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GOALS FOR WEEK 2
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Learn about the 3 types of sentences and 3 types of sentence structure problems.
  2. Introduce the three different types of sentence connectors: transition words, coordinating conjunctions, and subordinators.
  3. Review the parts of an essay and introduce the classification essay.
  4. Discuss plagiarism and academic integrity problems.
  5. Learn academic vocabulary through our novel, textbooks, and online homework.
MONDAY
Materials: Great Writing

-Warm-up 
-Discuss the 3 types of sentences  

-Warm-up 2
-Review essay structure and introduce classification essays (GW 4, pp. 4-8)


HOMEWORK
-Work on Journal 2 for Friday (Open topic--use simple, compound, and complex sentences in your work to get full credit).
-Great Writing Unit 1 online homework, due Monday




TUESDAY
Materials: Sentence Structure Packet
-Warm-up
-Discuss the study plan for The Giver
-More sentence structure
(handout) 
​-Classification essay (handout from GW 3)


HOMEWORK
-Work on Journal 2 for Friday (Open topic--use simple, compound, and complex sentences in your work to get full credit).
-Great Writing Unit 1 online homework, due Monday

-Begin to read the introduction to The Giver and work on the Pre-Reading Assignment (due Friday, 2/7)

WEDNESDAY
Materials: Sentence Structure Packet, Great Writing
-Warm-up
-More sentence structure
-Introduce classification essay assignment


HOMEWORK
​-Bring laptops tomorrow
-Work on Journal 2 for Friday (Open topic--use simple, compound, and complex sentences in your work to get full credit).
-Great Writing Unit 1 online homework, due Monday

-Begin to read the introduction to The Giver and work on the Pre-Reading Assignment (due Friday, 2/7)

THURSDAY
Materials: Sentence Structure Packet, Great Writing
-Warm-up: Plagiarism workshop
-SEW 4 sentence problems practice (Unit 1)
​-The Writing Process

-Review essay introduction info (GW, pp. 18-22)
-Classification essay work time (bring laptops)


HOMEWORK

​-Work on Journal 2 for Friday (Open topic--use simple, compound, and complex sentences in your work to get full credit).
-Great Writing Unit 1 online homework, due Monday

-Begin to read the introduction to The Giver and work on the Pre-Reading Assignment (due Friday, 2/7)



FRIDAY
Materials: Sentence Structure Packet, Great Writing, Q
-Warm-up
-Journal #2 due
-Transition words in English
​
-Sentence structure practice
-Review body paragraph writing (GW pp. 30-31)
-Q Unit 1

HOMEWORK

-Great Writing Unit 1 online homework, due Monday by class time
-Work on classification essay, first draft due Tuesday

-Begin to read the introduction to The Giver and work on the Pre-Reading Assignment (due Friday, 2/7)
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