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GOALS FOR WEEK 5
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Do a peer review of a cause-effect essay and finish your final draft.
  2. Review conditional forms and learn how to form the past unreal conditional.
  3. Practice using cause and effect transition words and connectors.
  4. Practice using in-text and end-of-text APA citation.
  5. Learn academic vocabulary through our novel, textbooks, and other sources.
MONDAY
Materials:
Cause-effect outlines, 451

-Warm-up
-Review of conditionals
-Work on cause-effect essay
-Book Club 3
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HOMEWORK
-Start reading 451 pp 88-119 and do Homework 4 and book club job
-Journal 5 (open topic) due Friday--use 2 conditionals for full credit
-Begin FOG Unit 22 online homework



TUESDAY
Materials:
FOG, Cause-effect packet, Laptops

-Warm-up
-FOG Unit 22 Conditionals
-Cause-effect transition words
-Cause-effect work time


HOMEWORK
-Continue to work on cause-effect essay
-Start reading 451 pp 88-119 and do Homework 4 and book club job
-Journal 5 (open topic) due Friday--use 2 conditionals for full credit
-Continue FOG Unit 22 online homework


WEDNESDAY
Materials:
FOG, Laptops

-Warm-up
​-FOG Unit 22 Conditionals
-APA Citation basics

-Cause-effect essay work session

HOMEWORK
-Finish and print first draft of cause-effect essay for peer review tomorrow
-Start reading 451 pp 88-119 and do Homework 4 and book club job
-Journal 5 (open topic) due Friday--use 2 conditionals for full credit
-Continue FOG Unit 22 online homework

THURSDAY
Materials:
FOG, First draft of essay printed

-Warm-up
-FOG Unit 22 Conditionals
-Cause-effect peer review


HOMEWORK
-Journal 5 (open topic) due Friday--use 2 conditionals for full credit
-Start reading 451 pp 88-119 and do Homework 4 and book club job
-Continue FOG Unit 22 online homework




FRIDAY
Materials:
Journal, 3rd conditional packet, FOG, Reading Explorer

-Warm-up
-3rd conditional packet
-APA in-text citation practice
-APA end-of-text citation practice
-Reading Explorer Unit 2


HOMEWORK
-Final cause-effect essay due printed in class Monday
-Finish reading 451 pp 88-119 and do Homework 4 and book club job

-Continue FOG Unit 22 online homework--quiz Tuesday

-Start Reading Explorer Unit 2 online homework


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