Unit Activity Lesson Plans

Introduction
Students have studied different sentence structures and clauses. In this lesson, they will read a short passage from a classic novel and identify specific sentence structures and clauses.

Lesson Description
Students will use information from the unit to identify types of sentences and clauses.
Specifically, students will go online to read Part 1: "The Wild Land" from Willa Cather's O!Pioneers.

Instructional Objectives

1. Students will be able to read and analyze a short, fictional passage.
2. Students will be able to transfer information and ideas from the unit reading.
3. Students will be able to identify types of sentences and clauses, including their specific components and functions.

Student Web Activity Answers

1. "The main street was a deeply rutted road, now frozen hard."
2. "…which ran from the squat red railway station and the grain 'elevator' at the north end of the town to the lumber yard and the horse pond at the south end;" Which is the relative pronoun that introduces this adjective clause.
3. This is an adverb clause. It tells when Alexandra hurried to the drug store.
4. There is only one subject and one verb.
5. It contains two independent, or main, clauses separated by a semicolon.

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