12.05 - Clauses and Simple Sentences

At the beginning of class today, we prepared for our roots and prefixes quiz for set 8 words by playing a game of root stick. Following this, we reviewed the definitions of subject and verb to help us look at independent clauses, dependent clauses, and simple sentences (see handout below).

After discussing these clauses and the simple sentence we started working with and discussing the provided examples. People should complete this assignment for homework:

Handouts:

Sentence Types and Structures
(pages 1 and 2 only)


Homework:

Complete the simple sentence activities from today's handout on sentence types and structures.

Read to page 130 in The Road for Monday.

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Revisions:

Socratic Seminar Prep Sheet for Episode 538: "Is This Working" of This American Life (due Fri, 12/12)

Why Should Someone Read Your Poem (POL Prompt) (due Fri. 12/12)