1. Warm-Up A semicolon joins together two independent clauses. Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A. Liam Neesan needs the Albanian translated; when he arrives in Paris. B. I have watched two Liam Neesan movies this weekend; he is awesome. C. The girls should have told their parents where they were really going; or stayed home. D. Before this movie; the actress was on Lost.

2. Sentence Types: Take notes! Review

3. Simple Sentence One independent clause Ex: I had never felt so utterly on my own.

4. Compound Sentence Two or more independent clauses Ex: Mrs. Everhard, my new homeroom teacher, made an introduction of sorts, and every student turned around to study me.

5. Complex Sentence One independent and at least one dependent clause I was neither blessed nor cursed, depending on how you looked at it, with skin milky enough to classify me as white or swarthy enough to render me black.

6. Compound-Complex Sentence Two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause When Harry doesn’t get enough sleep, he gets cranky, and then he’s not very nice.

7. Write an example of each sentence type. Pg. 109

8. 2.7 Author’s Stylebook: Syntactical Variety Language and Writer’s Craft

9. Varying Sentence Beginnings Sentence BeginningExampleYour turn! Beginning with a wordStunned, Gretchen burst into tears. Beginning with a phraseUnable to believe her eyes, Gretchen burst into tears. Beginning with a clauseBecause she was not expecting a surprise party, Gretchen burst into tears.

10. Unit One Exam Part Two Look over what you missed. Questions?

11. Embedded Assessment 2 Write an Argument 169

12. Unpack Embedded Assessment Two Read the assignment. Read the rubric. Make a poster, detailing the requirements of Embedded Assessment #2. Brainstorm issues around the perimeter of your poster. Your poster should be creative. Each person needs to participate.

13. Gallery Walk What are some issues that you could write an argument about?