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GOALS FOR WEEK 5
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Continue to practice forming and using the passive voice in several different verb tenses.
  2. Finish work on a process essay.
  3. Practice scanning and skimming for main ideas.
  4. Learn academic vocabulary through our novel, textbooks, and online homework.
MONDAY
Materials:
​GAB, The Giver

-Warm-up 
-GAB Unit 19
-Book Club


HOMEWORK
-Work on Journal 5 for Friday (Open topic--use at least 2 passive sentences  in your work to get full credit).
-GAB Online Workbook Unit 19 and Unit 20 on the passive due Friday, 2/21 by class time.

-Read Chapters 6-7 (pp. 51-73) of The Giver and complete Homework 3 for Monday, as well as your book club job.



TUESDAY
​
Materials:
​GAB, Process Essay Packet, Laptop

-Warm-up
-Distribute The Giver homework 3 and book club jobs
-GAB: Unit 19

​-Return classification essays
-Read process essay
-Process essay work time


HOMEWORK
-Finish and print first draft of process essay for class tomorrow.
-Work on Journal 5 for Friday (Open topic--use at least 2 passive sentences  in your work to get full credit).
-GAB Online Workbook Unit 19 and Unit 20 on the passive due Friday, 2/21 by class time.

-Read Chapters 6-7 (pp. 51-73) of The Giver and complete Homework 3 for Monday, as well as your book club job.

WEDNESDAY
Materials:
GAB, Essay 1st Draft

-Warm-up
-GAB: Finish Unit 19 and start Unit 20
-Peer review on process essay


HOMEWORK
​​-Continue working on process essay draft
-Work on Journal 5 for Friday (Open topic--use at least 2 passive sentences  in your work to get full credit).
-GAB Online Workbook Unit 19 and Unit 20 on the passive due Friday, 2/21 by class time.

-Read Chapters 6-7 (pp. 51-73) of The Giver and complete Homework 3 for Monday, as well as your book club job.

THURSDAY
Materials:
​GAB, Latest Upfront, Laptop

-Warm-up
-GAB Unit 20
-Last process essay work session

HOMEWORK

​-Finish and print final draft of your process essay for class tomorrow.
-Finish and print Journal 5 for Friday (Open topic--use at least 2 passive sentences in your work to get full credit).

-Study for test tomorrow on the passive.
-Finish GAB Online Workbook Unit 19 and Unit 20 on the passive due Friday, 2/21 by class time.

-Read Chapters 6-7 (pp. 51-73) of The Giver and complete Homework 3 for Monday, as well as your book club job.


FRIDAY
​Materials:
​GAB, Q

-Warm-up: Boggle!
-Test on passive formation
-Finish Q Unit 1

HOMEWORK
-Read Chapters 6-7 (pp. 51-73) of The Giver and complete Homework 3 for Monday, as well as your book club job.
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