Date

Class Activities

Homework Assignments

Week 1: Feb. 18

Class Introduction

Diagnostic Exercise

Sentence Parts--WB: Ex. 4-1.

    Parts of Speech

HB

Read pp. 82—111. Complete Ex. 4.1 & 4.3.

WB

Read and study pp. 99—121.

Complete Ex. 4-2.

Using the sentences in Ex. 4-3, identify the nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.  Put parentheses around prepositional phrases and brackets around infinitive phrases. Rewrite or word process the sentences on a sheet of paper.

Do Ex. 4-5 and 4-6.  

Week 2: Feb. 25

Due: WB: Ex. 4-2—4-6 due.

        HB: Ex. 4.1, 4.2 & 4.3.

Continue study of sentence parts and parts of speech.

WB

Study p. 123 -- 129.

Do Ex. 4-7 & 4-8.

Review all previous work and visit Internet sites for more grammar practice. See English 24 website for links to various grammar sites.

Study for a quiz on identifying subjects, verbs, prepositional & infinitive phrases, direct and indirect objects and subject complements.  

Group One's first writing assignment is due at the beginning of class 03/04 or can be e-mailed earlier.

Week 3: March 4

Quiz: Sentence Parts and Parts of Speech

Study pages 149-156 in the workbook and complete exercises 6-1 and 6-2 on combining ideas into a sentence. Also, use Ex. 4-6 to identify various sentence parts: subjects, verbs, infinitive and prepositional phrases and direct objects.

Review the eight parts of speech and how to identify the part of speech of words in a sentence. 

Group Two's first writing assignment is due at the beginning of class 03/11 or can be e-mailed earlier.

Week 4: March 11

Review sentence parts and parts of speech.

 Group One's second writing assignment is due at the beginning of class 03/18 or can be e-mailed earlier.

Week 5: March 18

1. Verbal phrases: gerunds and participles 

2. Diagramming sentences.

 What we have covered or what you should know by now:
a.  The eight parts of speech—their names, definitions, and questions
b.  The major sentence parts—subjects (complete vs. simple), predicates and verbs, direct objects, indirect objects, subject complements, prepositional and infinitive phrases and how these phrases function as adverbs, adjectives or nouns
c.  The rule of subject-verb agreement and how to apply it
d.  The fact that placement of modifiers can affect meaning
e.  Definition for clauses and how to differentiate independent from dependent or subordinating clauses  

Complete the phrase identification worksheet passed out in class.

Diagramming homework to be announced in class.

Group Two's second writing assignment is due at the beginning of class 03/25 or can be e-mailed earlier.

Week 6: March 25

Parallelism: Work on exercises in Ch. 6 from the handbook.

Group One's third writing assignment is due at the beginning of class 04/01 or can be e-mailed earlier.

Study for the quiz on phrases.

Week 7: April 1

1. Group One submits Writing Assignment #3.

2. Quiz: Phrases.

3. Diagramming sentences from Week 5's homework.

4. Ch. 19: Avoiding Misplaced Modifiers in the workbook. Complete Ex. 19-1  in the workbook. 

Group Two's third writing assignment is due at the beginning of class 04/08 or can be e-mailed earlier.

Misplaced modifiers: Ex. 19.2 in the handbook.

Study chapters 13 (Run-ons and Comma Splices) and 14  (Fragments).

Complete exercises 13-3 and  13-5 and 14-2  and 14-5 in the workbook. The work load may be lighter if you word process the sentences instead of handwriting them.

Week 8: April 8

  1. Group Two submits Writing Assignment #3.

 Study Ch. 15: Subject-Verb Agreement. In the workbook, complete Ex. 15-1 through 15-4. Also, complete Ex. 15.1 and 15.2 in the handbook. Study for subject-verb agreement quiz.

Group One's fourth writing assignment is due at the beginning of class 04/22 or can be e-mailed earlier.

pril 14--April 19

Spring Break—No classes.

Week 9: April 22

1. Study fragments.

2. Begin subject-verb agreement.

3. Do proofreading exercises.

http://www.penandpage.com/EngMenu/index_eng.htm

Group Two's fourth writing assignment is due at the beginning of class 04/29 or can be e-mailed earlier.

Study for a subject-verb agreement test.

Week 10: April 29

1. Take the subject-verb agreement test.

2. Verb Tense and Verb Form and Active and Passive Voice

3. To discover your troublesome verbs, do the online diagnostic verb tense exercise.

 Study Ch. 16: Using Verb Forms Correctly in your handbook. Complete Ex. 16.1--16.3. In the workbook, complete Ex. 16-1 through 16-3 and 16-5 and 16-6.

Group One's fifth writing assignment is due at the beginning of class 05/06 or can be e-mailed earlier.

Week 11: May 6

Continue to work on Verb Tenses.

Study for a quiz on Verb Tense to be given Tuesday, May 13.

Group Two's fifth writing assignment is due at the beginning of class 05/13 or can be e-mailed earlier.

Week 12: May 13

 Verb tense and verb form quiz.

  Study Ch. 17: Using Pronouns Correctly in the workbook. Complete Ex. 17-1 through 17-4. Also, study Ch. 17 in your handbook. Complete Ex. 17.1 and 17.3.

Week 13: May 20

    Pronoun Case and Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

  Pronoun Worksheet:

Check website for answers

Week 14: May 27

  More on Pronouns

  Study for the Pronoun Test.

Check the website for the answers to the Verb & Pronoun Agreement homework.

Week 15: June 3

Pronoun Case, Antecedent and Reference Quiz
Review for Final Exam  

Study for  the final exam.

Week 16: June 10

Final Exam