November 30, 2017

Warm-Up	Answer the questions for the poem How Things Work. Please get a Literature Book from the back bookshelf. If you would like a speaking part, please sign up here	RL 7.3- Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of ideas. RL7.9- Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Mini-Lesson	Mood/ Tone- Scary Mary A Christmas Carol Overview
Work Time	A Christmas Carol- Prologue and Scene 1 Graphic Organizer Compare/Contrast Drama and Video Clip	RL 7.3- Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact RL 7.5- Analyze how a drama's or poem's form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning RL7.7- Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium
Homework	Victorian London Research- Due Friday!	W 7.7- Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.