The Immigrant Contribution | Sentence Structure

Objective: Jedis will be able to identify an author's purpose and distinguish between appeals to authority, appeals to reason, and appeals to emotion.

Agenda:
1. Meditation & Journal: What is Mental Health? Is it important to be aware of your mental health? What are three things you can do to help your mental health?
2. Sentence Structures are like families.

  • Independent clause (Like an Adult)
    • Subject & Verb
      • Complete Idea/Can be its own sentence/Can take care of itself
  • Dependent Clause (Like a child)
    • Subject & Verb
      • Incomplete idea/cannot be its own sentence/need an independent clause (adult) in the sentence with it.
        • Begin with:
          • A subordinating conjunction
            • when, although, because, while
          • A relative pronoun
            • who, whose, which, that

3. Review and Identify parts of sentence in exemplars on pg 33
4. Partner work| Read It:

  • Circle the subject
  • Box the verb
  • Underline the Independent clause
  • Double Underline the Dependent Clause
  • Highlight subordinating conjunction and it's comma yellow
  • Identify any relative pronouns
  • Label each sentence as either a simple sentence, a compound sentence, a complex sentence, or a compound-complex sentence
Homework:
Read 30
Study for Trial 2: North America Test (Thurs/Fri)
Write a paragraph about a topic of your choice. This paragraph must include a simple sentence, a compound sentence, a complex sentence, and a compound-complex sentence. Identify all the parts of each sentence and label which sentence structure it is.

  • Circle the subject
  • Box the verb
  • Underline the Independent clause
  • Double Underline the Dependent Clause
  • Highlight subordinating conjunction and it's comma yellow
  • Identify any relative pronouns

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