#subordinate clause

Hey, I made this information sheet that hopefully answers your question.

I also made a short quiz, so you can test your knowledge on the topic. You can find it here:

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Clauses and Lit Circles

English 8 students are still finishing up their first round of lit circle work. We’ll be debriefing tomorrow to make a plan for improving the next time we do it.

English I Honors students debriefed their first full lit circle and came up with some good ideas of how to improve next time. We also went over subordinate clauses–the three-minute review version.

English 8 students finished up a review of text structures and subordinate clauses. We’ll be having a test on these topics later this week

English I Honors students worked on their Romeo and Juliet projects.

Test and Part 2 of Douglass

English I Honors students took the test on act 3 of Romeo and Juliet and phrases.

English 8 students went over the subordinate clause homework (see below)

before we went on to part 2 from the Frederick Douglass text.

Subordinate Clauses, New Parallel Structure, and a Due Date

English 8 students took a brief look at subordinate clauses as we build skills to parse the difficult writing we’re finding in Frederick Douglass’s autobiography.

Today was just general practice; tomorrow, we’ll be applying it to another excerpt from Douglass’s biography.

English I Honors students worked on parallel structure again for just a bit, this time looking at how we’ll be applying it…

When you join grammatical units and they contain a main verb, a clause is born. Just like a phrase, a clause is meaningful and forms part of a sentence, but unlike the former, it can be a complete sentence. Thus, a clause is a simple sentence—one that contains a single thought. Examples: He switched off the light. If he cannot sing (dependent/subordinate), send him out (independent). The examples…

English I students finished up yesterday’s work by looking at how to interpret and answer extended essay prompts. Actually writing this composition will be the extra credit assignment for the third quarter. Students are receiving this now in order to have a jump-start on the quarter. English 8 students worked on their articles of the week for a while, before spending some time reviewing…