This semester English classes will center on writing good and effective sentences, paragraphs, essays, and research papers.
Monday, January 27, 2020~~Students will build a sentence that includes a subject,
action verb, indirect object, direct object, modifiers
(adjectives and/or adverbs), and prepositional phrase(s).
Tuesday, January 28, 2020~~Post test on Proofing, Editing, and Revising
HOMEWORK: Write a 15 work grammatically correct sentence using you,
your, and you're correctly.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020~~Begin class discussion of pretest answers (1 - 25).
HOMEWORK: Write a 15 work grammatically correct sentence using to, too,
and two correctly.
Thursday, January 30, 2020~~Finish discussing the post test answers (26 - 50).
HOMEWORK: None
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Monday, January 20, 2020~~CLOSED for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Tuesday, January 21, 2020~~Take up or look at students' sentences with their,
there, and they're.
~~Assign the Correcting Mistakes in Sentences worksheet
and have students rewrite each sentence correctly.
~~Review the first four sentences as a class
HOMEWORK: Finish the Correcting Mistakes in Sentences worksheet.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020~~Review the remaining sentence on the Correcting
Mistakes in Sentences worksheet.
~~Assign Spot It! Which are Grammatically Correct?
worksheet and have students circle the number of
each correct sentence.
~~Assign for students to rewrite incorrect sentences.
~~Begin reviewing corrections as a class.
HOMEWORK: Finish corrections on the worksheet.
Thursday, January 23, 2020~~Review the remaining sentences from Grammatically
Correct worksheet.
~~Assign Find the Misplaced Modifiers worksheet and have
students circle the number of each correct sentence.
~~Assign for students to rewrite incorrect sentences.
~~Begin reviewing corrections as a class.
HOMEWORK: Finish the Misplaced Modifier worksheet.
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Monday, January 13, 2020~~Assign worksheet on Correcting Mistakes: Rewrite the
Sentence. Make all sentences grammatically correct.
~~Take up and mark incorrect answers.
HOMEWORK: Correct incorrect rewrites
Tuesday, January 14, 2020~~Review Correcting Mistakes worksheet as a class.
~~Assign worksheet: SpotIt! Unnecessary Words
~~Mark incorrect answers.
~~Have students rewrite the sentences that have
unnecessary words.
HOMEWORK: Finish the Spot It! worksheet
Wednesday, January 15, 2020~~Review unnecessary words worksheet as a class.
~~Assign paragraphs 1 and 2 and have students correct
all grammar mistakes by rewriting the paragraphs.
HOMEWORK: Finish the two paragraph rewrites.
Thursday, January 16, 2020~~Take up paragraphs 1 and 2 and mark incorrect
corrections.
~~Assign worksheet: Spot It! Faulty Coordination.
~~Mark incorrect answers.
~~Have students rewrite the sentences that have
faulty coordination.
HOMEWORK: Finish the worksheet and write a 15 work grammatically correct
sentence using there, their, and they're correctly.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2020~~Pretest on Proofing, Editing, and Revising
HOMEWORK: None
Wednesday, January 8, 2020~~Begin class discussion of pretest answers.
HOMEWORK: None
Thursday, January 9, 2020~~Finish discussing the pretest answers.
~~Mark incorrect answers.
~~Have students rewrite the sentences that have
unnecessary words.
HOMEWORK: None