Morning Agenda

① Check HW—Parallelism Revision

② Reading 1A

③ Journal Assignment 1

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1 PREVIEW

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2 PREDICT

• Your journal will be a weekly,

semi-guided assignment. It will

be due at the start of class on

Mondays.

• The journal will account for 5%

of your final grade at the end of

the term.

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT #1

• You will write three pages, double-spaced

in your journal. Due on MONDAY.

• Your teacher will give you one question.

You should write at least ONE page about

this question.

• The other pages can be about almost

anything.*

• *Keep your topics appropriate for your

audience (that’s me!)

What Do You

Think?

p.10Write a one page journal

entry about ONE of the

questions.

Afternoon Agenda

① Finish Up Morning Activities

② Grammar, Chapter 9

① Clauses

② Types of Sentences (part 1)

Types

of

Sentences

A sentence is a group of words that contains a

subject and a verb, and can stand alone*.

Here are some sentences.

• Ecology is science.

• Gino bought flowers for Tina.

• Most people do not think of peanuts

when they think of poisons, but

serious peanut allergies are putting a

growing number of individuals at risk

for death.

A clause is a group of related

words that contains a subject

and a verb.*

C L A U S E S

• Ecology is a science.

• because pollution causes cancer

• if you get this email before class

• whom you met last year

N O T C L A U S E S

• to protect the

environment

• after surviving a

long illness

• newly redesigned

model

Let’s look at some examples.

Harry Potter went to

Hogwarts.

When Harry Potter went to

Hogwarts

Harry Potter went to

Hogwarts.

When Harry Potter went to

Hogwarts

Independent

Clause

(It’s a

complete

sentence.)

When Harry Potter went to

Hogwarts he brought his owl

Hedwig.

Now this is complete sentence. It has

a dependent clause AND and

independent clause.

LET’S REVIEW!

• What is a clause?

• What is an independent

clause?

• What is dependent clause?

MORE ABOUT DEPENDENT CLAUSES

A dependent clause includes a

subordinator. Subordinat

orSubject Verb

…whenHarry

Potterwent to Hogwarts

…whom the voters elected

If you getthis email before

class

Subordinators

after before that when which

althougheven

thoughthough whenever while

as, just as how unless where who

as if if until wherever whom

as soon as since what whether whose

because so that since soin order

that

Look at Appendix B, p292-294

SIMPLE SENTENCES

Simple sentences have one independent

clause.

• There is hike today at 4:00.

• Sci-fi and drama are my two favorite

kinds of movies.

• Can you study and watch TV at the

same time?

COMPOUND SENTENCES

Compound sentences have two or more

independent clauses.

There are three kinds of compound

sentences.

COMPOUND SENTENCES

compound sentence 1: with a coordinator

• She can’t come to the hike today, so we

will go for a hike on Saturday.

COMPOUND SENTENCES

compound sentence 2: with a conjunctive

adverb

• She can’t come to the hike today;

therefore, we will go for a hike on

Saturday.

COMPOUND SENTENCES

compound sentence 3: with a semicolon

• She can’t come to the hike today; we will

go for a hike on Saturday.