
Drop-in help is available on Mondays from 6:00 – 6:45- pm. Use the class Zoom link.

Please do not resolve any comments made by Ms. Moyano. Instead, you should reply, “Corrected”. If you have an incorrect answer, you will find a RED X next to it. If there is a green +, it is correct. When you see a red X, you are responsible for making the correction within one week.

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Let’s finish this up…
Is your essay the best you are capable of?
Follow the ⅕ rule?
Cite your sources?
Use varied sentence structure?
Use concrete words?
Third person?
Followed your outline?
Flows and is logical?

- If yes, make a note at the top telling me it is your BEST work. If you aren’t telling me the whole truth, there will be homework added next week.
- If no, add this to your homework this week and get it done. Since you are getting an extra week, I am going to be VERY picky.




Winter Week 3:
- Finish warm up
- Vocabulary
- Fix persuasive as needed
- Blueprint your personal narrative
- Fix or finish any past homework
NOTE: Homework is due by 7 am on the morning of your class, NOT when you get home from school on the day of class. I will check and correct midday. If the work is not done, additional work will be added as discussed.

Winter Week 2:
- Finish warm up
- Grammar
- Fix Outline as needed & add paragraph 5 – email/text me by Friday at 8:30 if you want it checked
- Write and edit rough draft
- Fix week 12 grammar – if needed
- See you next year! January 6th/7th

Winter Week 1:
- Finish warm up
- Vocabulary
- Fix Outline P2
- Outline P3 & 4
- Fix week 12 grammar
Week 12:
- Finish warm up if not done
- Vocabulary
- Grammar week 11 & 12
- Outline P2
- Write the rough draft for P1 (Tuesday only)



Week 10:
- Finish Vocabulary (week 10) & Grammar (week 9)
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 10, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Complete LTE- P2 & P3, plus color coding your research and adding to it as needed


Don’t forget to assign each of your reasons a color, and then, color code your research to make next week much easier.
Focus on things you can use for evidence in your body paragraphs.
Week 9:
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 8, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
- Complete your research and thesis statement (you may use AI for RESEARCH only)

Topic choices:
- Should animals be kept in zoos, or should they live in the wild?
- Should students be allowed to use cell phones during school hours?
Week 8:
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 8, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
- Enjoy the super light week! You earned it.
Week 7:
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 7, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
- Edit rough draft for Halloween story & be ready for submission next week
Week 6:
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 6, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
- Make any revisions needed to brochure after feedback
- Finish rough draft for Halloween story

Week 5:
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 5, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
- Make any revisions needed to brochure after feedback
- Finish blueprint for Halloween story



Week 4 Homework:
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 4, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
- Design your brochure and add the text once you have made your final corrections
- Select your Halloween story idea


Week 3 Homework:
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 3, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
- Finish the second half of the rough draft of your brochure & edit both halves


Week 2 Homework:
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 2, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
- Start the rough drafts of your guide – do a minimum of 50%
This week, you will decide on the different sections of your brochure – this will be decided with your partner. Together, you will bullet point plan out each section – fragments only! In addition, finalize the name of your resort.
For homework, you will begin writing out each section. The writing is an INDIVIDUAL project. Plan together – write separately.
Week 1 Homework:
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 1, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
- Finish brainstorming and choose an “impossible” but explainable concept. Brainstorm design, location, amenities, safety, and anything else you can think of. Come up with a catchy, clever motto. Your planning should be in fragments and bullet points only. NO complete sentences or paragraphs.

A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea. If a word can wear a name tag—or you can point to it, count it, or talk about it—it’s probably a noun.
Quick ways to spot a noun
- The article test
- Pronoun swap
- Counting/amount: Can you count it or measure it?
- Preposition check: Does it fit after a preposition
Tricky spots to watch
– Capitalization: Proper nouns get capitals: Monday, Google, Africa.
– Abstract & noncount nouns: trust, courage, usually no plural
– Verb vs. noun look-alikes: Run (verb): We run daily. Run (noun): I went for a run.
– Possessives vs. plurals:
students (plural) vs. student’s (one student owns) vs. students’ (many students own)