English 7 - Week 16 - Quarter 2

 

Students will be learning about argument essays and compound sentences this week.  

 

Writing argument essays should come easy to preteens...they love to prove themselves right!  There are some things they do need to learn, though, such as claims, counterclaims, reasoning, evidence, etc.  While it all sounds like quite a lot, I will break it down into a manageable task, and everyone should be able to write a simple argument essay within two weeks.

 

Compound sentences are fairly simple as well; they are just two sentences joined together in a special way.  I just did it a second ago - the sentence preceding this one is a compound sentence.

 

Pretty soon the kids will be out for winter break, so get ready!