WEST RIDGE MIDDLE

Week

Skill

Activities

Step 1- Prepositional Phrases (P+OP)

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Prepositional Phrases

• Prep phrases p. 141-144

• Test

                              Step 2-Verbs (AV/LV) /

                               Step 3 Subjects

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Subject/Verb

• Action Verb p. 73-74

• Linking Verbs p. 79-80

• Test 

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simple/compound Subject/verb 

• Simple subject/verbs p. 51-52

• Compound Subjects and verbs p. 53-54

• Test Skills 1-3

                                Step 4-Complements                                                                                

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Direct Object

• DO- p. 75-76

• Test Skills 1-3 + DO

5

Indirect Object

• IO p. 77-78

• Test Skills 1-3 + DO/IO

6

Predicate Noun/Predicate Adjective

• PN/PA P. 81-82 

• Test Skills 1-3 + PN/PA

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REVIEW DO/IO/PN/PA

• ** Will need to pull online practice for review of these.  Students will identify everything in steps 1-4

• TEST STEPS 1-4

                            Step 5-Modifiers

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Adjectives

• Adjectives p. 117-118

  • Identify articles a, an, the

• comparative/superlative adj. P. 121

• Demonstrative adj. P. 126

• Test Steps 1-4 + Adj

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adverbs

• Adverbs p. 127-128

• Intensifiers p. 129

• comparative/superlative- p. 131-132

• Test Steps 1-5

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REVIEW

• P. 159-160 (Review Steps 1-5)

Step 6-Phrases- can touch on this as needed, but won’t be addressed as a skill until 8th grade- If time allows at the end of the year these can be addressed then. 

• Participles

• Gerunds

• Infinitives

• appositives

                                           Step 7- Clauses

**With clauses I utilize highlighters.  I make them make a key if everyone doesn’t have the same colors.  They have to highlight the clauses. This makes it easier to determine sentence types and to grade.  You may choose to highlight all dependent clauses the same color use a new color for each type like below. 

Ex.  IC  Adv. Cl (DC)  Adj Cl   Noun Cl

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Independent/

Dependent Clauses

• Discuss Subordinating Conj. 

• IC/DC (adverb clause) p. 159-160

• Test Steps 1-5 + Adv. Clauses

  • Quiz listing Sub. conjunctions 

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Adjective Clause

• Introduce Relative Pronouns

• Adj. Clause p. 157-158

• Test Steps 1-5 + adj Clauses

  • Must identify the noun/pronoun that the adjective clause is describing 

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Noun Clauses 

• NC used as S, OP p. 161-162

  • Pull extra materials offline 

• Quiz NC used as S, OP Relative Pronouns

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Noun Clauses

• Review NC used as S, OP

• NC used as DO, IO, PN  p. 161-162 

• Test Steps 1-5 + Noun Clauses 

  • Must identify the use of the noun clause 

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REVIEW

• Review all of step 7- p. 163 

                                      Step 8- Sentence Types

Simple- IC

Compound- IC + IC 

Complex- IC + 1 or more DC (Adv. Cl/Noun Cl/Adj Cl)

Compound Complex- 2 or more IC + 1 or more DC

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Simple/Compound

• S/CP p. 153-154

• Test Steps 1-7 + identify S or CP

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Compound or Complex

• P. 155-156

• Test Steps 1-7 + identify CP ror CX

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REVIEW ALL STEPS

• Review all steps -8 and identify all elements of the sentence. 

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