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:
• Mild: Identification Practice: click here 
• Medium: Identification Practice: click here <-- RECOMMENDED PRACTICE
• Medium: Sentence Speedway: click here
• Spicy! Kicking It up a Notch: click here
• Spicy! Waaaay More Practice: click here
• Spicy! Complex Sentences: click here

2. Quiz #11: Clauses & Complex Sentences on ExitTicket

• Finished Early? Read silently, or continue completing practice activities in Task #1.

3. Homework check: A 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)