Week

Content/Question

Skills

Activities

Assessment

Notes

Week One

Study skills

What is a pattern 1 sentence? (Subject /verb)

Use of daily planner;

Question & answer flow for simple sentence (subject noun plus verb)

Shurley method sentence analysis

Oral participation,

Sentence analysis

Week Two

Review: How do you recognize adjectives,

4 kinds of sentences? (Declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory)

What makes a place memorable?

Adjective questions: What kind, how many, which one?

Sentence rubric.

Descriptive words

Shurley method sentence analysis

Writers Workshop

Descriptive essay

Oral participation,

Sentence analysis

Work in progress

Week Three

Review: How do you recognize adverbs?

What is the complete subject? Predicate?

How do you compare & contrast two characters

Adverb questions: When, where, how?

Dividing the subject from predicate.

List differences and similarities

Shurley method sentence analysis

Compare & contrast 2 characters

Oral participation,

Sentence analysis

Benchmark test

Essay rubric

Labor Day Holiday, no school 9/6

Week Four

Review: How do you recognize prepositional phrases?

What is hyperbole?

Changing adverbs into prepositions

Hyperbole

Drill; Shurley method sentence analysis

Description using hyperbole

Oral participation,

Sentence analysis, Quiz

Check comparisons

Week Five

Review: What is natural and inverted order?

What is an interesting situation from your past?

Recognizing adverb exceptions, predicate parts in the subject.

Use of descriptive adverbs, adjective, hyperbole

Exercises from text.

Short autobiographical essay

Oral participation,

Sentence analysis, Quiz

Work in progress

Holiday on 10/30

Week Six

What have you learned?

Expanding on what you know

Complete & edit autobiographical essay

Writing traits rubrics, student conferences

11/2-11/3 Middle School Field trip