English

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Class 8: July 14, 2016

Student Informa?on Forms

Check your form for mistakes.
If there are mistakes, circle them in blue or
black PEN and correct them.
When your form is correct, please sign the
boGom of the form and return it to me.

Part 1: Grammar
Combining Sentences

Rening by Combining
Technique that lets you avoid choppy, boring
style
Produces gramma?cally correct sentences

4 Ways to Combine
Use a coordina?ng conjunc?on (FANBOYS for,
and, nor, but, yet, so)

1. Holden was nervous when Sunny knocked on the door.
2. Sunny was cold and professional.

Holden was nervous when Sunny knocked on
the door, but Sunny was cold and professional.

4 Ways to Combine
Change a sentence into a subordinate clause

1. Holden was nervous when Sunny knocked on the
door.
2. Sunny was cold and professional.

Although Sunny was cold and professional,
Holden was nervous when Sunny knocked on
the door.

4 Ways to Combine
Change one sentence into a modifying phrase.

1. Holden was nervous when Sunny knocked on the
door.
2. Sunny was cold and professional.

Holden was nervous when Sunny, a cold and
professional escort, knocked on the door.

4 Ways to Combine
Reduce one sentence into a single word
modier.
1. FedEx collects packages on Wednesday.
2. FedEx delivers packages on Thursday.
On Wednesday, FedEx collects packages for Thursday
delivery.

This doesnt work for every sentence.

Exercise 29.2
Do it!
15 minutes.
Hand it in.

Part 2: Reading
Focus: Finishing up chapters 13-15

Comparing and Contras?ng

With your partner, compare your ques?on
sheets.
Fill in the Venn Diagram together
Cite page numbers

Quick Write
As dierent as the Sunny and the nuns were
from each other, Holden interacted in similar
ways in both instances. Why does he do this?
Come to a conclusion about Holdens ability to
connect with people.

Homework
Digital Stories DUE TOMORROW
Review Sentence Structure (Grammar) topics
for quiz tomorrow.
Iden?fying errors in sentences
3 errors per topic (run-on, fragment, modier,
parallelism, sentence combining)

Strict *me limit: 45 minutes