Week 2

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The week of the field trip to Saenger Theatre has arrived! We will finish up The Legend of Sleepy Hollow before Wednesday. The week will be filled with direct lessons on literary analysis writing. Prompt analysis, thesis statement writing, introduction writing, planning body paragraphs, writing body paragraphs, writing conclusions and conducting revisions will be reviewed. On Friday students will take a teacher directed cold quiz and practice revisions on an essay.

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