He said it himself: I just confirmed myself as a total geek. The product of such geekery: the pocket Roger Ebert 100 Best Movies guide. Because you never know when you'll see a great movie that needs to be checked off the list. And then, from his mouth: it's cool that you can make things smaller! (The previous copy took up a full page, whereas the pocket guide is half a page, in smaller writing--so that more than one page fits on a piece of paper.) he he
I think I'll go to bed now. I've been puzzling over how to create a "How to cite your source/practice citing this source" worksheet all evening, and I think my brain will be more awake in the morning.
Does anyone have a good explanation for the difference between a dependent and an independent clause? My grade tens keep stumping me. (Don't ask why we're still having to deal with independent and dependent clauses in grade ten. I don't want to talk about it.)
4 comments:
isn't an independent clause something like a fully-formed sentence? with a subject and verb? whereas a dependent clause would never make it as a sentence alone.
i'm still trying to figure out how to explain independent/dependent clauses too--and this is the college level!
do they get the whole can/can't stand alone idea? if you read a dependent clause out loud, they should be able to recognize that it's not a complete sentence. do they understand coordinating/subordinating conjunctions and how that turns ind. clauses into dep. ones?
for the citing sources stuff, some times I've made handouts and then color-coded each necessary part of the citation. so, red would be the introductory phrase, orange would be the quotation marks, yellow would be the quotation, green would be the parenthese, blue the author's name, purple the page number, etc. then tell them they need to have all the colors represented in each of their quotations.
of course, once a girl turned in a paper and all her quotations were wild colours. she didn't get that once she had it all figured out, she could change it to black....
sigh
ah, Gabe, but a clause has to have a subject and a verb, even if it is dependent.
i say we abolish anything that doesn't make sense about the english language! Sure we'll have to do a lot of rebuilding on the language but we can have it make sense a second time around! Right?
I couldn't even give you a proper def of a clause at this point anyways. Sadly.
Post a Comment