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GOALS FOR WEEK 3
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Continue to practice how to form correct sentences and how to fix sentence errors.
  2. Review all present and past tenses and learn how to form and use the past perfect and the past perfect progressive.
  3. Finish a process essay, using the writing process.
  4. Practice summarizing and using textual evidence through our novel homework.
  5. Learn academic vocabulary through our novel and textbooks.
MONDAY
Materials:
​Fahrenheit 451

-Warm-up
-Review present and past tenses, introduce past perfect
-Book club: Discuss 451 homework 1


HOMEWORK
​
-Work on first draft of process essay-- due printed in class tomorrow
-Start working on FOG 5 Unit 2 online homework.
-Open/personal topic journal of 25 sentences due Friday
; must include at least two attempts at the past perfect or past perfect progressive
-Begin reading 451 pp. 21-60 and complete Homework 2 for Monday.
TUESDAY
​
Materials:
​FOG, Essay 1st Draft

-Warm-up: Sentence structure game
-Review sentence structure quiz

-FOG: Review of past tenses
​
-Overview of the writing process
-Peer Review: Process Essay

HOMEWORK
-Continue working on FOG 5 Chapter 2 online homework
-Continue working on Reading Explorer Unit 1 online homework
-Open/personal topic journal of 25 sentences due Friday
; must include at least two attempts at the past perfect or past perfect progressive
-Begin reading 451 pp. 21-60 and complete Homework 2 for Monday.
WEDNESDAY
​
Materials:
​FOG, Laptop, Process Essay Packets

-Warm-up
-Return 451 HW and discuss positive aspects
-FOG
: Past perfect practice
-Practice process essay transition words

-Finalize work on process essay

HOMEWORK
-Finish work on process essay--final draft due printed in class tomorrow
-Continue working on FOG 5 Chapter 2 online homework

-Continue working on Reading Explorer Unit 1 online homework
-Open/personal topic journal of 25 sentences due Friday; must include at least two attempts at the past perfect or past perfect progressive
-Begin reading 451 pp. 21-60 and complete Homework 2 for Monday.

THURSDAY
​
Materials:
​Essay Final Draft, FOG, Reading Explorer

-Warm-up
-Simple past vs. present perfect practice

-Finish Reading Explorer Unit 1

HOMEWORK
-Continue working on Reading Explorer Unit 1 online homework and study for quiz tomorrow
-Open/personal topic journal of 25 sentences due tomorrow; must include at least two attempts at the past perfect or past perfect progressive
-Continue working on FOG 5 Chapter 2 online homework
-Continue reading 451 pp. 21-60 and complete Homework 2 for Monday.


FRIDAY
​
Materials:
​FOG, Reading Explorer

-Warm-up: Read-Around
-Journal #3 due
-FOG: Past perfect and past perfect progressive tenses

-Quiz: Reading Explorer Unit 1

HOMEWORK
-Continue reading 451 pp. 21-60 and complete Homework 2--as well as your book club job--for Monday.
-Continue working on FOG 5 Chapter 2 online homework
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