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GOALS FOR WEEK 3
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Learn about the structure of good body paragraphs for process essays.
  2. Learn about transition words used in process essays.
  3. Participate in a peer review and finalize your process essay.
  4. Understand the writing process as a cycle.
  5. Practice modals for advisability and speculation about the past.
  6. Begin to learn about cause-effect essays.
  7. Continue to develop academic vocabulary through in-class readings and novel.

MONDAY
-Warm-up
-Grammar Quiz: Sentence Structure and the Past
-Body paragraphs and transition words in a process essay
-Process essay work time

HOMEWORK
-For tomorrow: printed 5-paragraph first draft of process essay
-For Friday:Journals: Open Topic
-For Friday: Complete Reading Explorer chapter 1 online homework and study for Friday quiz
-For Monday: Begin reading Oliver Twist (pp. v-x and Chapters 1-5) and do Homework 1





 TUESDAY
-Warm-up
-Modals
-Writing process
-Peer review of process essay


HOMEWORK

-For Friday:Journals: Open Topic
-
For Friday: Complete Reading Explorer chapter 1 online homework and study for Friday quiz
-For Monday: Begin reading Oliver Twist
(pp. v-x and Chapters 1-5) and do Homework 1

WEDNESDAY
-Warm-up
-Oliver Twist study plan
-Modals

-Reading Explorer

HOMEWORK

-Final printed draft of process essay due tomorrow.
-For Friday:Journals: Open Topic
-
For Friday: Complete Reading Explorer chapter 1 online homework and study for Friday quiz
-For Monday: Begin reading Oliver Twist
(pp. v-x and Chapters 1-5) and do Homework 1

THURSDAY
-Warm-up
-Modals
-Reading Explorer


HOMEWORK

-For Friday:Journals: Open Topic
-
For Friday: Complete Reading Explorer chapter 1 online homework and study for Friday quiz
-For Monday: Begin reading Oliver Twist
(pp. v-x and Chapters 1-5) and do Homework 1

-Start FOG Online Homework for Units 4 and 5
FRIDAY
-Warm-up
-Reading Explorer Chapter 1 quiz

-Introduce cause-effect essay

HOMEWORK

-For Monday: Complete reading Oliver Twist (pp. v-x and Chapters 1-5) and do Homework 1
-Work on FOG Online Homework for Units 4 and 5

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