Minilessons

One of our goals in English 11 is to help prepare students to be successful on the ACT test. In order to strengthen skills in language, weekly (Wednesday) minilessons will review grammar, usage, mechanics, sentence faults, etc

Mini-Lesson Schedule:

1. Assignment format (using Falcon Skills and Style Handbook)
2. Peer review
3. Proofreading & editing
4. Paragraph strategies (organization)
5. Sentence fragments (FR #1)
6. Run ons (comma splices)
7. Sentence variety
8. Sentence beginnings and strategies
9. Sentence combining
10. Parallel construction
11. Passive voice
12. Shifts in p.o.v.
13. Shifts in tense
14. Commas
15. Hyphens and dashes
16. Apostrophes
17. Semi colons and colons
18. Exclamation points
19. Quotation marks
20. Pronoun/antecedent agreement
21. Pronoun references
22. Subject/verb agreement
23. Dangling participles
24. Misplaced modifiers
25. Mixed pairs
26. Wordiness
27. Sexist language
28. Colloquialisms
29. Clichés
30. Spelling
31. Write numbers out

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