Lesson:
Travel Vocab Test 2 (If you were absent please make up the test on the day you return)
We went over comma rules. HEre are the notes:
Commas after introductory clauses
Clause-- a group of words that’s not quite a sentence, though it often has a subject and a verb
Ex. After the rain started,
Ex. Before I finish dinner,
Ex. When Madonna sings,
When clauses like these introduce a sentence (Hey! That’s why they’re called introductory clauses; it ain’t rocket science), they require commas after them to reflect a pause in the reader’s voice.
Ex. After I finish typing, I’m going to my book club meeting.
Ex. Before I sat down to type this, I went to watch my daughter’s swim lesson.
Ex. Even after all this punctuation practice you do on introductory clauses, you’ll still need to practice some more! That’s the way the brain works!
Commas are used between words, phrases, or clauses in a series.
Example:
My favorite foods are pizza, hamburgers, and French fries. (Three nouns in a series)
I took her for walks, read her stories, and made up games for her to play. (Three verb phrases in a series)
A comma may be used between two independent clauses that are joined by coordinating conjunctions such as these: but, or, nor, for, yet, and, so
Examples:
I would like to speak to him, but I do not know what to say.
Our clothes had become dirty, and we had no other garments to wear.
We then watched a short film on Michael Palin traveling to Japan
I passed out Shinto stories to read and perform
Homework: Read a Shinto story. If you were absent, get a story from a classmate, read it, and fill out storyboard (found on the assignments page)
Projects:
Assignment #6 and #7
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