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GOALS FOR WEEK 6
By the end of this week, you will:
  1. Finish work on the passive voice.
  2. Learn how to form subject relative clauses.
  3. Learn how to distinguish identifying and non-identifying relative clauses.
  4. Understand the difference between a focus-on-causes essay and a focus-on-effects essay.
  5. Begin work on a cause-effect essay.
  6. Learn academic vocabulary through our novel, textbooks, and online homework.
MONDAY
Materials:
​GAB, The Giver

-Warm-up 
-Review grammar test on the passive
-Book Club


HOMEWORK
-Work on Journal 5 for Friday (Open topic--use at least 1 identifying and 1 non-identifying subject relative clause in your work to get full credit).
-Great Writing online homework, Unit 2, due Friday, by class time.
-GAB Online Workbook Unit 21 on the subject relative clauses due Friday, by class time.

-Read Chapters 8-10 (pp. 74-100) of The Giver and complete Homework 4 for Monday, as well as your book club job.



TUESDAY
​
Materials:
​GAB, Great Writing

-Warm-up
-Distribute The Giver homework 4

-GAB Chapter 21: Subject Relative Clauses
​-GW Chapter 2: Cause-Effect Essays


HOMEWORK
-Study Q Unit 1 for test tomorrow
-Work on Journal 5 for Friday (Open topic--use at least 1 identifying and 1 non-identifying subject relative clause in your work to get full credit).
-Great Writing online homework, Unit 2, due Friday, by class time.
-GAB Online Workbook Unit 21 on subject relative clauses due Friday by class time.

-Read Chapters 8-10 (pp. 74-100) of The Giver and complete Homework 4 for Monday, as well as your book club job.
WEDNESDAY
Materials:
​GAB, Great Writing

-Warm-up
-GAB Chapter 21: Subject Relative Clauses
-Quiz: Q Unit 1
​-GW Chapter 2: Cause-Effect Essays


HOMEWORK
​​-Work on Journal 5 for Friday (Open topic--use at least 1 identifying and 1 non-identifying subject relative clause in your work to get full credit).
-Great Writing online homework, Unit 2, due Friday, by class time.
-GAB Online Workbook Unit 21 on subject relative clauses due Friday, by class time.

-Read Chapters 8-10 (pp. 74-100) of The Giver and complete Homework 4 for Monday, as well as your book club job.
THURSDAY
Materials:
​GAB, Great Writing

-Warm-up
-Review Q Unit 1 test

-GAB Chapter 21: Subject Relative Clauses
​-Work on Cause-Effect Essay


HOMEWORK
​-Finish and print Journal 5 for Friday (Open topic--use at least 1 identifying and 1 non-identifying subject relative clause in your work to get full credit).
-Great Writing online homework, Unit 2, due Friday, by class time.
-GAB Online Workbook Unit 21 on subject relative clauses due Friday, by class time.

-Read Chapters 8-10 (pp. 74-100) of The Giver and complete Homework 4 for Monday, as well as your book club job.


FRIDAY
​Materials:
​GAB, Laptop

-Warm-up
-GAB Chapter 21: Subject Relative Clauses
​-Work on Cause-Effect Essays


HOMEWORK
-Read Chapters 8-10 (pp. 74-100) of The Giver and complete Homework 4 for Monday, as well as your book club job.
-Keep working on your cause-effect essay; first draft due Tuesday.

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