Whopping Wednesday Choosing Research Topics Prefix vocab time, due tomorrow Summarize yesterday’s discussion with your critical

friend Definitions: Right, Equal, Fair Writing task, due tomorrow

Writing templates

Clauses Homework:

Complete a neat draft of your writing task on paper Prefix vocab assignment

Writing about the Letter from Birmingham Jail

Brainstorm your definition of justice. Summarize King’s definition of justice. Compare and contrast the definitions. Illuminate your analysis with a real world

example. Support your analysis of King’s argument

with a cited quotation.

ClausesGroups of words with their

own subject and verb.

Two Types of Clauses

An independent clause is a complete sentence (subject, predicate, complete thought); it can stand alone.

A dependent (subordinate) clause is part of a sentence; it cannot stand alone.

Independent Clauses

An independent clause contain a subject and a predicate.

It can stand alone as a sentence because it expresses a complete thought, called a simple sentence E.g. She laughed. Sam threw a monkey at

Rachel. He ran away without explaining himself.

Independent Clauses= Subject+Predicate+Modifiers/Complements+COMPLETE THOUGHT

Can be joined with another independent clause (or 2 or 3…) to create a compound sentence E.g. She laughed, and Sam threw a monkey at Rachel. The monkey was angry, Rachel was scared, and it was

very frightening for everyone involved.

Examples of Independent Clauses

Subject Predicate

The door opened.

Dancing burns up 200 to 400 calories per hour.

Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World Series history.

It was the fifth game of the 1956 Series.

Elvis’ twin died at birth.

Dependent/Subordinate Clauses= Subject+Predicate+Modifiers/Complements-complete thought

An dependent clause adds additional information to the main clause, but does not necessarily form a complete thought.

A dependent clause often starts with a word that makes the clause unable to stand alone.

Joining a dependent clause (or 2 or 3) with an independent clause creates a complex sentence.

E.g. Until I met him, I would never have believed Sven Sundgaard is so short.

Sven Sungaard, who is from Cottage Grove, works on TV.

The monkey that is chewing on the little boy bites everyone.