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GOALS FOR WEEK 5
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Do a peer review of a process essay and finish your final draft.
  2. Learn how to form passives with modals, get, and gerunds/infinitives.
  3. Practice active reading skills through our novel and prediction skills through our reading text.
  4. Learn about specific vocabulary for interpreting charts and graphs.
  5. Learn academic vocabulary through our novel, textbooks, and other sources.
MONDAY
-Warm-up
-Review vocab quiz
-Review reading homework and Google doc
-GAB 20
-Process essay writing review
-Sample process essay #1
-Sample process essay #2
-Outline process essay
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HOMEWORK
-Continue to work on process essay for peer review on Wednesday
-Start reading the Giver chapters 6-7 (pp. 51-73)
-Journal 5 due Friday
-ADD YOUR WORD TO THE Google doc

for this week!
-Continue working on GAB 19 and 20 online homework


TUESDAY
-Warm-up
-Discuss questions about this section of The Giver

-GAB 20 
-LAR Chapter 2, Reading 1

-Work on process essay

HOMEWORK
-Prepare draft of process essay for peer review
-Continue working on GAB 19-20 online homework

-Continue reading The Giver pp. 51-73 and begin Reading Homework 3.
-Journal 5 due Friday
-Vocab quiz on Friday; study Google doc.

WEDNESDAY
-Warm-up
-Review
Google doc vocabulary
-Practice with get passives
​-GAB 20
-Discuss excellent classification essays.

-Process essay peer review

HOMEWORK
-Finish work on GAB online chapters 19-20 and study for passive unit test tomorrow.
-Continue reading The Giver pp. 51-73 and begin Reading Homework 3.
-Journal 5 due Friday

-Vocab quiz on Friday; study Google doc.
-Prepare final draft of process essay for Friday
THURSDAY
-Warm-up
-Passive unit test (GAB 19-20)
-LAR Chapter 2, Reading 2
_Transitions resources

-Punctuation review

HOMEWORK
-Study for vocabulary quiz; study Google doc.
​-Journal 5 due Friday.
-Make final revisions to process essay and print out final draft to hand in tomorrow.

-Continue to read The Giver and work on Reading Homework 3

FRIDAY
-Warm-up
​-Vocabulary quiz
​-Review passive unit test
-LAR Chapter 2, Reading 3
-Developing vocabulary for charts and graphs


HOMEWORK
-Reading Homework 3 due Monday (don't forget to put your word in the Google doc as well.)


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