Transcript simple subject

Day 13
Instructor: KYLE BRITT
Agenda
• Warm Up: Vocabulary Note Cards
• Eng I: Unit 2
• Honors: Unit 3
• Author’s Purpose
• Practice
• Subject of a Sentence
• Practice
Objectives
• Understand and Identify Author’s Purpose in a text
• Understand and Identify the Subject of a sentence
Knight-Time
• We will be meeting in C209.
• We will be focusing on grammar this week.
• Come with questions or concerns.
Warm Up
• Please pass your permission slips forward.
• Open your vocabulary books and start making note cards for:
• Eng I: Unit 2
• Honors: Unit 3
• Return Answer sheets for “Wolves” and “Amy Tan”
• Practice week.
Annotation Guidelines for Week 2
Beyond standard annotation requirements, please complete the following:
• Read: “Earthquake Damage”
• Highlight and summarize significant details.
• Write the number of the questions beside the portion of the text that best supports your response. Then,
highlight the text.
• Read: “Leading Women”
• Highlight Golda Meir’s comment to the King of Jordan in the third paragraph. In the margin, explain her
tone and summarize what you think she meant be her comment.
• Highlight and annotate diction and details which support how the author feels about Golda Meir.
• Annotate characteristics of Golda Meir and Aung San Suu Kyi in the margins.
Author’s Purpose
• Why are they writing this?
• What are they trying to do?
• Inform
• Persuade
• Entertain
• Explain (how to)
Group Exercise – Poe’s Death
• Take a worksheet for the theories surrounding Poe’s death.
• Read the 4 articles, One per person in the group.
• Annotate your article and discuss it with the group.
• Find the main point, supporting details, and author’s purpose
• After everyone has finished their worksheets write a short response
indicating your opinion on the topic. Use textual evidence. Formulate a
theory on Poe’s mysterious death.
Grammar: Subject of a Sentence
• Sentences consist of two main parts:
• Subject (who or what the sentence is about)
• Predicate (tells you something about the subject)
Example: Cary never sleeps during English class.
The Subject
• The main word or group of words that tells whom or what the sentence is
about is called the simple subject.
Example: Mary likes to eat pizza on Tuesdays.
Mary is the simple subject as the sentence is about her.
• Complete subject consists of the simple subject and any words, phrases, or
clauses that modify the simple subject.
Example: Out of the beaker rose a foul-smelling foam.
How do you find it?
• To identify the subject, find the verb and ask “who” or what?”
Ex: Here you can swim year-round.
Verb: can swim
Who can swim?
Subject: You
More about subjects
• The subject of a verb is never in a prepositional phrase.
• Ex: Most of the women voted. (Who voted? Most is the subject as women is the
object of a preposition)
Find the Subject and Verb
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5.
Oregon is haunted by numerous legends of the Bigfoot.
Are two of the books missing?
She served as corporation president.
Jazz music filled the room.
There is Aunt Ivory’s new truck
truck.
Find the Subject and Verb
6. Please answer the phone. (understood you)
7. Was the train late? (hint: turn the question into a statement)
8. Many regions of the United States have local legends. (Prep phrase)
9. The band’s star performer was the drummer.
10. Buzzing around the room was a large mosquito.
Closing
• Homework: Finish vocabulary notecards.