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GOALS FOR WEEK 2
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Have all your online systems set up for the course (Engrade, Focus on Grammar, Reading Explorer).
  2. Review past tenses in English and understand how to form and use the past perfect.
  3. Practice scanning for specific details in academic readings.
  4. Learn what a process-analysis essay is and begin writing one.
  5. Understand what makes a strong essay introduction.
  6. Build academic vocabulary through reading our textbooks and outside sources.
MONDAY
NO CLASSES:
LABOR DAY


HOMEWORK
-One-paragraph summary of "Is the World Running Out of Chocolate" due Tuesday

TUESDAY
-Warm-up

-Tense review and begin FOG 2
-Discuss MyEnglishLab online homework: Go to this website and enter your access code and class code: ieen-uaom-9w4t-qbqv
-Reading Explorer 1
-Discuss how to set up Reading Explorer online homework: Go to this website and enter your access code and course code:
E-ZPDR5V7R7UZ9
-Give assignment for this week's journal: "Meet the parents who won't let their children study literature"

HOMEWORK

-Finish Reading Explorer 1 questions we started in class.
-Set up Reading Explorer online, MyEnglishLab, and Engrade accounts
-Summary-response journal due Friday
-Unit 2 FOG online homework, due Monday






WEDNESDAY
-Warm-up
-Reading Explorer 1
-FOG 2
-Introduce process essays and the process-essay assignment

HOMEWORK

-Reading Explorer 1 p. 12
-Set up Reading Explorer online, MyEnglishLab, and Engrade accounts
-Summary-response journal due Friday
-Unit 2 FOG online homework, due Monday




THURSDAY
-Warm-up
-Reading Explorer 1 p. 12
-FOG 2

-Process essay thesis statements

HOMEWORK

-Set up Reading Explorer online, MyEnglishLab, and Engrade accounts
-Summary-response journal due Friday
-Unit 2 FOG online homework, due Monday

FRIDAY
-Warm-up

-FOG 2
-Reading Explorer

-Discuss good introductions
-Process essay

HOMEWORK

For Friday:
-Unit 2 FOG online homework, due Monday. Study for grammar quiz Monday

-Work on process essay first draft, due Tuesday


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