Week 4
Homework:
- Please complete all requirements in the Week 4 Daily Schedule.
- Check the boxes on the Daily Schedule as your complete the work
- Be sure to check DONE on your Module Checklists when you complete assignments.
- Fill out the self-evaluation Rubric on 3.9, and add your points to the Apprentice Log in the back of the book. Remember: 10 points = 1 box. No half boxes.
- Your FINAL DRAFT of your When I Was Young sentences is due next week.
- Watch the videos below about Subjects and Predicates.
- Please complete the Grammar assignments in the workbook. They are about Subjects and Predicates.
Subject and Predicate Videos
This video teaches a very basic introduction to subjects and predicates.
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This video teaches the difference between
simple, complete and compound subjects. |
This video teaches the difference between
simple, complete and compound predicates. |
Simple, Complete and Compound: Types of Subjects and Predicates
Noun: A person, place, thing or idea. The subject of the sentence is a noun.
Verb: What the subject is doing or being.
Subject: A fancy word that tells who or what the sentence is about.
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Simple: one word.
Complete: a string of words that tells all of the details.
Compound: more than one subject or more than one predicate.
Includes a Coordinating Conjunction.
Coordinating Conjunction: (FANBOYS) for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. Words that link 2 or more ite
Compound Subject: 2 or more nouns that the sentence is about. Contains a coordinating conjunction.
Noun: A person, place, thing or idea. The subject of the sentence is a noun.
Verb: What the subject is doing or being.
- Action verbs: things that the subjects can actually do.
- Helping/Linking verbs: is, are, was, were, have, has, has, could have, should have, would have, etc.
Subject: A fancy word that tells who or what the sentence is about.
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Simple: one word.
- Simple subject: the 1-word noun that the sentence is about.
- The dog barked at the noisy, gray squirrel.
- Simple predicate: the 1-word verb that tells what the subject is doing OR being.
- The dog is brown.
- The dog barked.
Complete: a string of words that tells all of the details.
- Complete subject: the part of the sentence that includes the noun and fully describes the subject..
- The dog with the blue collar barked at the noisy, gray squirrel.
- Complete predicate: the part of the sentence containing the verb that fully describes what the subject is being or doing. The dog with the blue collar barked at the noisy, gray squirrel.
Compound: more than one subject or more than one predicate.
Includes a Coordinating Conjunction.
Coordinating Conjunction: (FANBOYS) for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. Words that link 2 or more ite
Compound Subject: 2 or more nouns that the sentence is about. Contains a coordinating conjunction.
- Mary and Joseph.... New York, Detroit, or Chicago.... peas and carrots.... faith and reason.....
- ...skipping, running and jumping ...is and was
Extra Credit:
If you would like an extra prize from The Prize Bowl,
you may turn your 10 sentences into an actual story.
Each paragraph should start with one of your, "When I was young" sentences,
and then be folllowed by 2 or more supporting sentences.
If you do this with each of your 10 sentences, you will end up with a 10 paragraph story!
Use this book, "When I Was Young in the Mountains," as your guide: