1. tUESday August 22 2ND AGENDA:
Review quick question over yesterday
School House Rock: conjunctions!
Whole class activity: make grammatically correct groups
Chromebooks= “a week in the life of…”
or Trivia over sentence structure
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Identify an independent and/or dependent clause

2. Quick Questions What is a dependent clause?
What is an independent clause?
What are the 3 ways to join two independent clauses? ?
What is the 1 way to join an independent clause with a dependent clause?

3. Group Activity
Each of you has one of the following: independent, dependent, punctuation with a conjunction, punctuation
Create groups With at least 2 and no more than 3 people to create a compound/complex sentence
the sentence does NOT have to make logical sense, but it must be grammatically correct
Don’t worry about ending the sentence with puncuation

4. Tuesday August 22 BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
1st AGENDA:
Sentence Structure practice
Trivia Style
On your own
Journal #4 “Essential”
Practice as a class
Chromebooks= “a week in the life of…” first work day
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Identify an independent and/or dependent clause

5. Trivia???? Small groups/teams Create a school appropriate team name
Each team/group gets answer choices (a,b,c,d and f, g,h,j)
We will review questions on the board
Mr. Craven will read the question and answer choices, you will get a set amount of time to confer with your team and pick a letter/answer choice
Once mr. craven says it is time, on the count of three every team will show their choice at once and hold it
Once mr. craven gets your score, we will then go over the question and answer choices
Remember the goal of this is to learn!!!! If learning is not taking place, we will not play trivia

6. Trivia???? Mr. Craven’s favorite college sports team is?UL UK
TENNESSEE
DUKE
Mr. Craven’s dog is named?
MONTREZL
HUCKLEBERRY
PAPI CUTEFACE
TWAIN
Mr. Craven’s daughter’s name is?
CARTER
ANN
WILEY
MARLEY

7. 8/24 Journal #3 “Essential”
Does anyone have a friend that interrupts conversations just to add unimportant information?
Any and all thoughts/ideas about the word “essential”
What does the prefix “non” mean?
If something is non-essential, what does that mean?

8. Non-essential/restrictive clauses/phrases
The man who ordered the double anchovy pizza claims to own a pet dolphin
Mr. Craven who ordered the double anchovy pizza claims to own a pet dolphin
First one:
(essential to answer the question which?)
Grammatically correct!
Second one:
Adds to, but isn’t essential.
Dependent clause

9. Non-essential/restrictive clauses/phrases
Freddy hopes to return to the city where he met a woman with purple eyes and white hair
Freddy hopes to return to dragonstone where he met a woman with purple eyes and white hair
The author who wrote “The Raven” died from alcohol abuse.
Edgar Allen poe who wrote “The Raven” died from alcohol abuse.

10. Thursday August 24 BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
1st AGENDA:
How’d yesterday go?
Review essential/non-essential
practice over ess/non-ess; on your own
Chromebooks= “a week in the life of…”
Due tomorrow! How?
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Identify an independent and/or dependent clause

11. Non-essential/restrictive clauses/phrases Independent practice
The man who ordered the double anchovy pizza claims to own a pet dolphin
(essential to answer the question which?)
Grammatically correct!
Mr. Craven, who ordered the double anchovy pizza, claims to own a pet dolphin
Adds to, but isn’t essential.
Dependent clause
14 COMMAS: NO MORE, NO LESS!

12. mONday August 28 BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: 1st AGENDA:
Questions/Concerns about turning in “a week in the life of…”
Trivia to review sentence structure( what we’ve learned so far)
Show what you’ve learned:
Revisit ACT English test: only questions having to do with Sentence Structure
BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Identify an independent and/or dependent clause

13. Revisit ACT Sentence Structure
Now that we have covered sentence structure, show what you know
Once you are finished, please bring your scantron to mr. craven and see your results
Any questions you missed, please review and learn from your mistakes
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