Grammar+-+7th+Grade

William Shakespeare

//Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?//  //Thou art more lovely and more temperate://  //Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,//  //And summer's lease hath all too short a date://

//Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,//  //And often is his gold complexion dimmed,//  //And every fair from fair sometime declines,//  //By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed://

//But thy eternal summer shall not fade,//  //Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,//  //Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,//  //When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,//

//So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,//  //So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.//

We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks

We real cool. We Left school. We

Lurk late. We Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We Die soon.

__Investigative Journalism__ Below is a useful website on the Watergate Scandal reporting done by Woodward and Bernstein [] __Sentence Diagramming__ The students have a solid understanding of The Parts of Speech. We are now working on The Parts of the Sentence. This includes: simple and complete subject and predicate, phrases, and clauses. Assessment on this material will be in the form of sentence diagramming and sentence writing. The students will occassionally have homework in this area for practice.