Another week has passed, so it’s time for this week’s Text, which is the second lesson of the Styling Sentences Unit, this one, as above, on a sentence structure that includes a series with a variation, with an excursus on using the conjunction and.
I begin this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Latinism non sequitur. It means, as the text of the document begins, “A thought that does not logically follow what has just been said.” It’s probably a concept and practice students should know before they set off on writing long, complicated declarative sentences. Finally, here is the worksheet with mentor texts that is the work of this lesson. There are no modified cloze exercises in this document; students work from the mentor texts to produce their own sentences in the form displayed.
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Mark's Text Terminal 