Mastering Grammar in the Five Paragraph Essay PART 2

This is a flex course designed to pair with "Mastering the Five Paragraph Essay PART 2" taught by Jade Weatherington. Teacher Jade noticed her students needed some additional grammar help in a few key areas but felt students should be taught grammar by someone passionate about it! Enter Teacher Molly! This class must be taken with  "Mastering the Five Paragraph Essay PART 2".
Enroll in Jade's class either as a Live or Flex :
FLEX:
https://outschool.com/classes/mastering-the-five-paragraph-essay-middle-school-pt-2-*flex*-H7uqkp0e#us7L6POINR
LIVE:
https://outschool.com/classes/mastering-the-five-paragraph-essay-middle-school-pt-2-IlvNeM38#us7L6POINR

Class Recordings will be posted in the classroom and are to be watched after watching the week's corresponding video in "Mastering the Five Paragraph Essay PART 2". Each week's essay will have a key grammatical focus that coincides with the particular essay.

Each lesson will have a mini-lecture with practice for students as well as applicable teaching they can use for their essay. In addition, there will be required discussion questions that students will need to respond to between the entire class which encourages student to student interaction using the classroom comments. Learners will apply their knowledge of grammar through revision of their essay and submit for feedback to me before submitting to Teacher Jade. 

Each week will also have several mystery challenge questions that learners are encouraged to participate in. Learners will have a character on a game board and will be able to see themselves moving towards mastery each week. This is a fun way to have interaction with other students in the class even though the course is a Flex class. 

Week 1: 
Grammar Concept: MLA Formatting
This will pair with the Classification Essay.
Materials Needed: Printed Handout, All materials from "Mastering the Five Paragraph Essay PART 2 " Week 1
Objective: Students will learn how to properly format in MLA-style including in-text citations and Works Cited.
Students will do a variety of writing exercises on a handout to prepare for formatting in the Classification Essay and receive video feedback on assignments from me.

Week 2:
Grammar Concept: Dialogue Formatting
This will pair with the Personal Narrative.
Materials Needed: Printed Handout, All materials from "Mastering the Five Paragraph Essay PART 2"  Week 2
Objective: Students will learn how to format dialogue including using speech tags, quotes, and commas.
Students will do a variety of writing exercises on a handout to prepare for correct formatting in the Personal Narrative Essay and receive video feedback on assignments from me.

Week 3:
Grammar Concept: APA Formatting
This will pair with the Research Essay.
Materials Needed: Printed Handout, All materials from "Mastering the Five Paragraph Essay PART 2" Week 3
Objective: Students will learn how to properly format in APA- style including in-text citations and bibliography
Students will do a variety of writing exercises on a handout to prepare for correct usage in Research Essay and receive video feedback on assignments from me.


Week 4:
Grammar Concept: Active vs Passive Voice
This will pair with the Cause and Effect Essay.
Materials Needed: Printed Handout, All materials from "Mastering the Five Paragraph Essay PART 2"  Week 4
Objective: Students will learn how to use active voice and keep passive voice to a minimum in essay writing.
Students will do a variety of writing exercises on a handout to prepare for correct usage in the Cause and Effect Essay and receive video feedback on assignments from me.

Organization of the week should be:
1. Watch Flex video in Teacher Jade's "Mastering the Five Paragraph Essay PART 2" 
2. Watch Flex video in Teacher Molly's "Mastering Grammar in the Five Paragraph Essay PART 2"
3. Submit practice exercises to Teacher Molly in "Mastering Grammar in the Five Paragraph Essay PART 2"
4. Submit a written essay to Teacher Molly in "Mastering Grammar in the Five Paragraph Essay PART 2" for feedback on grammar concept
    - NO OTHER FEEDBACK WILL BE GIVEN ON ESSAY OTHER THAN GRAMMAR CONCEPTS
5. Receive video feedback for grammar work from Teacher Molly
6. Make changed through revision
7. Submit the revised written essay in "Mastering the Five Paragraph Essay  PART 2" to Teacher Jade for Peer and Teacher Feedback


In- Process essays should be submitted to the Outschool classroom as a .doc, .docx, .pdf, .rtf, or through GoogleDocs.  If these writing applications/programs are not available, they may be typed in the chat.

-Handwritten assignments that are uploaded in files will only receive partial feedback as I won't be able to include in-text notes.

*Please note, in both courses, grades (letter/percentage) are not issued.