Independent Clauses and Empathy

Independent Clauses and Empathy

English 8 students began a new unit today on the Diary of Anne Frank, our final major reading selection for the year. We began with an anticipation lesson designed to get students empathetic to Anne Frank’s situation and the dangers she faced as the Nazis took...
AOW, Geography, and Clauses

AOW, Geography, and Clauses

We began today going over the AOW that I handed back today. We looked specifically at the following words: concede redolent fraught exclave utopic In addition, we went over a little geography to show how such background knowledge could have helped students figure out...
Clauses

Clauses

Today, after the phrase quiz, we worked on using phrases and clauses together to break sentences down into constituent parts. If the sentence is the base unit, then the next smallest unit would be the clause followed by the phrase. That was the extent of our breakdown...