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GOALS FOR WEEK 10
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Continue to practice forming subject and object relative clauses and clauses with whose, where, and when.
  2. Continue to practice distinguishing identifying and non-identifying relative clauses.
  3. Learn how to form reduced relative clauses.
  4. Learn about the structure of a persuasive essay.
  5. Learn how to form counterarguments.
  6. Learn academic vocabulary through our novel, textbooks, and online homework.
MONDAY
Materials:
​GAB, The Giver

-Warm-up 
-GAB 23: Discuss reduced relative clauses
-Book Club


HOMEWORK
-Work on Journal 9 for Friday (Open topic--use at least 1 relative clause  with where, 1 with when, and 1 with whose in your work to get full credit).

-GAB Online Workbook Unit 23 on more relative clauses due Friday, March 29, by class time.
-Read Chapters 15-17 (pp. 149-173) of The Giver and complete Homework 7 for Monday, 4/1, as well as your book club job.
​-Great Writing Unit 5 online homework on persuasive essays due Friday, April 5.





TUESDAY
​
Materials:
​.GAB, Great Writing

-Warm-up
-Distribute The Giver homework 7

-Sentence combining
-GAB Chapter 23: Reduced relative clauses
​-Introduce persuasive essay (GW 5)


HOMEWORK
-Work on Journal 9 for Friday (Open topic--use at least 1 relative clause  with where, 1 with when, and 1 with whose in your work to get full credit).
-GAB Online Workbook Unit 23 on more relative clauses due Friday, March 29, by class time.
-Read Chapters 15-17 (pp. 149-173) of The Giver and complete Homework 7 for Monday, 4/1, as well as your book club job.
​-Great Writing Unit 5 online homework on persuasive essays due Friday, April 5.
WEDNESDAY
Materials:
​Upfront, GAB, Great Writing

-Warm-up
-Sentence Combining
​-GAB Chapter 23
​-Understanding counterarguments
-More persuasive essays (Upfront, GW 5)


HOMEWORK
​​-Work on Journal 9 for Friday (Open topic--use at least 1 relative clause  with where, 1 with when, and 1 with whose in your work to get full credit).
-GAB Online Workbook Unit 23 on more relative clauses due Friday, March 29, by class time.
-Read Chapters 15-17 (pp. 149-173) of The Giver and complete Homework 7 for Monday, 4/1, as well as your book club job.
​-Great Writing Unit 5 online homework on persuasive essays due Friday, April 5.
THURSDAY
Materials:
GAB, Great Writing

-Warm-up
-Sentence Combining
​-Finish GAB 23 on reduced relative clauses

-Persuasive essay practice (GW 5)

HOMEWORK
​-Finish and print Journal 9 for Friday (Open topic--use at least 1 relative clause  with where, 1 with when, and 1 with whose in your work to get full credit).
-Finish GAB Online Workbook Unit 23 on more relative clauses due Friday, March 29, by class time and study for quiz.

-Read Chapters 15-17 (pp. 149-173) of The Giver and complete Homework 7 for Monday, 4/1, as well as your book club job.
​-Great Writing Unit 5 online homework on persuasive essays due Friday, April 5.
FRIDAY
​Materials:
​GAB, Upfront, Active Reading

-Warm-up
-Test on GAB Chapters 21-23: 
​-Return compare-contrast essays
-Upfront or Reading Explorer


HOMEWORK
-Read Chapters 15-17 (pp. 149-173) of The Giver and complete Homework 7 for Monday, 4/1, as well as your book club job.
​-Great Writing Unit 5 online homework on persuasive essays due Friday, April 5.
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