Tuesday Level D Class Page

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.


To join the online Zoom class, please click the button below Tuesdays from 5:00-6:45.

The passcode is: 888626


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:

  1. What kind?
  2. What color?
  3. Which one?
  4. 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