Monday

Objectives:

• Analyze the parts of a book review.

Daily Grammar Practice Week  18 (Monday – parts of speech).  Write a brief review of a candy bar.  Before you write, brainstorm sensory details that show your opinion of the candy bar.  Your word choice should let your reader know if you like the candy bar or not without stating that whether or not you liked it.  Read the sample book reviews and list the characteristics that you notice.  What types of information is included?  How do they begin and end?
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15-30 minutes.

Tuesday

Objectives:

• Use a planning sheet to organize ideas for writing.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 18 (Tuesday – sentence parts).   Choose a book that you’ve read this year and enjoyed.  List the important information to include in your review:  characters, setting, conflict, genre, reading experience, and, of course, title and author.  Is it part of a series?
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15-30 minutes.

Wednesday

Objectives:

• Write a strong lead to hook your reader.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 18 (Wednesday – clauses, sentence type and purpose). Using the book reviews you have or examples from the list of review leads, write an opening sentence for your review.  In fact, experiment by writing two or three different leads.  Which one works best for you?  Take that lead and begin drafting the rest of your review.
Homework: Read a book of your choice for 15 -30 minutes.

Thursday

Objectives:

• Write a rough draft of your book review.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 18 (Thursday – Correct capitalization and punctuation). Continue writing the rough draft of your book review.

Friday

Objectives:

• Set reading goals for the week.

Daily Grammar Practice Week 18 (Friday – Sentence diagramming).    Fill out the reading goal slip with the title and author of your book and write down what page you begin on.  Read for 10 minutes and write down what page you end on.  Subtract the beginning page from the ending page to find out how many pages you read in 10 minutes.  Multiply that number by 6 to discover how many pages you should be able to read in 1 hour.  Double that answer to find out how many pages you should be able to read in 2 hours.  That is your reading goal for the week.  If you finish or switch to a book that has a very different reading rate, you will need to redo your goal and let me know the new one. After you finish your reading, tell your partner what you read today.  If you can’t remember anything you read, you are reading too fast.
Homework:  Read 15-30 minutes in a book of your choice.