Unit 1Reading Response Essays
3 lessons1 Week
Reading Response Essays
 Week 1
Lesson 1
Reading Response Essays Day 1
In this lesson, we will read an analyze our mentor text: "The Cremation of Sam McGee." Students will also learn about figurative language, logical appeals, and repetition. Lastly, we will talk about how to write a introduction paragraph for a reading response essay. 
Lesson 2
Reading Response Essays Day 2 
In this lesson, we will listen to our mentor text read by the original author. We will also talk about mood, tone, and rhyme in the text. We will cover the structure of body paragraphs in a reading response essay and students will be writing the body paragraphs for their essay. 
Lesson 3
Reading Response Essays Day 3 
In this lesson, we will be finishing up reading response essays. Students will learn about theme. We also will cover fallacies. Lastly students will learn the structure of a conclusion and will be writing the conclusion for their reading response essay. 
Unit 2Compare and Contrast Essays 
3 lessons1 Week
Compare and Contrast Essays 
 Week 2
Lesson 4
Compare and Contrast Essays Day 1 
This lesson introduced compare and contrast essays. We will be comparing different subjects in school. Students will pick the subjects that they want to compare. We will talk about how to write the introduction to a compare and contrast essay and students will write the introduction to this essay. 
Lesson 5
Compare and Contrast Essays Day 2 
In this lesson, student will learn how to use a venn diagram to brainstorm for compare and contrast essays. They will also learn about the different ways that they can lay out their body paragraphs in a compare and contrast essay. These include the alternative method, block method, and integrated method. Students will them write the body paragraphs for their compare and contrast essay. 
Lesson 6
Compare and Contrast Essays Day 3 
In this lesson, we will be looking at the conclusions for our compare and contrast essays. Students will learn two methods for writing conclusions. (Restate thesis, Summarize, Universal Statement) (5cs method: Close the loop, Conclude, Clarify, Concern, and Consequences). Students will then write the conclusions to their compare and contrast essays. 
Unit 3How to Essays 
3 lessons1 Week
How to Essays 
 Week 3
Lesson 7
How to Essays Day 1 
In this lesson, we will be introducing our topic of how to make your favorite food. We will also start class off with an activity where students will have to write a paragraph telling me exactly how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and I will make it exactly how they said to. This teaches the students the importance of details in a how to essay. Students will be writing the introduction to their how to essay in this lesson. 
Lesson 8
How to Essays Day 2 
In this lesson students will learn about sequential order and what it means for how to essays. Students will then be writing the steps for their how to essays with details and sensory language. 
Lesson 9
How to Essays Day 3 
In this lesson, we will be talking about inventions that changed the world and how those things live on because someone wrote down how to make them. We will also be talking about conclusions for how to essays and students will write their conclusion.