1st Six Weeks

Week 4

   September 12-16, 2016

MONDAY, September 12

*Continue Image Grammar by Harry Noden. It is a way of painting pictures with words by imitating published authors.

* Practice identifying inverted and natural sentences as well as subjects and predicates.

* Students make their own natural and inverted sentences.

* Have them identify subjects and predicates.

* Some issues with subjects and predicates: compound subjects/predicates, subjects with prepositional          phrases

TUESDAY, September 13

* Start kinds of sentences according to structure: simple, compound, complex.

* Define what simple and compound sentences are.

* Introduce the word CLAUSE.

* Give examples and let students make their own.

* Introduce the common mistakes of FRAGMENTS in short and long simple sentences.

* Start diagramming simple sentences with action verb and direct object, then with linking verbs and predicate noun and adjective.Adverbs and adjectives are included.

WEDNESDAY, September 14

* Go deeper into compound sentences.

   * Students make their own compound sentences and chart of coordinating conjunctions for,and, nor, 

      but, or, yet, so (FANBOYS).

    * Repeat/ emphasize the word CLAUSE.

    * Practice identifying the above.

    * Diagram simple sentences.

    * Relevance: sentence variety

   

THURSDAY, September 15

    * Continue with compound sentences.

    *Familiarize students with errors of RUN-ONS and COMMA SPLICE.

    *Practice fixing the above.

  

 FRIDAY, September 9

    * Explain COMPLEX sentences.

    * Show students their components: independent clause and dependent clause.

    * Practice identifying these components.

REMINDER!!!!!

 Book Report  deadline, SEPTEMBER 19, MONDAY!!!! 

The Old Man and the Sea

by 

Ernest Hemingway

Sentence Diagramming