Writing

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Writer's Notebook

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Learning objectives for the month of November

Writing: Short story; persuasive essay: introduction (leads and issue statements), developing main ideas

Grammar: Complements: predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, direct objects, indirect objects; identify and use transitive and intransitive verbs

Spelling: silent letters, final y words and suffixes

Long-term assignment
Writer's Notebook due November 21 (date moved back one week to coincide with Mrs. Saltmarsh-Smith's class; both classes will share their writing notebooks together); First typed copy of short story due Monday, November 17

Learning objectives for the week of Nov. 17-21

Writing: Short story

Grammar: Sentence diagramming: commands, prepositional phrases, nouns used as adjectives; CHECK OUT THIS WEBSITE FOR SENTENCE DIAGRAMMING

Spelling: NO SPELLING THIS WEEK

Classroom assignments

Monday: Sentence diagramming: adjectival prepositional phrases; Agreement pretest
Tuesday: Sentence diagramming: interjections and possessive nouns; Agreement of subject and verb: singular and plural, pages 419-421

Wednesday: Sentence diagramming: indirect objects; Agreement of subject and verb: indefinite pronouns, pages 422-423

Thursday: Sentence diagramming: coordinating conjunctions; Agreement of subject and verb: compound subjects; pages 425-428
Friday: SHARE JOURNALS