Do Now: 1) Get your Real Life Vocab homework out.

2) Independently complete the pre-test

Why: It’s absolutely essential for your future that you have a solid understanding of punctuation. We need to get to a place where you can identify an independent and dependent clause and what punctuation goes with each.

How: Do now Direct Instruction: Verb Independent Practice: Verb exercises Closure

What: Students will be able to correctly identify the subject and verb within a sentence.

Verb Subject Independent and dependent clauses Correct subject/verb agreement Avoiding run-ons Avoiding fragments Avoiding Comma splices Correctly using a semi-colon

After boot camp, every homework assignment that states “formal English” in the directions will lose points for fragments, run-ons, comma splices, subject/verb agreement errors, and semi-colon errors.

Myth: to find the verb, simply look for the action.

Wondering? Thinking? Love? Dislike?

You can’t just look for the action verb because sometimes the verb isn’t showing action.

Verb

Truth: To find the verb, you need to put yesterday, every day, and tomorrow

at the beginning of the sentence.

Example: I like to walk the dog.

Yesterday I liked to walk the dog.

Every day I like to walk the dog.

Tomorrow I will like to walk the dog.

VerbRule: The verb is the only part of speech

that can change tense (time).

Example: Susan enjoys jogging in the park.

Yesterday Susan enjoyed jogging in the park.

Every day Susan enjoys jogging in the park.

Tomorrow Susan will enjoy jogging in the park.

Verb: enjoys

Try one with a partner.

◦ Sometimes it’s awkward to add yesterday, every day, and tomorrow to a sentence.

◦ You can delete words or add the words in another part of the sentence!

◦ Even though the dog was running, he was still very slow.

◦ Yesterday the dog was running.

◦ Every day the dog runs.

◦ Tomorrow the dog will be running.

Note

Go through the pre-test again and check your verbs. Make any corrections necessary!

Independent Practice

Professor Smith’s literature class will study poetry. The registrar spent two days fixing the schedule after the

college’s computer crashed. England established the first toll roads in 1269. A two-mile linear accelerator lies under the Junipero Serra

freeway near Palo Alto, California. Consumers in the United States discard nearly one hundred

million cell phones annually. Tiffany and Erika will work at a Burger King this summer;

Jasmine will serve as a camp counselor. Sharing an apartment requires compromise. Many people use the internet to reserve hotel rooms. Germany and Japan recycle more than eighty percent of the

glass and paper used in their countries.

Verb

Summary

◦Complete the independent practice.

Homework: