OK, your Weekly Text for today is the twelfth lesson plan of the Styling Sentences Unit, this one, as the headline reports, on writing a compound sentence separated with semicolon and no conjunction.
This lesson opens with this worksheet on parsing sentences to find prepositions. The principal work of this lesson for students, either independently or–preferably–in groups, is this scaffolded and supported worksheet. Unlike the work for every lesson from this unit posted so far, this worksheet straddles a line between highly supported work, i.e. sentence stems and cloze exercises, and the considerably less supported worksheets in this unit that call upon students to emulate often complicated mentor texts. Finally, here is a learning support on semicolons and their use in compound sentences.
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