7+8+SALSA+Reading

===DRIVING QUESTION: What do the best writers, readers, and thinkers do and how can we be like them? ===

**POWER STANDARDS:**
Common Assessment: Test on Main Idea and Cover Design Project ||
 * 1. Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Common Assessment: Prezi, Glogster Digital Poster Project on Connections ||
 * 9. Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.


 * 2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text. Common Assessment: Visualization Narratives and Monologues ||

Common Assessment: Prezi, Glogster Digital Poster Project on Connections ||
 * 3. Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).

Common Assessment: Drafting of Formal Summary ||
 * 2. Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.

Common Assessment: Key Words and Questions Standardized Test. ||
 * 1. Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.