Monday, December 7th:  Students will begin rough draft for their descriptive essays, focusing on introduction

Tuesday, December 8th:  Descriptive Essays. . 

Wednesday, December 9th:  Finish writing rough draft and revise for style (voice, vocabulary, and variety of sentences)

Thursday, December 10th:  Publish descriptive essays

Friday, December 11th:  Daily Grammar Quiz and final copy of descriptive essays are due at the end of class today. 

Monday, November 30th:  Descriptive Writing:  Pre-write.                                                                    Students will generate ideas for their next writing assignment:  Describe your dream room.  Students will sketch their dream room before writing. 

Persuasive Essays due no later than today!   

Tuesday, December 1st:  Descriptive Writing:  Write phrases to describe the features you have drawn in your sketch. 

Wednesday, December 2nd:  Descriptive Writing:  Using the phrases from Tuesday, students will write complete sentences describing their dream rooms.  Students will use a variety of sentences (simple, compound, and complex)

Thursday, December 3rd:  Field Trip

Friday, December 4th:  Daily Grammar Quiz. Write rough draft for Descriptive Essay about your dream room.