9th Composition Day Two

     Agenda: 08/26/2014 -Day Two

     Learning Objective: Today we will begin analyzing various grammatical structures and will be able to identify both simple and complex sentence structures.

 

  C: Bell Ringer, Grammar Notes, Synonyms For Claim, Homework Practices

  1) Bell Ringer

  2) Discussion Simple Sentences and Complex Sentences

  3) Synonyms For Claim Presentation

  4) Common and Proper Noun Review

  5)Nouns Review: Homework Practices

  Closing: Exit Ticket or Discussion

  H:Get Disclosure signed by Parent and Student(Due: Wednesday August 27, 2014), Noun Review Worksheet (Due Wednesday 08/28/2014)

Bell Ringer: 08/26/2014- Day Two

   Question: Of what does a complete sentence consist? Write an example of a simple and complex sentence.

  A complete sentence consists of a __________and a __________.

  Simple Sentence Example:

  Complex Sentence Example:


Definition Of A Simple and Complex Sentence

Simple Sentence: A sentence with only one independent clause (also known as a main clause).

  The simple sentence is one of the four basic sentence structures. The other structures are the compound sentence, the complex sentence, and the compound-complex sentence.

  Simple Sentence Examples:

•"Children are all foreigners."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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"Mother died today."
(Albert Camus, The Stranger, 1942)
 

•"Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time."
(Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger)

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"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead."
(James Thurber)

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"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph."
(Ken Kesey)

Complex Sentence: A sentence that contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause.

•The complex sentence is one of the four basic sentence structures. The other structures are the simple sentence, the compound sentence, and the compound-complex sentence.

  Complex Sentence Examples:

  Martina laughed when her mother dropped a pie upside down on the floor.

 

"[W]hen my brother got his pants leg caught on the top of a high fence and hung upside down, weeping and muttering curses because his pants were newly torn and Mother would spank him for sure, no angel was with him."
(Gary Soto, A Summer Life. University Press of New England, 1990)

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"The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman stood up in a corner and kept quiet all night, although of course they could not sleep."
(L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1990)