Warm-up: “To dispel Franz's suspicion, I hand him an assortment of photographs I'd taken on a trip to Alaska the previous summer, during which I'd retraced McCandless's terminal journey on the Stampede Trail.”
Carefully read the above sentence from Into the Wild. Use Chapter One of TASS to help you answer the following questions:
a) Is this sentence a simple, complex, compound, or compound-complex sentence?
b) Copy the subject and verb of the main or independent clause.
c) Copy the dependent or subordinate clause; circle its subject and verb.
d) Is the introductory phrase a prepositional, participial, appositive, gerund, or infinitive phrase? Explain.
Classwork: finish subject analysis chart, complete the part one grammar instructions for the first 2 paragraphs of Alexie's "Superman and Me"
Homework: Finish Part 2 for the second checkpoint. Complete the Alexie Grammar exercise if you didn't finish in class.
1st checkpoint 11/8 2nd checkpoint 11/14 3rd checkpoint 11/17
Into the Wild Chapters 1-8 (pg 85) Chapters 9-13 (pg 132) Chapters 14-Epilogue (pg 203)
Being a Black Man to end of “His Last, Best Cause” (pg 109) To end of “Meaning of Work” (pg 193) From “In or Out…” to end of book (pg 288)
The Other Wes Moore Part 1 – Chap 1-3 (62) Part 2 – Chap 4-6 (122) Part 3 – chap 7- Epilogue (180)
Nickel and Dimed Pg 86 to “The Superwoman mood….” Pg 169 to “On the Day of my Move….” To the end of the afterword
Bird by Bird Introduction – False Starts (84) Plot Treatment – Writing Groups (161) Someone to Read Your Draft – end of book
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