A strong sentence is needed to tell intriguing stories. And in the real world, writing a simple sentence is how many people communicate. Thus, it’s important that students have a good understanding of writing sentences, so they can express their ideas in the classroom, on social media, and in email communications.

We will review the four basic types of sentences (exclamatory, interrogative, statement, imperative ) and four basic structures (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex). This class serves as reinforcement and practice of these sentences.

** Students should be able to make simple sentences independently -- no help from a parent -- to fully participate in the class. 
 
Class Format:
1. Warm-up (game/photo/sentence)
2. Review of Specific Sentence (complex, exclamatory, etc.)
3. Introduce "I Spy" image and theme
4. Teacher’s sentence example
5. Class creates a sentence while playing "I Spy"
6. Individual student create a sentence for classmates to guess image
7. Homework Assignment (post sentences on class site)




OCT. 
Week of 10/4: Imperative Sentence 
Week of 10/11: Simple Sentence
Week of 10/18: Exclamatory Sentence
Week of  10/25: Compound Sentence

NOV
Week of 11/1: Interrogative Sentence
Week of 11/8: Complex Sentence
Week of 11/15: Statement Sentence
Week of 11/22: Compound-Complex Sentence
Week of 11/29: Imperative Sentence 
** repeat cycle **

DEC
Week of 12/06: Simple Sentence
Week of 12/13: Exclamatory Sentence
Week of  12/20: Compound Sentence


June
Week of 6/21: Simple Sentence
Week of 6/28: Exclamatory Sentence

July
Week of  7/5: Compound Sentence
Week of 7/12: Interrogative Sentence
Week of 7/19: Complex Sentence
Week of 7/26: Statement Sentence

August
Week of 8/2: Compound-Complex Sentence
Week of 8/9: Imperative Sentence 
August
Week of 8/16: Simple Sentence
Week of 6/23: Exclamatory Sentence
Week of  8/30: Compound Sentence

September
Week of 9/6: Interrogative Sentence
Week of 9/13: Complex Sentence
Week of 9/20: Statement Sentence
Week of 9/27: Compound-Complex Sentence