Due Monday:

It is time for some independent work. If you haven’t already heard, the 8th grade ELA teachers must give a common ACES assignment. Today you will read and annotate an article about the Outer Banks, the location of our upcoming field trip. You will complete an ACES response to a prompt about the article. Here are the details:

Step 1: Take a copy of the  "Rising Seas: Will the Outer Banks survive?" article Also, take a copy of the rubric ACES rubric and the ACES template. ACES response template

Step 2: Thoroughly read and annotate the article. Your prompt for the ACES response is “How do the text features of the article help the reader understand the central idea of the text?” In order to answer this question, you need to know what a text feature is and what the central idea of the text is.

Text features: graphs, diagrams, pictures with captions, subheadings, bold print, etc.

Do not count underlined words as a text feature for this assignment. That was just a glitch with the document.

*AIG students, I expect you to use the shoreline diagram from page 2 as one of your pieces of evidence!

Central idea: Ha! You must figure this one out on your own! You can do it! Writing sentence summaries for each paragraph might help you determine the main idea.

Step 3: Before you start writing your ACES response, read over your rubric carefully to see what is required of you.

Step 4: Look over your ACES template and start writing! Notice on this template that you must supply two pieces of evidence with elaboration. Be specific, thorough, and descriptive in your response.