Daily Openers: (assorted by week)

Week 1:

1. Compound sentences

2. Homonyms

3. Mistakes (watch this video then answer the prompt)

4. Compound Sentences 2

Week 2: 

1. Transitional words/phrases

2. Bullying 

3. Direct vs. Indirect Characterization

Week 3: 

1. Literary Devices practice

2. Allusions

3. How & Why we Read (crash course)

4. Punctuation practice

Week 4: 

1. Claim & evidence practice

2. Lead-in practice

3. Sensory details practice

4. Commentary practice

Week 5: 

1. Malapropisms

2. Why do we have Heroes?

3. Fixing awkward sentences

4. TIE practice

Week 6: 

1. Who vs. Whom

2. Greek vs. American values

3. How People Disappear (watch this video first)

Week 7:

1. Dangling Modifiers

2. Practice Thesis statements

3. Creating compound sentences

4. Lie vs. Lay

Week 8: 

1. Did you know? (watch this video first)

2. Tone

3. Fragment sentences

4. If (watch this video first)

Week 9:

1. Active vs. Passive voice

2. RIP words

3. Humans need not apply (watch this video first)

4. 6 Things that will happen in your lifetime (watch video first)