Literature Circles- Focus on Characterization

Tomorrow, we will be meeting in literature circles as we do each Tuesday. Please make sure you have your reading and roles completed when you arrive to class. Also, make sure that you have your book with you! We will begin to chart our characters and evidence tomorrow, so think about which character you are interested in tracking.

Sentence Types:
Remember to revise your sentence type quiz.
Sentence Type Quiz Revision
For each sentence that you did not correctly identify or construct:
Look back at what you wrote. Why is your answer incorrect? Write a four sentence explanation answering the following questions:
o Which parts of your sentences are Independent and Dependent clauses?
o What makes a sentence compound or complex?
o What type of sentence did you originally write?
o Rewrite this sentence on the same topic, but in using clauses appropriately.

For example, if you wrote the following as a compound sentence:
I play soccer and basketball during Fit for Life.
You could explain:
This sentence is not a compound sentence because it does not join two independent clauses. In order for this to be compound, the words before and after the conjoining conjunction would need to be independent clauses. “I play soccer” is an independent clause, but the phrase after the conjunction “basketball during Fit for Life” is not because it is missing a verb. In order for this sentence to be compound, I could have written:
I play soccer during Fit for Life, but sometimes we play basketball.
If you need some more practice with sentence types"
More practice with sentence types.