Unit 1Narrative Essays 
3 lessons1 Week
Narrative Essays 
 Week 1
Lesson 1
Narrative Essays Day 1
This lesson introduces the narrative essay. We talk about characters and settings and how to describe those with descriptive language. 
Lesson 2
Narrative Essays Day 2 
This lesson talks about problems and solutions in our story. It goes over how to come up with solutions to problems and the different types of problems that can happen in a narrative. 
Lesson 3
Narrative Essays Day 3 
In this lesson we will be talking about theme and what that means for narrative essays. We will be finishing up our essays today and talk about how to conclude a narrative essay. 
Unit 2Persuasive Essays 
3 lessons1 Week
Persuasive Essays 
 Week 2
Lesson 4
Persuasive Essays Day 1 
This lesson introduced Persuasive Essays. We will be reading the articles that we need for this essay. We also will be going over how to write the introduction to a persuasive essay. 
Lesson 5
Persuasive Essays Day 2 
In this lesson we will be talking about the body paragraphs of persuasive essays. We will talk about how to structure a body paragraph using the TBEAR format (Topic sentence, background information, evidence, analysis, and return to thesis). We will write the common ground paragraph together and then students will write the next two body paragraph by themselves. 
Lesson 6
Persuasive Essays Day 3 
In this lesson, we will be finishing up persuasive essays. We will talk about the rebuttal paragraph and how to respond to a counter claim. We also will talk about the conclusion of a persuasive essay and the different parts of a conclusion. 
Unit 3Opinion Essays 
3 lessons1 Week
Opinion Essays 
 Week 3
Lesson 7
Opinion Essays Day 1 
In this lesson we will introduce opinion essays. We start with a would you rather game to help students get comfortable expressing their opinion with reasons. We then move into reading a couple examples of opinion essays and talk about how to write a introduction to an opinion essay. 
Lesson 8
Opinion Essays Day 2 
In this lesson we break down the body paragraphs on a opinion essay. We review TBEAR and talk about how that can work for opinion essays. We also look at a new format called OREO (opinion, reason, example, opinion) and see how this format can be used for the body paragraphs. Students will then write an opinion paragraph using one of the formats and then will work on the body paragraphs for their opinion essay. 
Lesson 9
Opinion Essays Day 3 
This is the last class of the course. We will talk about how to write a conclusion for a opinion essay.Students will finish their essays and for me to give them any final feedback. 
Unit 4Review and Make Up Week 
1 lesson1 Week
Review and Make Up Week 
 Week 4
Lesson 10
Make up week 
This week students will be able to catch up on essays and make sure that they have done all of their work. Send any final work for feedback or run them over with someone in your life to see how to improve your writing.