1. Bell Work – You will need to come in quietly and get right to work
Bell Work – You will need to come in quietly and get right to work! If you talk, you lose your quiz!!
Finish your vocabulary quiz. Pick up your answer sheet and the quiz in the bins. You have up to 10 minutes after the bell rings.
Those who are finished with the quiz: Take out (or borrow) a highlighter and highlight the quotations you used in your answers to yesterday’s questions and paragraph. This will determine your score for yesterday’s work. If you need to revise your answers in order to correct what you did, please do so.

2. Today’s objective:
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.

3. Today’s Instructions
In your group, read each question carefully and discuss the answer as well as find and include in your answer specific support from the chapter to quote and support the idea.
Each student must write at least one complete sentence in his/her composition book/folder for each question with quotations included and highlighted.
You have 30 minutes. Anything not finished becomes homework.

4. Instructions for Quick Write:
In your composition book, write a paragraph answering the following prompt:
Choose two paragraphs or larger portions of this lesson’s text excerpt (pp.4-14) and analyze how they develop and refine one of Grandin’s claims about autism and animal behavior.