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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. Learn and practice 4 techniques to paraphrase and avoid plagiarizing.
  3. Learn academic vocabulary through our novel and textbooks.
  4. Learn more about cause-effect essays and begin to work on one.
MONDAY
-Notes on summary-response journals
-Warm-up
-Discuss Flowers for Algernon study plan
-Discuss sentence structure and sentence structure issues
(handout)

HOMEWORK
-Work on Journal 2 for Friday (pick an article from Upfront and write a  summary/response to it, just like last week).
-Begin reading Flowers for Algernon pp. 1-34 and complete Homework 1 for Monday, 2/5
-Start Grammar Sense online homework Chapter 11, due Friday

TUESDAY
-Warm-up
-Sentence structure practice
-Transition Handout
-Grammar Sense Chapter 11
-Cause Effect essay model (GAB)

HOMEWORK

-Work on Journal 2 for Friday.
-Continue reading Flowers for Algernon pp. 1-34 and complete Homework 1 for Monday, 2/5
-Continue Grammar Sense online homework Chapter 11, due Friday
-Continue Pathways Chapter 1 online homework

WEDNESDAY
-Warm-up
-Grammar Sense Chapter 11: Coordinating conjunctions
-Pathways 1
-Cause-effect essay assignment


HOMEWORK
-Journal 2 due Friday.

-Continue reading Flowers for Algernon pp. 1-34 and complete Homework 1 for Monday, 2/5
-Continue Grammar Sense online homework Chapter 11, due Friday
-Continue Pathways Chapter 1 online homework
-Begin to work on cause-effect essay; 1st draft due Tuesday.


THURSDAY
-Warm-up
-Grammar Sense Chapter 11
: Transitions
-Examples of cause-effect essays
-Cause-effect essay development time

HOMEWORK
-Journal 2 due Friday.
-Study for quiz on sentence structure and sentence structure problems.

-Continue reading Flowers for Algernon pp. 1-34 and complete Homework 1 for Monday, 2/5
-Continue Pathways Chapter 1 online homework
-Continue to work on cause-effect essay; 1st draft due Tuesday.




FRIDAY
-Warm-up
-Journal #2 due
-Quiz on sentence structure and sentence structure problems

-Discuss plagiarism and write the two paraphrased sentences in Exercise A on p. 122,
-Paraphrase examples from p. 61.

HOMEWORK

-Continue reading Flowers for Algernon pp. 1-34 and complete Homework 1 for Monday, 2/5. Bring your printed, completed homework to turn in on Monday.
-Continue Pathways Chapter 1 online homework.
-Begin to work on cause-effect essay; 1st draft due Tuesday.

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