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Book 6

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Introduction and Objectives
Review
ID_R Identifying Passive Voice (Level 5.7, Ex. 1)
3 "How Horatius Kept the Bridge" AK ToC
More Practice with Subordinate Clauses
ID IM Subordinate Clauses as Interjections (Level 3.2.3, Ex. 2) TN
ID IM Direct Object, or Interjection? (Level 3.2.3, Ex. 3) TN
ID IM "So" and "For" as Conjunctions (Level 3.2.2) TN
ID IM Ellipsis in Subordinate Clauses (Level 3.2.1, Ex. 2) TN
ID IM Semi-Reduced Clauses (Level 3.2.1, Ex. 3)
S Semi-Reducing Clauses (Level 3.2.1, Ex. 4)
ID Prepositional Phrase or Ellipsed Clause? (Level 3.2.1, Ex. 5)
Pr Passages for Analysis  (Level 3.2.1, Ex. 6)
JfF Just for Fun
Practice with Embedded Subordinate Clauses (Level 3.1.3)
ID Embedded Subordinate Clauses (Level 3.1.3) TN
Clauses within Clauses (Embedding) Identifying Clauses -- The Procedure
From the Writing of Sixth Graders AK ToC
An Introduction to Appositives and Post-Positioned Adjectives
ID IM Appositives (Level 5.4, Ex. 1) TN
40 "The Birds of Killingworth," adapted from Longfellow AK ToC
41 From The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett AK ToC
ID IM Post-Positioned Adjectives (Level 5.5, Ex. 1) TN
42 From Heidi, by Johanna Spyri AK ToC
43 From The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett AK ToC
Identifying the Three Types of Verbals
ID Mixed Verbals (Level 4.1, Ex. 1) TN
62 From the Writing of Sixth Graders AK ToC
63 From The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte AK ToC
64 From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell AK ToC
ID Mixed Verbals - Passages for Analysis
(Level 4.1, Ex. 3)
65 Aesop's "The Ants and the Grasshopper" AK ToC
66 From Vredenburg's "Bluebeard" AK ToC
67 "The High Dive," by a Sixth Grader AK ToC
Verbals -- A Focus on Gerunds
ID IM Identifying Gerunds (Level 4.2, Ex. 1) TN
44 Gerunds (#1) AK ToC
45 Gerunds (#2) AK ToC
ID The Subjects of Gerunds (Level 4.2, Ex. 2)
46 Adapted from Beveridge's English for Use AK ToC
ID Gerunds as Nouns Used as Adverbs (Level 4.2, Ex. 3)
47 From 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne AK ToC
Verbals -- A Focus on Gerundives
ID Identifying Gerundives (Level 4.3, Ex. 1) TN
48 From The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett AK ToC
49 From Heidi, by Johanna Spyri AK ToC
ID Gerundives - A Passage for Analysis (Level 4.3, Ex. 2)
50 From Vredenburg's "The White Cat" AK ToC
JfF Gerundives - Just for Fun (Level 4.3, Ex. 7)
51 Robert Southey's "The Cataract of Lodore" AK ToC
Verbals -- A Focus on Infinitives
ID Identifying Infinitives (Level 4.4, Ex. 1) TN
52 Mixed Infinitives (Maxwell L4 04) AK ToC
53 From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell AK ToC
ID Subjects of Infinitives (Level 4.4, Ex. 2)
54 From "Snow Queen," by H. C. Andersen AK ToC
ID Infinitives as Subjects and Complements (Level 4.4, Ex. 3)
55 From The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett AK ToC
ID IM Infinitives as Objects of Prepositions (Level 4.4, Ex. 4)
56 From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell AK ToC
ID Infinitives as Adjectives, Adverbs or Interjections
(Level 4.4, Ex. 5)
57 Infinitives as Adjectives or Adverbs (# 1) AK ToC
58 From Vredenburg's My Favorite Fairy Tales AK ToC
ID IM Ellipsed Infinitives (Level 4.4, Ex. 6)
59 From The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett AK ToC
60 From Heidi, by Johanna Spyri AK ToC
