OK, this fifteenth lesson plan is a direct companion to the preceding fourteenth lesson plan from the Introduction to Writing Sentences unit: both of these deal with the tricky business of writing complex sentences. The first of these two (again, the fourteenth) introduces students to the subordinating conjunctions that writers use to form complex sentences. This lesson calls upon students to practice this newly acquired (I hope) understanding of composing complex sentences.
This Cultural Literacy worksheet on the grammatical concept of coordination serves to open this lesson. Finally, here is the scaffolded worksheet to write complex sentences for practice that is the mainstay of this lesson.
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