipatory Set

5. Answer: b
Mrs. Pines Room 105 8th Grade ELA Daily Activity: Standard English Tuesday 3/20/18
2. Which statement best describes the contrast between the garden and the wind in the second
Butterfly by D.H. Lawrence
Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, strong beyond the garden wall!
stanza of Lawrence’s “Butterfly”?
Butterfly, why do you settle on my shoe, and sip the dirt on my shoe,
A. The garden is warm; the wind is cold.
Lifting your veined wings, lifting them? big white butterfly!
B. The garden is soft; the wind is strong.
Already it is October, and the wind blows strong to the sea
C. The garden is colorful; the wind is white.
from the hills where snow must have fallen, the wind is polished with snow.
D. The garden is safe; the wind is dangerous
Here in the garden, with red geraniums, it is warm, it is warm
but the wind blows strong to sea-ward, white butterfly, content on my shoe!
Think About It!
Directions: Answer the following prompt using details from personal experiences or other knowledge obtained from your academic studies in a well-developed paragraph. Use a turn around sentence. Turn in the all of the Think About it! Prompts on Friday!
Will you go, will you go from my warm house?
Will you climb on your big soft wings, black-dotted,
as up an invisible rainbow, an arch
till the wind slides you sheer from the arch-crest
and in a strange level fluttering you go out to sea-ward, white speck!
2. Explain how Lawrence uses imagery to contrast two different settings in lines 4–7
Farewell, farewell, lost soul!
you have melted in the crystalline distance,
it is enough! I saw you vanish into air
of the first poem, “Butterfly.”

6. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Unit IV Outcomes and Reading Goals
Analyze the elements of persuasion and argument.
Use standard grammar conventions in written and spoken language.
Reading Goals:
Describe characters and their relationships.
Identify conflicts and influences
Analyze persuasive elements, culture, and behavior via different mediums
Make inferences and predictions based on human behavior
Essential Question: What effect does your perceptions have on your reality?

7. Agenda 3/20/2018 Daily Activity/Discussion 10 mins.
Silent Reading 15 mins.
Anticipatory Set/Discussion 5 mins.
Continue with Persuasive Notes 10 mins.
“Anne Frank Bio” 30 mins.
Read Like a Reader/Read Like a Writer 30 mins
Quiz Review!
Quiz on Persuasive Techniques, “Holocaust,” and “Anne Frank” biography tomorrow!

8. Anticipatory Set

9. Answer: a
Mrs. Pines Room 105 8th Grade ELA Daily Activity: Standard English Wednesday 3/21/18
The Butterfly by Arun Kolatkar
B. elusive.
There is no story behind it.
C. delicate.
It is split like a second.
D. mysterious.
It hinges around itself.
Think About It!
It has no future.
Directions: Answer the following prompt using details from personal experiences or other knowledge obtained from your academic studies in a well-developed paragraph. Use a turn around sentence. Turn in all of your Think About It! Prompts on Friday!
It is pinned down to no past.
It’s a pun on the present.
It’s a yellow butterfly.
It has taken these wretched hills
under its wings.
Just a pinch of yellow,
3. Analyze the picture to the left. What is its purpose? LIFE AFTER THE HOLOCAUST: BLANKA ROTHSCHILD
it opens before it closes
and closes before it o
where is it?
3. In line 2 of Kolatkar’s “The Butterfly,” the phrase “split like a second” suggests that the butterfly is
-History
-Purpose
A. quick.

10. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Unit IV Outcomes and Reading Goals
Analyze the elements of persuasion and argument.
Use standard grammar conventions in written and spoken language.
Reading Goals:
Describe characters and their relationships.
Identify conflicts and influences
Analyze persuasive elements, culture, and behavior via different mediums
Make inferences and predictions based on human behavior
Essential Question: What effect does your perceptions have on your reality?

11. Agenda 3/21/2018 Daily Activity/Discussion 5 mins.
Silent Reading 15 mins.
Anticipatory Set 10 mins.
Quiz on Persuasive Techniques, “Holocaust” and “Anne Frank” biography.
Socratic Seminar

12. Anticipatory Set

13. Mrs. Pines Room 105 8th Grade ELA Daily Activity: Standard English
Mrs. Pines Room 105 8th Grade ELA Daily Activity: Standard English Thursday 3/22/18
4. The “volumes of eyewitness reports.” In this sentence, volumes means
Think About It!
A. a set of books.
Directions: Answer the following prompt using details from personal experiences or other knowledge obtained from your academic studies in a well-developed paragraph. Use a turn around sentence. Turn in all of your Think About it! prompts on Friday!
B. loudness of sound.
C. a large amount.
D. space occupied.
4. Why are victims of the Holocaust often called refugees?
Answer: c

14. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Unit IV Outcomes and Reading Goals
Analyze the elements of persuasion and argument.
Use standard grammar conventions in written and spoken language.
Reading Goals:
Describe characters and their relationships.
Identify conflicts and influences
Analyze persuasive elements, culture, and behavior via different mediums
Make inferences and predictions based on human behavior
Essential Question: What effect does your perceptions have on your reality?

15. Agenda 3/22/2018 Daily Activity/Discussion 5 mins.
Silent Reading 15 mins.
Anticipatory Set 5 mins.
Read and Discuss Scenes 1-3 of Act One Diary of A Young Girl 30 mins.
Socratic Seminar (?)30 mins.
Lesson Check 10 mins.

16. Anticipatory Set

17. Mrs. Pines Room 105 8th Grade ELA Daily Activity: Standard English/Critical Thinking Friday 3/23/18
5. Authors occasionally put quotation marks around phrases like “the monster” to emphasize that A. it is a direct quotation. B. they are mythical creature. C. the word is used in an unusual way. D. people commonly refer to a character in this manner Think About It! Directions: Answer the following prompt using details from personal experiences or other knowledge obtained from your academic studies in a well-developed paragraph. Use a turn around sentence. Turn in all of your Think About it! prompts on Friday! 5. What is your greatest fear in the present state of our society?
Answer: d

18. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Unit IV Outcomes and Reading Goals
Analyze the elements of persuasion and argument.
Use standard grammar conventions in written and spoken language.
Reading Goals:
Describe characters and their relationships.
Identify conflicts and influences
Analyze persuasive elements, culture, and behavior via different mediums
Make inferences and predictions based on human behavior
Essential Question: What effect does your perceptions have on your reality?

19. Agenda Daily Activity/Discussion 5 mins. Silent Reading 15 mins.
Anticipatory Set 5 mins.
Practice LEAP Test (Computer Lab) 60 mins.

20. NO Anticipatory Set