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GOALS FOR WEEK 4
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Finish reviewing the present perfect and present perfect progressive and how to use them.
  2. Learn how to form and use the passive voice in several different verb tenses.
  3. Begin work on a process essay.
  4. Learn academic vocabulary through our novel, textbooks, and online homework.
MONDAY
Materials:
​The Giver

-Warm-up 
-Review grammar test from Friday
-Briefly introduce passive
-Book Club


HOMEWORK
-Work on Journal 4 for Wednesday (Open topic--use at least 2 passive sentences in your work to get full credit).
-GAB Online Workbook Units 19-20 on the passive due Friday, 2/21, by class time.

-Read Chapters 3-5 (pp. 25-50) of The Giver and complete Homework 2 for Monday, as well as your book club job.



TUESDAY
​
Materials:
​GAB

-Warm-up
-Distribute The Giver homework 2

-GAB Unit 19
​-Introduce process essays


HOMEWORK
-Journal 4 due tomorrow (Open topic--use at least 2 passive sentences in your work to get full credit).
-GAB Online Workbook Units 19-20 on the passive due Friday, 2/21 by class time.

-Read Chapters 3-5 (pp. 25-50) of The Giver and complete Homework 2 for Monday, as well as your book club job.
WEDNESDAY
Materials:
​GAB, Laptop

-Warm-up
-Passive Chart
-GAB Unit 19
-Begin work on process essay

HOMEWORK
​​-GAB Online Workbook Units 19-20 on the passive due Friday, 2/22 by class time.
-Read Chapters 3-5 (pp. 25-50) of The Giver and complete Homework 2 for Monday, as well as your book club job.
THURSDAY
No Class--online assignment instead:
Do ALL Q Unit 1 online activities EXCEPT for #14 and #15. Due at midnight.


HOMEWORK
​-GAB Online Workbook Units 19-20 on the passive due Friday, 2/21 by class time.
-Read Chapters 3-5 (pp. 25-50) of The Giver and complete Homework 2 for Monday, as well as your book club job.


FRIDAY
NO AE CLASSES--TEACHER TRAINING DAY

HOMEWORK
-Read Chapters 3-5 (pp. 25-50) of The Giver and complete Homework 2 for Monday, as well as your book club job.
-First draft of process essay due Tuesday, 2/18
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-GAB Online Workbook Units 19-20 on the passive due Friday, 2/21 by class time.
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