Today we practiced identifying sentence types with a worksheet.  If you were absent today, complete the page for practice.  The second page has the answers so that you can check your work.

Here's an online grammar game to practice identifying clauses & phrases.

Grammar Quiz tomorrow.

You should be able to identify the difference between clauses and phrases.  I will give you sentences with clauses & phrases underlined, and you will have to identify whether the underlined portion is an independent or dependent clause or a phrase.  Then, you will need to identify whether the entire sentence is simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.  STUDY!!!

Writing Exercise #7

Take a look at last week's top rated TV programming according to the Nielsen ratings:

Nielsen Ratings week of January 14, 2013

Based on that list and yesterday's TED talk, write a well-developed paragraph in which you discuss what current popular television reveals about our society's values.

Organization Strategy:  Division and Classification

Before you begin writing, decide what "categories" you would create to group the different types of programs.

Don't forget about vocabulary.  You have 5 sentences due Thursday and a quiz.

Next Tuesday, February 5th you will have a vocabulary test on lists 10, 11, and 12.  Here are the Flashcards for the combined lists in case you want to begin preparing for the test already.