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GOALS FOR WEEK 4
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Continue to study and practice all past tenses, with a focus on the past perfect and the past perfect progressive.
  2. Learn about cause-effect essays.
  3. Practice summarizing and using textual evidence through Upfront and our novel homework.
  4. Learn academic vocabulary through our novel and textbooks.
MONDAY
Materials:
​Fahrenheit 451

-Warm-up
-Review Reading Explorer Unit 1 quiz
-Book club: Discuss 451 homework 2


HOMEWORK
-Continue working on FOG 5 Unit 2 online homework, due Wednesday
-Summary-response journal of 25 sentences due Thursday
-use past perfect and past perfect progressive at least twice for full credit!
-Begin reading 451 pp. 60-88 and complete Homework 3 and book club job for Monday.

TUESDAY
Materials:
​FOG 5, FOW 5

-Warm-up
-Past perfect vs past perfect progressive

-Introduce cause-effect essays

HOMEWORK
-Finish working on FOG 5 Unit 2 online homework, due Wednesday, and study for quiz
-Summary-response journal of 25 sentences due Thursday-
use past perfect and past perfect progressive at least twice for full credit!
-Begin reading 451 pp. 60-88 and complete Homework 3 and book club job for Monday.

WEDNESDAY
Materials:
​FOG 5

-Warm-up
-Time for questions about FOG 5 Unit 2 online homework

-Quiz: Past perfect, past perfect progressive, and past tense verbs
-Cause-effect packet (GW 5)


HOMEWORK
-Summary-response journal of 25 sentences due Thursday-use past perfect and past perfect progressive at least twice for full credit!
-Begin reading 451 pp. 60-88 and complete Homework 3 and book club job for Monday.
THURSDAY
Materials:
​FOG 5, Cause-Effect Packet
​
-Warm-up
-Special guest
-Review quiz
-Cause-effect packet (GW 5)
-Introduce cause-effect essay assignment


HOMEWORK
-Finish reading 451 pp. 60-88 and complete Homework 3 and book club job for Monday.
-Start Reading Explorer 4 Unit 2 online homework


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