Thursday, August 6, 2009

Toolbox: Diagraming prepositions.

Finishing off Mary Daly's Elementary Diagramming Text,
  • Day 1 Review Using the diagrams on pg 50, covering subject, predicate, adverbs and adjectives. New work - prepositions. Cover the diagramming of prepositions using the sentences on pages 55 and 56. Then independently work on the diagrams on page 56 and 57 to put into practice what we have discussed.
  • Day 2 More prepositions. Working with Discuss using the notes on page 58 whether the preposition modifies the subject the verb of the direct object. Practice diagraming using text on pages 59 - 61

  • Day 3 Continue from previous day using work on pages 62-64.
    Extension if we get extra time look at doing the six sentence shuffle (from Classical Writing Homer, using one of the sentences we have just diagrammed.

  • Day 4 Work through the discussion on clauses and how to diagram sentences with more than one clause.

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