11/30/09 - 12/4/09: Poetry
11/16/09 - 11/20/09: Expository Writing- Explaining a process
Writer's craft: purpose and audience
Grammar: question marks and exclamation points
11/9/09 - 11/13/09: Expository Writing- Responding to nonfiction
Writer's Craft: Topic Sentences
Grammar: capitalization of places
10/26/09 - 11/6/09: Expository Writing- fiction book review
Writer's Craft- paragraph form
Grammar: commas in dialogue
10/12/09 - 10/15/09: Expository Writing - Summary paragraph
Writer's Craft- Organization of Expository Writing
Grammar: Commas in a series
10/5/09 -10/9/09: Expository Writing - Responding to fiction
Writer's Craft- Time and order words
Grammar: Quotation marks in dialogue
9/14/09 - 9/18/09: Introduction to the writing process- editing/proofreading
Writer's Craft- staying on topic
Grammar: Sentences: The four types, end marks, capitalization of the first
letter
9/8/09 - 9/11/09: Introduction to the writing process- revising
Writer's Craft- sentence variety
Grammar: verbs; action, state of being, linking
8/31/09 - 9/4/09: Introduction to the writing process- drafting
Writer's Craft- topic sentences
Grammar: verbs; action, state of being, linking
8/24/09 - 8/28/09: Introduction to the writing process- prewriting
Grammar: pronouns
8/17/09-8/21/09
Introduction to the writing process- getting ideas
Grammar-nouns