GOALS FOR WEEK 1
By the end of this week, you will:
By the end of this week, you will:
- Understand the goals and requirements of this course.
- Get to know your classmates and your teacher and how to email them appropriately.
- Understand what textbooks, materials, and online systems you need to obtain for this class.
- Take a variety of diagnostic tests to make sure you are in the right level.
- Understand yourself better as a student.
- Learn about the 3 types of sentences and 3 types of sentence structure problems.
- Begin work on a cause-effect essay.
- Learn academic vocabulary from our novel and textbooks.
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MONDAY
First day of classes: -Review syllabus -Welcome presentation -Review website -Discuss study plan for Animal Farm -Human Treasure Hunt -In-class summary-response writing diagnostic HOMEWORK -Buy textbooks at bookstore and set up online systems -Review syllabus to see if you have any questions -Start to read Animal Farm pp 1-36 and work on Homework 1, due Tuesday |
TUESDAY
-Name game -Diagnostic grammar and sentence structure tests -Sentence structure review (handout) HOMEWORK -BRING LAPTOPS tomorrow! -Buy textbooks at bookstore and set up online systems -Start to read Animal Farm pp 1-36 and work on Homework 1, due Tuesday -Get a notebook for your class journal, pick an article to read and respond to, and start to write this week's entry (at least 25 sentences) |
WEDNESDAY
-Warm-up: Read-around -Discuss sample diagnostic essay -Diagnostic reading test -Review causatives -Take Myers-Briggs exam and discuss results HOMEWORK -Send me an email at [email protected] with your Myers-Briggs personality type and tell me if the description fit your personality or not. Also describe how this information could affect you as a student. -Buy textbooks at bookstore and set up online systems -Journals due Friday. -Start to read Animal Farm pp 1-36 and work on Homework 1, due Tuesday |
THURSDAY
-Warm-up: Summary review -Sentence structure review -Transition word review: GD p. 211-212 and handout -LAR Chapter 1: Reading 1 -Introduce cause-effect essays (handout) and assignment HOMEWORK -Pick a topic for your cause-effect essay and bring your laptop to class tomorrow -Start to read Animal Farm pp 1-36 and work on Homework 1, due Tuesday -Journals due Friday. |
FRIDAY
.-Warm-up -Hand out and explain Reading Roles assignment -Journal #1 due -GD: Chapter 12, p. 214 and 233 -LAR Chapter 1: Reading 2 -LAW: Cause-effect essays, Example 2 HOMEWORK -Start to read Animal Farm pp 1-36 and work on Homework 1 and reading role job, due Tuesday -Develop your cause-effect essay; first draft due Wednesday |