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This week’s Text is the sixth lesson plan of the Styling Sentences unit. This one deals, as headlined above, with the rhetorical device of the repetition of a key term.

This lesson opens with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on understatement. It’s a half-page worksheet with a reading of one-sentence reading–a longish compound with a colon separating the explanation of understatement with an example of its use. Finally, here is the worksheet with explanatory and mentor texts that stands as the principal work of this lesson. Nota bene, please, that as with most of the documents in this unit, this worksheet contains no sentence stems, cloze exercises, or other supporting apparatus. Students review mentor texts then set out to reproduce their structure by composing several sentences.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

It’s Friday again, and the school year starts soon. Let’s continue with fifth lesson plan in the Styling Sentences unit, this one on dealing with dependent clauses in a pair or a series at the beginning or end of a sentence.

This lesson opens with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the direct object of the verb. You know, that thing that a transitive verb requires to complete its meaning: Omar buys a cup of coffee at the bodega every morning. And here is the worksheet with explanatory and mentor texts to guide students through developing their understanding of this relatively complicated sentence form.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.