Phrases and Clauses

I will be doing my mini-lesson on phrases and clauses. My lesson is for college age students.

STEP 1: engage and explore: To engage the students, they will be doing a 5 question pretest, in order to get them ready to learn from their mistakes, if they make any!

STEP 2: explain: I will explain the differences between Phrases and Clauses using PowerPoint. In short, I will explain that PHRASES are made up of words, but do not have a subject performing a verb. Because of this, phrases cannot stand alone, and must be part of a bigger sentence.

CLAUSES differ from PHRASES in that they do have a subject performing a verb.
There are two types of Clauses: Dependent, Independent.
DEPENDENT clauses cannot stand alone in a sentence like phrases.
INDEPENDENT clauses CAN stand alone and can make a sentence without the rest of the sentence they are a part of.
I will draw a chart on the board showing the students these characteristics.

STEP 3: extend, evaluate, e-search: Extend: I will ask students if they believe particular sentences are phrases, dependent clauses, or independent clauses.
Evaluate: I will give the students a more extensive online quiz.
E-search: I will help the students with number one, and show them that if they get stumped on a question, they can click a hint box to help them. The quiz will tell them whether they got an answer right or not.
For homework, I would ask them to come up with 5 different phrases, 5 different independent clauses, and 5 different dependent clauses.