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Let’s Make a Deal! Practical Linguistic Grammar Instruction for the Middle Grades

This workshop focuses on teaching linguistic grammar in a practical and engaging way for students in middle grades. Participants will learn strategies for teaching grammar forms, functions, relationships between words, and natural English language constructions.

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Let’s Make a Deal! Practical Linguistic Grammar Instruction for the Middle Grades

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  1. Let’s Make a Deal! Practical Linguistic Grammar Instruction for the Middle Grades Amy BentonAmity Middle SchoolBethany, CT 03 November 2015

  2. Linguistic Grammar Study focuses on: Form 2

  3. Linguistic Grammar Study focuses on: Function 3

  4. Linguistic Grammar Study focuses on: Relationships between words 4

  5. Linguistic Grammar Study focuses on: Natural English language constructions S = NP + VP Innate grammar knowledge Descriptive or organic workings of language vs. Grammar prescription 5

  6. Just when I was wondering … … how should I begin? Excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death” But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. A strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress nor egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. The abbey was amply provisioned. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within. Without was the "Red Death". It was towards the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion,and while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence. 6

  7. Name: Date: It is my favorite thing. 1. What is the subject of the sentence you just read? 2. Can you substitute in a noun or noun phrase for “It?” What would that be? 3. Is there a correct answer to that second question? 7

  8. Pronoun Antecedent • Definitions: • Pronoun: • Antecedent: To replace nouns and noun phrases in text A noun or noun phrase that is replaced by a pronoun later in the sentence or in the next sentence Requirements for Pronoun Antecedent Agreement I. FORM 1. / A. pronouns (she, her, hers) may only refer to antecedents (Verbina, the women). B. pronouns (he, him, his) may only refer to antecedents (Nounman, the boys). NOTE: Only the pronouns may be (masculine or feminine). C. All other pronouns are considered pronouns (I, me, you, it, we, they, us, their) and are used with antecedents that are not gender-specific (the team, children). Neutrality Gender Feminine Feminine Masculine Masculine Third-person singular gender-specific neutral 8

  9. Requirements for Pronoun Antecedent Agreement II. FUNCTION Pronouns are either: 1. Pronouns = the doer of the action. Ex. She hit a homerun in the final game of the world series. Subject Object 2. Pronouns = the receiver of the action. Ex. The surprised outfielder did not catch it. Possessive 3. Pronouns = show ownership and behave adjectivally. Ex. The victorious team members carried her on their shoulders in celebration. REMEMBER: The pronoun must refer to someone or something that has come before it in the text which is called ANTECEDENT Now it’s time for you to try it! 9

  10. Some practical experience Excerpt from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Oberon: What thou seest when thou dost wake, Do it for thy true love take; Love and languish for his sake. Be it ounce or cat or bear, Pard, or boar with bristled hair In thy eye that shall appear When thou wak’st, it is thy dear. Wake when some vile thing is near! In the seventh line of text, to what is “it” referring? How will you help your students arrive at this conclusion? 10

  11. Helpful Links for Today Linguistic Grammar Intro Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-cPynZR0_k&feature=youtu.be Padlet: http://padlet.com/amy_benton/grammarleague Pronoun/Antecedent Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12G1H_uZHPQ Function Junction Game Show: http://Grammarleague.com/gameshow Twine Game Maker / Storytelling: http://twinery.org Easy to follow Twine Tutorial: http://www.auntiepixelante.com/twine/ 10

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