1. Tuesday July 12, 2011
Hubbs Center - ELL 7
Agenda and Objectives

2. Our objectives for today...
• Quick write: We will compare a theme from
Romeo and Juliet with our own lives.
• We will review and practice simple and
compound sentences.
 Sample sentences
 Our sentences
 Act 2, Scene 2
• We will discuss, practice and use the
cognitive reading strategy: making
connections.
• We will read Act 2, Scene 2.
 Reading Response Log

3. Quick write!
• Choose a theme we have discussed from
Romeo and Juliet so far.
• Write a paragraph to connect the theme you
choose from Romeo and Juliet with your life.
Love and marriage Coincidence and Timing:
“The right place at the right time.”
Nervous and excited feelings
Bad luck, foreshadowing
Celebration – party Conflict, Enemies:
“if you are a
Montigue, you can’t
Thinking about past, present and future: come!”
Paris, Lady Capulet, Juliet, Romeo Family
Happiness – people together at the party Respect

4. What is a simple sentence?
• A simple sentence has the most basic
elements that make it a sentence: a subject,
a verb, and a completed thought.
• Examples of simple sentences:
 Joe waited for the train.
 The train was late.
 Mary and Samantha took the bus.
 I looked for Mary and Samantha at the bus
station.
 Mary and Samantha arrived at the bus station
before noon and left on the bus before I arrived.

5. Simple Sentences
 Joe waited for the train.
 "Joe" = subject, "waited" = verb
 The train was late.
 "The train" = subject, "was" = verb
 Mary and Samantha took the bus.
 "Mary and Samantha" = compound subject, "took" =
verb
 I looked for Mary and Samantha at the bus
station.
 "I" = subject, "looked" = verb
 Mary and Samantha arrived at the bus station
before noon and left on the bus before I arrived.
 "Mary and Samantha" = compound subject, "arrived"
and "left" = compound verb

6. Our own simple sentences
•

7. Compound Sentences
• A compound sentence is a sentence made up
of two independent clauses (or simple
sentences) connected to one another with a •Coordinating
coordinating conjunction. conjunctions
-"FAN BOYS":
• Examples of compound sentences: • * For
 Joe waited for the train, but the train was late. • * And
 I looked for Mary and Samantha at the bus • * Nor
station, but they arrived at the station before • * But
noon and left on the bus before I arrived. • * Or
 Mary and Samantha arrived at the bus station • * Yet
before noon, and they left on the bus before I • * So
arrived.
 Mary and Samantha left on the bus before I
arrived, so I did not see them at the bus station.
http://transcoder.usablenet.com/tt/www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/sentences.htm?un_jtt_redirect

8. Our own compound
sentences
•

9. Sentence Hunt!
• We are now going to “hunt”, or look
for, examples of simple and
compound sentences...
 in our writing (Quick Write from today)
 in Act 2, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet.
• Circle simple sentences
• Underline compound sentences

10. What do successful readers do?
• Cognitive
Reading
Strategies

11. Reader Response Journal
Page What is it Connection Question
number about?

12. Act 2, Scene 2
• Capulets • Montagues • Neither
 Sampson
 Gregory  Abraham  Prince
 Tybalt  Balthasar
 Lord and Lady
Capulet  Benvolio
 Juliet  Lord and Lady
 Nurse Montague
 Servant
 Romeo
 Paris
 Rosaline  Mercutio
 Cousin Capulet