Writer's Choice Grade 12

Unit 12: Phrases

Unit Activity Lesson Plan

Introduction
In this unit, students have studied prepositional, appositive, and verbal phrases. In this lesson, they will practice using participial phrases to combine sentences.

Lesson Description
Students will use a participial phrase to combine five sentence pairs.

Instructional Objectives

1. Students will be able to correctly use participial phrases.
2. Students will be able to write more clearly and concisely.

Student Web Activity Answers

1. The eight-year-olds danced around their fort made of hard-packed snow.
2. Looking for her sunglasses, Sally reached into her purse.
3. Wandering along the seashore, Natasha found a cowrie shell that had washed up on the sand.
4. Impressed by his son's bravery, the Creek chief declared the boy a warrior.
5. Known as the Corn State, Iowa is one of the leading producers of corn in the United States.

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