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Readers/Writers Notebook. DO NOT SKIP LINES!Choose your answer. (2 min. )

Identify the underlined portion. 10-4-17

One station focuses on understanding theme while another station focuses on responding to prompts.

A. Independent Clause

B. Subordinate Clause

C. Main Clause

D. Phrase

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Answer and Explanation(2 min)

B. Subordinate Clause

Explanation: “While another station focuses on responding to prompts” has a subject of “station” and a verb/predicate of “focuses” and begins with an AAAWWWUUBBIS word.

D.E.A.R. (10 minutes) [AR Reading]

Read your library book and complete a DEAR chart.

Homework Agenda Book, page 34

•NH

Objective & Essential Question

• SWBAT identify and create various clauses and sentence structures.

• EQ: What is the importance of making independent and dependent clauses? (page 100, prepare for Cornell Notes)

• An independent/main clause is like a simple sentence with a subject, verb, and a complete thought.

subject verb

Example: The students worked hard.

• A dependent/subordinate clause has an AAAWWWUUBBIS word/subordinate conjunction or a relative pronoun at the beginning, but it is not a complete sentence by itself.

AAAWWWUUBBIS subject verb

Example: Because the students worked hard.

RP Sub Vb

Example: No one knew that the students worked hard.

AAAWWWUUBBIS = after, although, as, when, where, while, unless, until, before, because, if, since

Relative Pronouns = that, which, who, whom,whose

Practice: Identifying Phrases vs. Clauses

• http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/phrase_or_clause/quiz2825.html

Notes Continued…How to Join Clauses• Simple sentence = 1 independent clause

• Compound sentence = 1 independent clause + 1 independent clauseExample: The students wrote notes today, but they also used paddles for

practice.

• Complex sentence = 1 independent clause + 1 dependent clauseExample: The teacher typed notes while the students copied them into

their journals.

Regular English - Station LearningYou will Need 2 Sheets of Paper

• Station 1 - Completing Cornell Notes for Sentence Structure (Highlight, 5 Questions, Summary)

• Station 2 –Forming Compound and Complex Sentences

• Station 3 – Identifying Independent Clauses vs. Dependent Clauses Part 1 (1-15)

• Station 4 –Identifying Independent Clauses vs. Dependent Clauses Part 2 (16-39)

• Station 5 – Reviewing How to Deconstruct a Prompt

• Station 6 – Introduction to Theme (write in your composition book, novel notes section)

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Regular English - Station Learning (17 minutes each)You will Need 2 Sheets of Paper (You will need paper for stations 2,3,4,5,7)

• Station 1 - Complete Cornell Notes for Sentence Structure (Highlight very important notes in your journal

from yesterday, create 5 Questions to go along with the highlights, and complete the summary)

• Station 2 –Create 10 Compound and 10 Complex Sentences (Write on your own paper. Use the examples for

help.)

• Station 3 – Identify the clauses as Independent or Dependent Part 1 (#’s 1-15) [Copy all and label. Circle the

subordinate conjunction if the sentence has one.]

• Station 4 –Identify the clauses as Independent or Dependent Part 2 (#’s 16-31) [Copy all and label. Follow the

specific directions for 28-31.]

• Station 5 – Reviewing How to Deconstruct a Prompt (Go to the computers. The assignment is on the screen.)

• Station 6 – Introduction to Theme (write in your composition book, novel notes section)

When the timer alarms, go in order to the next station number.

Pre-AP English - Station Learning (17 minutes each)You will Need 2 Sheets of Paper (You will need paper for stations 2,3,4,5,7)

• Station 1 - Complete Cornell Notes for Sentence Structure (Highlight very important notes in your journal

from yesterday, create 5 Questions to go along with the highlights, and complete the summary)

• Station 2 –Create 10 Compound and 10 Complex Sentences (Write on your own paper. Use the examples for

help.)

• Station 3 – Identify the clauses as Independent or Dependent Part 1 (#’s 1-15) [Copy all and label. Circle the

subordinate conjunction if the sentence has one.]

• Station 4 –Identify the clauses as Independent or Dependent Part 2 (#’s 16-31) [Copy all and label. Follow the

specific directions for 28-31.]

• Station 5 – Reviewing How to Deconstruct a Prompt (Go to the computers. The assignment is on the screen.)

• Station 6 – Introduction to Theme (write in your composition book, novel notes section)

• Station 7 – Applying Theme with the Story “Thank You M’am” (Read the story in the textbook on pages 68-72.

Copy and answer question #8 on page 73)

When the timer alarms, go in order to the next station number. Station 7 will go to station 1.