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Warm Up:
Appetizers - pg. 15

Write Source Books have arrived and are in the school store.

Graded Papers Returned:
Weekend Night Write

Material:
Guidelines/Checklist For Rough Draft For a Friendly Letter
Parts of a Friendly Letter

Verbs to Use Instead of "Said"
http://www.cyberspaces.net/6traits/wsaid.html
http://www.lunarnut.com/said/
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/copyXediting/said1.html

Activity 1:
Using Part of a Friendly Letter
,Guidelines/Checklist For Rough Draft For a Friendly Letter, The Wonders of Writing, and the thesaurus, students will begin to revise their friendly letter. Students will focus on the use of transitions, no two sentences beginning with the same word, and sensory details.

Homework:
Reading-Students will read their challenging chapter book for 30 minutes and complete an entry on the reading log answering the 5 W's.
Night Write-work on making sure that no two sentences begin with the same word.

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