Lesson 14

Notes

1. Grammar: I do basic teaching techniques here: Explaining and showing the fundamental difference between phrases and clauses and writing different simple sentences on the board and then adding different types of phrases, using a tutorial (questioning back and forth, sometimes using a beach ball to throw at students for random participation) to help them gain understanding. Then, I’ll have them write different phrases onto a base clause. 

If they are still engaged, I might then ramp it up and workshop compound and complex sentences which also include phrases. 

2. Good and Evil definition paragraph: This is the assignment I posted for my students: 

In one unified and coherent paragraph (6-10 sentences), please define "evil." Of course, you may conclude that, in order to define "evil," you need to define good as well. Please use terminology from our class, including "subjective" and "objective" (how we know); "substantial form"; "accident." 

Please support your argument with precise terms (like the ones above) and a couple strong examples from either Left to Tell or Unbroken.

We will spend a little time sharing and workshopping these in class.

You may type this; you do not yet have to bring in a printed copy, because we will workshop it.