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Today, first and fourth periods learned about the final type of sentence, the compound complex sentence.

Compound-Complex Sentence

• two or more independent clauses
• one or more dependent clause
• combination of compound and complex sentence types

Examples

1. Although I like to go camping, I haven’t had the time to go lately, and I haven’t found anyone to go with.
2. We decided that the movie was too violent, but our children, who like to watch scary movies, thought that we were wrong.
3. I usually use a pick whenever I play the guitar, or I just use my fingers.

Compound-complex sentence examples for first and fourth period.

Then, they discussed events that they think may foreshadow a future event in the novel with seven different classmates. To follow up, we then discussed the events as a class, and determined a “formula” for what foreshadowing is.

Today second and seventh periods started to the book Monster and they also acted it out.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • finish reading through chapter 40 by Friday;
  • if you wish to get ahead, chapter 45 must be read by Monday;
  • 20 entries must be in the themes database by midnight tonight.