Week 6 Recap & Notes

Hi parents!

I hope you all enjoyed your break last week!  Let's recap what we covered in class today.

EEL:  Today we introduced a new sentence structure (compound), sentence pattern (S-Vt-DO), & part of speech (conjunctions).  Study Chart H this week and make an effort to commit the lists of coordinating (FANBOYS) and subordinating (www.asia.wub) conjunctions to memory.  This will benefit you greatly as the year progresses.

We also looked at diagramming S-Vt-DO sentences, and also compound sentences.  If you have trouble remembering the Question Confirmation for our sentences, refer to the section at the end of week 3 (Special Section: Analytical Task Sheets in Detail).

Work through the task sheet for your sentences found on page 433 (remember to come up with new, easier sentences if they cannot do days 4 & 5), and tackle this week's editing exercise.  Another good exercise would be to go through the examples of compound sentences found on Chart G and break them down into single independent clauses.

Another point I didn't mention in class is to remind your students that if a verb is followed by a prepositional phrase, it is not a transitive verb.  I believe one of their sentences this week has an example like that.  Review prepositions with them so they will be able to notice what is a prepositional phrase and what is a direct object (with a possible article adjective).

I did not cover Task 5A because of time limits, but the students have already practiced this and can continue doing this on the task sheet.  They can also move to the first part of 5B, and practice making their compound sentence into a simple sentence.

IEW:  We continued our study of Story Sequence Charts.  We are working through Lesson 9 in the Student Book.  If they haven't done so already, have your students work through the outline pages in the student book, brainstorm for dress-ups, and write their rough draft.  If they've already made it that far, have them work through their checklist this week and write their final draft.  Please bring the final draft to class to read next week.  We will be on this unit one more week before moving on to the next unit.

Thanks for all your hard work!  Hope everyone has a great week!