1. Independent Clause (IC)- a complete sentence
Dependent Clause (DC) - incomplete sentence

2. Independent Clause --- Marge
Marge is an independent woman. She can survive on her own.

3. Dependent Clauses (Homer)
Homer is clueless
when he is on his own.
Without Marge by his side, things go wrong. He is DEPENDENT

4. Compound sentences have two or more ICs joined by a conjunction (FANBOYS).

5. Complex sentences have a DC (Homer) and an IC (Marge)

6. Dependent Clause Starters “AAAWWUBBIS”
After
Although As
When
While
Until
Because
Before If
Since

7. Complex Sentence pattern #1 AAAWWUBBIS + Homer, + Marge.
After Bart passes third grade, there will be a huge celebration.

8. Complex Sentence pattern #2 Marge + AWWUBBISS+ Homer. (NO COMMA)
Lisa will have to live with her parents until she goes to college.

9. **Relate your sentences to the Jamestown picture.
Homework - choose 6 vocabulary words to use in the complex format; use the other 6 in the compound format
**Relate your sentences to the Jamestown picture.