This Week: January 25-29

Monday, January 25:
Kick-Off: Using Quotation Marks for Dialogue
Practicing Adjectives/Adverbs
Complete Writing Notes on Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, and Descriptive Writing
Prompt Practice: Determining Mode, Topic, and Audience
Notes on Organizing an Essay: Hamburger Diagram
Homework: Vocabulary Ex 1

Tuesday, January 26:
Kick-Off: Using Quotation Marks for Dialogue
Practicing Adjectives/Adverbs
Review Vocabulary Ex 1. Answers
Unfinished Notes
Transition Words
Essay Organizing Practice as a class

Wednesday, January 27:
Review Essay Organizational Plan
Give In-Class Essay Topic
Review Essay Rubric
Plan Hamburger for In-Class Expository essay (finish at home to use during in-class timed writing)

Thursday, January 28:
Timed In-Class Expository Essay
Homework: study writing notes-- Be able to name four modes and two aspects of each (Narrative, expository, persuasive and descriptive). Be able to name two things that apply to all four modes of writing.

Friday, January 29:
Quiz on Writing Notes:
Using Quotation Marks for Dialogue
Using Commas to set off introductory phrases and appositives
Simple and Compound Sentences