1. Author: Jackie Mims Hopkins Genre: Modern Fairy Tale
Big Question: What is unique about the landscape of the Southwest?
Author:
Jackie Mims Hopkins
Genre:
Modern Fairy Tale

2. Grammar
Compound Sentences

3. Compound Sentences
Reba Jo made a promise, but she tried to break it.
This is a compound sentence. When two simple sentences are joined by a comma and a connecting word such as and, but, or or, or when they are connected with a semicolon and no connecting words, they make a compound sentence.

4. Compound Sentences
A compound sentence is made up of two simple sentences joined by a comma and a connecting word such as and, but, or or.
The two sentences in a compound sentence must have ideas that make sense together.

5. Compound Sentences
Simple Sentences: The horned toad looks like a toad. It is really a lizard.
Compound Sentence: The horned toad looks like a toad, but it is really a lizard.

6. Compound Sentences Is the sentence a simple or compound sentence?
Reba Jo loved to ride and play her guitar.
simple sentence
The wind blew her hat away, and she rode after it.
compound sentence

7. Compound Sentences Is the sentence a simple or compound sentence?
Reba Jo wanted her hat, but she was frightened.
compound sentence
The horned toad spoke to her and found her hat.
simple sentence

8. Compound Sentences Is the sentence a simple or compound sentence?
Give me some chili, or I will tell your father.
compound sentence

9. Compound Sentences Join each pair of simple sentences to make a compound sentence. Use the word and, but, or or.
The horned toad knocked on the door. Reba Jo’s father let him in.
The horned toad knocked on the door, and Reba Jo’s father let him in.

10. Compound Sentences Join each pair of simple sentences to make a compound sentence. Use the word and, but, or or.
Reba Jo had made a promise. She did not want to keep it.
Reba Jo had made a promise, but she did not want to keep it.
She gave the horned toad some chili. He gobbled it up.
She gave the horned toad some chili, and he gobbled it up.

11. Compound Sentences Join each pair of simple sentences to make a compound sentence. Use the word and, but, or or.
The toad asked Reba Jo to kiss him. At first she refused.
The toad asked Reba Jo to kiss him, but at first she refused.

12. Compound Sentences Join each pair of simple sentences to make a compound sentence. Use the word and, but, or or.
A cowgirl had to kiss the horned toad. He would never become a prince.
A cowgirl had to kiss the horned toad, or he would never become a prince.