Tuesday, October 7, 2008

This Week in Language Arts

5th and 6th Grade
Students are working on prepositions and prepositional phrases. Students will have a preposition quiz on Friday, October 10, 2008. Both grade levels have been doing well learning about prepositions as well as a preposition song.

7th Grade
Students are working on comparative and superlative adverbs and adjectives. Our week began with a quick review of adverbs and adjectives and their modifiers. The week will end with students understanding and demonstrating their mastery of superlative and comparative modifiers, by passing their grammar quiz on Friday, October 10, 2008
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Sentence Structure Unit

Sentence Structure Unit November - December

Our new Language Arts unit is sentence structure. Students will explore the various forms of sentence structure such as simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compund-complex sentences. The unit will begin with understanding subject and predicate and writing simple sentences, then progress to compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.

Our Georgia Standards Focus
5th grade ELA5C1
6th grade ELA6C1
7th grade ELAC1

Sentence Structure Definitions

  • Complex Sentence - is a sentence that contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate(dependent) clauses.
  • Compound Sentence - contains two independent clauses
  • Sentence - word or group of words that have a subject and a predicate and express a complete thought
  • Simple Sentence - contains one independent clause
  • Complete Subject - ALL the words that tell who or what the sentence is about
  • Simple Subject - the main word or words that tell who or what the sentence is about
  • Complete Predicate - the verb and ALL the words that describe the verb and complete the sentence meaning
  • Simple Predicate - the word or words that tell what the subject is doing. The simple predicate is the VERB

Don't be fooled by a Subordinate (dependent clause)

Subordinate (dependent) Clause

A subordinate clause does not express a complete though and cannot stand alone as a sentence.

Subordinate clauses DEPEND on an independent clause to make a sentence and express a complete thought.

BE CAREFUL subordinate clauses can contain a subject and predicate.

Parts of Speech Unit

Parts of Speech Unit September - November
Since the beginning of school we have been working on parts of speech. This is a lengthy skill, where each grade level has a different aspect of the eight parts of speech to focus on. The depth and complexity of the skill depends on the grade. Please follow our journey through parts of speech at http://www.georgiastandards.org/ The website will give you a description of the standard and the topics covered. We are are projected to complete parts of speech by November. The unit will end with a parts of speech performance assessment.
Our current Georgia Standard focus
5th grade ELA5C1
6th grade ELA6C1
7th grade ELA7C1
The next unit for all grades will be Sentence Structure

End of Year Project

Students have the option of making a powerpoint of their end of the year project. All powerpoints must be mailed to jada.byron@imagineschools.com

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