Grammar Unit
6/2/10
Mark and Bill
Philosophies:
Mark: Grab the books and seeing where it goes. Punctuation and grammar go together
and both should be taught.
Technical Tuesdays? “Grammar Day.”
Bill: Deciding what each grade level should be learning. Repetition will happen. Build
on what they learned the year before.
Mark and Bill: Composition books will be used for notes. Composition books used and
retained for 4 years. Students go to last year’s teacher to pick up Comp books.
Common assessments will be for semester and end of year. Teachers are responsible for
assessments for each unit.
9th grade agenda:
POS—Nouns, verbs, adj, adv, pronouns, IO,DO, preps and prep phrases, interjections,
conjunctions.
Nouns—Function (Subjects and objects)
Verbs—Transitive (DO, IO), Intransitive
Pronouns—Objective and subjective
Adjectives
Adverbs
Prepositions—Phrases (Adj or Adv)
Conjunctions
Interjections
9th grade Calendar
Common exercises with answer keys can be found in the Writing and Grammar texts and
supplementary teacher resources. Feel free to add your own materials.
September
-Finding subjects and verbs in sentences (420-427)
-Identifying nouns* (340-354)
*The book differentiates different types of nouns but we feel if the student can
simply identify the noun in a sentence this is where we want them to be.
October/November/December
-Identifying verbs—action, transitive and intransitive, linking, helping. verb phrases
(360-375)
December
Conjunctions and interjections (408-415)
January
-Identifying Pronouns (346-357)
Mid-year assessment
February
-Direct and indirect objects and subject complements—review verbs, nouns, pronouns
(434-438)
March/April
-Adjectives
(378-397)
-Adverbs
April/May
Adverbs/Prepositions (378-397)
May/June
Prepositions/Prepositional phrases/Object of prepositions (400-407)
June
End of year assessment
10th Grade—Note: keep in mind HSPE when doing calendar
-Review 9th grade grammar
-Prepositional phrases—adj/adv
-Verbals/verbal phrases
Participals, gerunds, infinitives
-Clauses (Complex sentences)
Noun, adjective, adverb
11th and 12th
-Review 9th and 10th grade
-verb tenses
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/structure/structure1/tenses.html
-Integrate verbal phrases into writing
-Integrate complex sentences into writing
-Strunk and White???