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GOALS FOR WEEK 11
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Continue to learn about and begin writing a persuasive essay.
  2. Learn about the use of adverbial clauses and phrases in English.
  3. Practice active reading skills through our novel and prediction and scanning skills through our reading text.
  4. Learn academic vocabulary through our novel, textbooks, and other sources.
MONDAY
-Warm-up
-Conditionals exercise
-Review reading homework
-Work session on persuasive essay


HOMEWORK
-Finish packet on 2nd conditional
-Journal 11 due Friday
-Study for conditional quiz due tomorrow

-Work on first draft of persuasive essay, due Friday
-Finish reading The Giver
and complete for Monday homework 9

TUESDAY
-Warm-up
-Review packet on 2nd conditional
-Quiz: 2nd Conditional
-Persuasive essay work: Introductions


HOMEWORK
-Journal 11 due Friday
-Work on first draft of persuasive essay, due printed at beginning of class Friday.
-Finish reading The Giver
and complete for Monday homework 9

WEDNESDAY
-Warm-up
-
Review quiz
-Continue work on persuasive essay: Thesis statements and topic sentence body paragraphs 


HOMEWORK
-Journal 11 due Friday
-Work on first draft of persuasive essay, due printed at beginning of class Friday.
-Finish reading The Giver
and complete for Monday homework 9

THURSDAY
-Warm-up
-Begin work on GAB 27-28

-Continue work on persuasive essay: Counterarguments and conclusions
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HOMEWORK
-Journal 11 due Friday
-Work on first draft of persuasive essay, , due printed at beginning of class Friday.


-Finish reading The Giver and complete for Monday homework 9

FRIDAY
-Warm-up
-GAB 27-28

-Peer review of persuasive essay

HOMEWORK
-Work on final draft of persuasive essay, due Monday
-Finish reading The Giver and complete for Monday homework 9


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