Lesson Plan Format

NAME: Ashlee Prudhomme

Lesson Topic: Complex/Compound Sentences
Total Time: 45-50 minutes

Grade level: 7th

# Students: 18
Learning Goal:
(Content
Standard/Commo
n Core)

Archdiocese Standard: Identify compound complex sentences

CCS: Literacy L.7.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of
standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking
Literacy L.7.1a- Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general
and their function in specific sentences
Literacy L.7.1.b Choose among simple, compound, complex and
compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among
ideas
The students will be able to identify between complex, compound,
compound complex or simple sentences.
How can we as writers make our writing more interesting?

Target Goal or
Skill:
Essential
Question(s):
Topical
question(s):
Instructional
Objective(s):

What are some types of sentences? What makes them different from one
another? What are the essential parts of these sentences?
Students will be able to:
Identify and create sentences
Identify the characteristics of different sentences
Work collaboratively with a partner to identify sentences
Independently create compound and complex sentences

Assessment
(Criteria / Look
Fors/ Performance
Tasks)
Disabilities/Divers
e Needs
Represented
Student
Accommodations
and/or
Modifications
Instructional
Procedures

Formative Assessment:
Create their own complex or compound sentences
Summative Assessment:

Opener- Picture of plain ice cream cone versus a crazy ice cream cone.

(including specific
times)
Introduction:
(including
motivational hook
where applicable)

What one would you prefer? Poll class (hoping majority will pick hot
fudge sundae)
As writers, do we want to write a plain jane vanilla piece of writing that is
boring to our reader with the same types of sentences over and over or do
we want to have a hot fudge sundae with layers of flavor complex piece of
writing with different types of sentences that is interesting to read for the
writer?

Learning
Activities:

Adding sentence variety to prose can give it life and rhythm. Too many
sentences with the same structure and length can grow monotonous and
stiff for readers. Varying sentence style and structure can also reduce
repetition and add emphasis.
Simple sentences tell you what was done and who did it. But they dont
tell you anything else. If you add information, you get a longer and more
useful sentence.
5-minutes

Closure:

See if students remember clauses and different types of sentences. 5

minutes
Prezi review of Complex v. Compound sentences -10 minutes
Review practice sentences work sheet. Go over the questions.
Work with a partner to label sentences and follow the prompts to identify
the parts of the sentence.
Review answers together as a class. 20 minutes.
So Why is it important for us as writers to know different types of
sentences?
Exit slip- Write a compound and complex sentence. 5 minutes
Motivation: Being creative and engaging writers with complex and
compound sentences.

Academic
Language

Independent clause, dependent clause, compound, complex, compoundcomplex, simple sentences, conjunctions, subordinate conjunctions

Language
Demands (see

Function:
Vocabulary:
Syntax:
Discourse:
What makes an independent clause different from a dependent clause?
How would you use clauses in sentences?
How can you use compound and complex sentences in your writing?
How could you determine what type of sentence those were?

Handout)

5 Questions
(Blooms)

What could you do to make more interesting sentences?

Curriculum (APA)
e.g.
Investigations in
Number, Data,
and Space.
(2012). Pearson.

Materials

Notes

Computer, Internet, Worksheets, Exit slips, pencils/pens, highlighters,

http://prezi.com/cc0imfycezcg/?
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