Writer's Choice Grade 7

Unit 14: Clauses and Complex Sentences

Unit Activity Lesson Plans

Introduction
Students have examined different kinds of sentences 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.

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.

1. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.
2. The clause is an adverb clause. It tells when the mother whinnied.
3. It has one subject and one verb and forms a complete thought.
4. The sentence is complex. “There was a plowboy, Dick”—and a subordinating adjective clause—“who sometimes came into our field to pluck blackberries from the hedge.”
5. The clause is an adjective clause. It modifies man.

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