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GOALS FOR WEEK 3
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Review how to write good hooks, body paragraphs, and conclusions.
  2. Participate in a peer review.
  3. Complete a classification essay.
  4. Finish work on the present perfect and present perfect progressive tenses.
  5. Learn how to form passive voice verbs in present and past tenses.
  6. Practice active reading skills through our novel and textbook.
  7. Learn academic vocabulary through our novel, textbooks, and other sources.
MONDAY
-Warm-up
-Discuss reading study plan for The Giver
-Review Quiz 1 on sentence structure

-Continue to review present perfect and present perfect progressive
-Great Writing Chapter 1: hooks and thesis statements
-Writing session on
 classification essay assignment

HOMEWORK
-Journal 3 due Friday
-Work on first draft of classification essay for peer review Wednesday

-Read The Giver introduction and do the pre-reading assignment for Friday







TUESDAY
-Warm-up

-More present perfect/present perfect progressive.
-Additional classification essay writing sample and info about hooks and introductions

HOMEWORK
-Journal 3 due Friday

-Write and print first draft of classification essay for peer review tomorrow
-Read The Giver introduction and do the pre-reading assignment for Friday
-Start to read Chapters 1-2 of The Giver and do Homework 1, due Monday


WEDNESDAY
-Warm-up

-Present perfect and present perfect progressive
-Peer review of classification essay first draft.
-Essay formatting example


HOMEWORK
-Journal 3 due Friday
-Continue to work on final draft of classification essay
-Read Chapters 1-2 of The Giver introduction and do the pre-reading assignment for Friday

-Start to read The Giver and do Homework 1, due Monday



THURSDAY
-Warm-up

-Present perfect and present perfect progressive practice
-Review essay structure and analyze Cinderella essay

-Reading Explorer Chapter 1

HOMEWORK
-Finalize and print final draft of classification essays
-Journal 3 due Friday.
-Read The Giver introduction and do the pre-reading assignment for tomorrow
-Start to read Chapters 1-2 of The Giver and do Homework 1, due Monday
-Continue working on Reading Explorer online homework--due Tuesday



 FRIDAY
-Warm-up

-Present perfect and present perfect progressive practice
-Discuss introduction to The Giver
-Reading Explorer Chapter 1

HOMEWORK
-Read Chapters 1-2 of The Giver 
and do Homework 1, due Monday
-Continue working on Reading Explorer online homework--due Tuesday

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