Pr Infinitives - A Passage for Analysis (Level 4.4, Ex. 7)
61 Aesop's Fables "The Wolf and the Housedog" AK ToC
Studies in Punctuation
P-Pr IM The Punctuation and Logic of Main Clauses
(Level 3.1.1, Ex. 2)		 TN
5 From Lassie, Come Home, by Eric Knight (Ex # 2) AK ToC
P-Pr Syntax and Logic - Compounding Main Clauses
(Level 3.1.1, Ex. 3)
6 Combining Main Clauses (Ex. 1) AK ToC
P-Pr Treasure Hunt (and/or Recipe Roster)
(Level 3.1.1, Ex. 4)
7 Treasure Hunt (and/or Recipe Roster) NA -
P-Pr
Writing Compound Sentences with a Dash, Colon, or Semicolon (Level 3.1.1, Ex. 5}
8 Exercise NA ToC
P IM A Study of Semicolons - Cohesion TN
P IM A Study of Colons TN
P IM A Study of Dashes TN
P IM Semicolons, Colons, and Dashes TN
P Replacing Lost Punctuation (Level 1.7, Ex. 9)
Semicolons and Comparison/Contrast Paragraphs
(Level 6.6)
- A Writing Assignment: Cats and Dogs? ToC
More about the Passive Voice (Level 5.7)
ID-R IM Identifying Passive Voice (Level 5.7, Ex. 1) TN
ID-R IM Passive Voice or Predicate Adjective? (Level 5.7, Ex. 2)
ID-R Rewriting Sentences from Passive Voice into Active
and from Active into Passive (Level 5.7, Ex. 3)
ID IM Simple Retained Complements Level 5.7, Ex. 4)
ID Retained Complements - Clauses (Level 5.7, Ex. 5)
ID Retained Complements - Infinitives  (Level 5.7, Ex. 6)
ID Retained Complements - Mixed  (Level 5.7, Ex. 7)
ID A Passage for Analysis (Level 5.7, Ex. 9)
The Logic of Clauses
N The Logic of "And," "Or," and "But" AK ToC
N Mixed Review of Last Year AK ToC

 
N Cause and Effect AK ToC
N Purpose and Result AK ToC
N Another look at "As" and "Than" AK ToC
N Manner and Condition AK ToC
N Concession AK ToC
N A Focus on "Although" and "Lest" AK ToC
N Mixed AK ToC
N Mixed AK ToC
N Sentence-Combining and De-Combining AK ToC
N Sentence-Combining and De-Combining AK ToC
A Focus on Style
S Prozeugma: Ellipsis in S/V/C Patterns (Level 3.2.1, Ex. 1)
S Rewriting Subordinate Clauses as Main
and Main as Subordinate (Level 3.1.2, Mixed, Ex. 2)
25 From the Writing of Sixth Graders AK ToC
S Parallel Subordinate Clauses (Level 3.1.2, Mixed, Ex. 6)
26 From "Endicott and the Red Cross," by Nathaniel Hawthorne AK ToC
S Rewriting Sentences from Passive Voice into Active
and from Active into Passive (Level 5.7, Ex. 3)
27 From The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte AK ToC
S Sentence Combining and Style TN
S Sentence Combining -- Sentences
S Sentence Combining -- Passage
S Sentence De-Combining -- Sentences
S Sentence De-Combining -- Passage
P IM The Punctuation and Logic of Main Clauses
(Level 3.1.1, Ex. 2)		 TN
Statistical Stylistics - Math in English Class (#2)
(Level 6.5)
S Two Sixth Grade Essays about Fires L6.2
from  the Pennsylvania 2000-2001 Writing Assessment Handbook Supplement.
Directions for Statistical  AnalysisKISS Levels 3 +
     This assignment is based on a statistical analysis of sample papers from state standards. It could use more work to fit in here, but for now what is here should enable teachers to adjust the assignments for their own purposes. Click here for more.
70 For practice on editing, edit "Horse Sense." AK ToC
N Read and statistically analyze "The Rescue of Buddy" AK ToC
N Read and statistically analyze "The Fire" AK ToC
N Study the prompt and Scoring Guide for these essays.  Then write an essay in which you yourself evaluate the two essays.
S Analyzing My Own Writing - For KISS Levels 3 +
Write your own response to the prompt and then analyse it statistically.
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