1st Six Weeks Unit: Whom Can You Count On?

2nd Six Weeks Unit: Why Do You Read?

3rd Six Weeks Unit: What Makes Life Good?

4th Six Weeks Unit: What Influences You?

5th Six Weeks Unit: How to Become What You Want to Be?

6th Six Weeks Unit: Why We Share Stories

 

Week 1: Introduction to Class

• DOL-Daily grammar lessons/journal writing
• Wednesday Words 1
• Word Snapshot

 Week 2:

Regular--DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing

• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Compare/Contrast Paper

PREAP---DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing

• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• "Abandoned Farmhouse" poem
• Origami house/poem writing

Week 3

• Persuasive paper

Week 4

 

Regular--DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing

 

 

• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Narrative Essay-edit, revise (Who has made a difference in your life?) 

PREAP---DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing

• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Grammar/prepositions and comma usage

 Week 5

 

 Regular--DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing

 

• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Narrative Essay- final copy (Who has made a difference in your life?) 

PREAP---DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing

• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Grammar/semi-colons, hypens/dashes

Week 6

Regular--DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing

• Grammar packet
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• PREAP---DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing

Compare/Contrast Paper-edit, revise, final copy

 Week 7

All students will take part 1 and part 2 of the Writing Curriculum assessment    

 

 Week 8

 Regular--DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing

• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Grammar usage- commas
• Grading of CA Essay
• Fables
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• PREAP---DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing
• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Grammar usage-commas
• Grading of CA Essay
• Fables

Week 9 

Regular

• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Oral Presentation of fables
• Pronoun Agreement/antecedents
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• PREAP---DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing
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• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Oral Presentation of fables
• Pronoun Agreement/antecedents 

 

 Week 10

 Regular--DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing

• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Narrative Essay- Write about a time when one person said one thing but meant another
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• PREAP---DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing
• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Expository Essay- Write about whether it is better to stand up to your fears or to avoid them

 Week 11

 Regular--DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing

• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Adjectival/Adverbial Phrases 

PREAP---DOL-Daily grammar lesson/journal writing

• Wednesday Words
• Vocabulary
• Adjectival/Adverbial Phrases