11/18/13
Learning Targets:
1. I can determine what makes a clause.
2. I can recognize dependent and independent clauses.
Bell Ringer:
1. Explain the difference between a clause and a phrase.
2. Explain the difference between and independent and dependent clause.
Agenda:
1. Word Wall Words
2. Clause practice with white boards
3. Types of dependent clause practice sheets
Word Wall Words:
1 Noun
2 Pronoun
4 Preposition
7 Adjective
10 Action Verb
3 Adverb
5 Conjunction
8 Subject
6 Interjection
9 Verb
11 Linking Verb 12 Helping Verb
13 Verb Phrase
14 Phrase 15 Clause
16 Independent Clause
18-19 Comma Rules
17 Dependent Clause
20 Antecedent
21 Infinitives
22 ADJ Clause 23 Noun Clause
24 ADV Clause
25 Ellipsis and Semi-Colon rules
Figurative Language
Pun
Connotations
Denotations
28 Relative Pronouns
26 Subordinating Conjunctions
Noun Clause intro words
27 Colon Rules
11/19/13
Learning Targets:
1. I can determine what makes a clause.
2. I can recognize dependent and independent clauses.
Bell Ringer:
1. Explain the difference between a clause and a phrase.
2. Explain the difference between and independent and dependent clause.
Agenda:
1. Word Wall Words
2. Clause practice with white boards
3. Types of dependent clause practice sheets
11/20/13
Learning Targets:
1. I can determine what makes a clause.
2. I can recognize dependent and independent clauses.
3. I can recognize an adjective, adverb, and noun clause.
Bell Ringer:
1. Explain the difference between a clause and a phrase.
2. Explain the difference between and independent and dependent clause.
Agenda:
1. Word wall words—dependent clause starters
2. Clause practice with white boards
3. Types of dependent clause practice sheets
11/21/13
Learning Targets:
1. I can determine what makes a clause.
2. I can recognize dependent and independent clauses.
Bell Ringer:
1. Explain the difference between a clause and a phrase.
2. Explain the difference between and independent and dependent clause.
Agenda:
1. Word Wall Words
2. Clause practice with white boards
3. Types of dependent clause practice sheets
4. Revising sentences to form complex and compound sentences
Revise the following sentences by following the directions in parentheses.
1. The girl drives a car. (Create a complex sentence by adding an adjective clause describing the girl)
2. The girl drives a car. (Create a complex sentence by adding an adverb clause describing how she drove the
car.)
( For sentences 3-8 create a complex sentence by combining these two independent
clauses. Complex = 1 independent + at least one dependent clause.)
3. Inherited traits often skip a generation. You may resemble your grandparents more than your parents.
4. Genes contain code. Code determines your height.
5. You inherit your looks. The origin of your personality is more mysterious.
6. Research on identical twins has fueled a debate. The debate is called the “heredity versus environment”
debate.
7. Identical twins raised in separate families showed amazing similarities. The families were very different.
8. The Brady Bunch Movie shows how out of place the Brady family is in the 1990’s. They are stuck in the
1970’s
9. The family has sack races on the lawn. They still wear polyester clothes. (Combine the sentences to form a
compound sentence.)
10. The Bradys’ neighbor hates them. He tries to force them to move. The Bradys raise enough money to save
their home. (Combine the three sentences to form a compound-complex sentence.)
11-22-13
Learning targets:
1. I can use various types of clauses while also correctly using the comma and semi-colon.
Bell Ringer: Finish revising your sentences from yesterday.
Agenda:
1. Final clause review
2. Thesis Statement
3. Introduce Personal Essay