Friday, January 10, 2014

Introduction to Chu Ju's House

Aims:
1. IWBAT demonstrate mastery of identifying independent and dependent clauses in sentences.
2. IWBAT describe China's solution to its overpopulation problem, the one-child policy.
3. IWBAT make predictions about what will happen in Chu Ju's House.


Tasks:
1. Do Now: review for quiz
  • Review these terms:
    • independent clause: a complete thought (could be its own sentence); has subject and predicate
    • dependent clause: an incomplete thought (could NOT be its own sentence); has subject and predicate; always begins with and includes a subordinating conjunction (WANNABE)
    • phrase: not a clause because it doesn't have BOTH a subject AND a predicate; usually a preposition and an object
    • complex sentence: formed by joining a dependent clause to an independent clause
  • Practice activities:

2. Quiz #11: Clauses & Complex Sentences on ExitTicket
  • Finished Early? Read silently, or continue completing practice activities in Task #1.

3. Homework checkA Panda for a Pet?

4. Finish one-child policy video:




5. Introduction to Chu Ju's House

6. Read Chapter 1 of Chu Ju's House: pp. 1-18


7. Exit Slip:


Homework: Best Inventions of 2014 (TFK)


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