

Drop-in help is available on Mondays from 6:00 – 6:45- pm. Use the class Zoom link.
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Let’s wrap 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
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
- Outline P2, 3, 4 (Reasons 1, 2, 3) – fix as needed – email me by Friday 12/19 to get it checked
- Write and edit rough draft of persuasive
- Fix week 11 & 12 grammar as needed
- I will see you on January 6th!
Winter Week 1:
- Finish warm up
- Vocabulary
- Outline P2, 3, 4 (Reasons 1, 2, 3)
- Fix week 11 & 12 grammar as needed

Week 12:
- Finish warm up if not done
- Vocabulary
- Grammar week 11 & 12
- Outline P1
- Write the rough draft for P1



Week 10:
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 10, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary (Week 10)& Grammar (Week 9)
- Complete LTP- P2 plus color coding your research
- Any old homework that is undone – remember, the cost to not finishing…

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 9, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
- Complete your research and main idea statement (At least 10 sources with links and annotations/notes on the research page)

Topic Choices:
-Should recess be longer?
-Should every classroom have a pet?
-Which is better: board games or video games?
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 to submit it to the judges next week- There are no extensions this week. If your story is not completed on time, you will be eliminated from the competition.

Week 6:
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 6, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
- Finish rough draft for Halloween story
Remember: The three endings that are not allowed are: it was all a dream, they lived happily ever after, and everyone died.
Week 5 Homework:
- 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 game 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 board game and finalize text once you have finished your 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 editing the rough draft of your board game information
- Finish any past homework & correct past week’s work as needed


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%

Remember the questions that adjectives answer:
- What kind?
- What color?
- Which one?
- Whose?
If you ask the question, you will hunt those adjectives down with no problem!


Week 1
- Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 1, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
- Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
- Finish brainstorming ideas for your board game, and begin planning out some of the areas. Come up with a catchy, clever name for your game. 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