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Week One: Descriptive Essay
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Day 1: Descriptive Language (Vocab)
Day 2: Essay Assigned: Reading / Introduction
Day 3: Analyzing Essay Organization
Day 4: Habitual Past
Day 5: Essays Read and Handed In
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Week Two: Compare and Contrast Essay (Personality Typology)
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Day 1: Compare and Contast Language (Vocab) / Reading 1
Day 2: Rough Draft Assigned / Discussion
Day 3: Prefixes and Suffixes / Reading 2
Day 4: Summarizing and Analyzing
Day 5: Rough Drafts Workshopped
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Week Three: Compare and Contrast Essay
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Day 1: Essay Assigned: Topics Given
Day 2: Concession Language / Revising Introductions
Day 3: Transitional Expressions / Revising Paragraphs
Day 4: Peer Workshop / Revising Conclusions
Day 5: Essays Read and Handed In
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Week Four: Cause and Effect Essay (Appearance)
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Day 1: Cause and Effect Language / Discussion
Day 2: Rough Draft Assigned / Reading: The Face of Beauty
Day 3: Adverbial Clauses / Exercise
Day 4: Reported Speech / Workshop
Day 5: Rough Drafts Workshopped
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Week Five: Cause and Effect Essay
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Day 1: Causal Connectors Review
Day 2: Research and Referencing in APA Format
Day 3: Body Paragraph Workshop
Day 4: Peer Workshop / Revising
Day 5: Essays Read and Handed In
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Week Six: Summary and Response
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Day 1: Cloning Reading / Debate
Day 2: Summarizing / Forming and Expressing a Point of View
Day 3: Paraphrasing
Day 4: Summary and Response Work
Day 5: Hand in Summary and Response
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Week Seven: Argumentative Essay (Ethics of Downloading)
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Day 1: Good and Bad Vocabulary / Reading from New York Times
Day 2: Assign Essay / Refutations / Philosophy (Aristotle, Kant, Mill) Reading
Day 3: 3rd Person Perspective / Using Support
Day 4: Counter-Arguments / Vocabulary
Day 5: Present own Philosophy(er) to Class
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Week Eight: Argumentative Essay
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Day 1: Moby Interview / Metallica Interview
Day 2: Devil’s Advocate Vocabulary / Introductions
Day 3: Body Paragraphs
Day 4: Peer Workshop
Day 5: Essays Read and Handed In
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Week Nine: Advantages and Disadvantages
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Day 1: Email and other New Media / Reading
Day 2: Responding to a quote
Day 3: Vocabulary / Discussion
Day 4: Works Cited
Day 5: Works Cited Assignment
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Week 10: The Kite Runner
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Day 1: Favourite Stories Vocab/ Reading
Day 2: Descriptive Language / Short Story Assigned
Day 3: Building Tension / Making Inferences
Day 4: Reading / Discussion / Short Story Workshop
Day 5: Short Stories Read / Essay Assigned
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Week 11: The Kite Runner
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Day 1: Sybolism / Introductions
Day 2: Figurative Language / Body Paragraphs
Day 3: Unreal Conditionals / Conclusions
Day 4: Essay Revising / Kite Runner Film
Day 5: Essays Read and Handed In / Kite Runner Film
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Week 12: Editing and Revising
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Day 1: Editing symbols
Day 2: Secondary Sources
Day 3: Common Mistakes
Day 4: Articles
Day 5: FANBOYS