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Semicolon and Independent/Dependent Clauses using Chapter 1 &2 of Anne of Green Gables
The concept behind this worksheet was to introduce how to use semicolons without going into a lot of detail about any other aspect of grammar concepts, because I find that students forget things quickly, like, if I told a student they could only use a semicolon to combine two independent clauses, they will be confused about what an independent clause is, which is why I also reintroduce dependent and independent clauses, but donīt really make them understand what those are in order to teach them about semicolons. Instead, I highlight the independent and dependent clauses different colors, so they should be able to visualize what the semicolon is doing without fully understanding what the different types of clauses are, but at the same time by giving them clear examples of those clauses, they are learning how to recognize them.
I designed this worksheet to be used with a classroom that is reading Anne of Green Gables, in particular with one of the questions that asks students to read the second chapter of Anne of Green Gables. However, besides that question you can use this worksheet without a copy of Anne of Green Gables in your classroom. The examples are all pulled from Anne of Green Gables but you can easily treat them simply as examples. I included one question, the last question, that is off the topic entirely of semicolons, where it asks the students if they understand what the author is saying; of course you can remove that question if you want.
The first four pages in this worksheet use color, the last four are black and white. If you only want to use the instructional portion of the worksheet and provide your own questions or have students write the questions in their notebooks, just print pages 1 & 2 for color and 5 & 6 for black and white. I did not provide an answer key because it didnīt make sense to do so due to the nature of the worksheet. I did ask that the students circle all the semicolons they see in the worksheet, but I didnīt mean for that to be like a treasure hunt scenario where youīd make the students find all of them, you can do that if you want to, there should be 22 of them, thatīs not including the one in the title. I figured that would be tedious to grade though, and the concept is just to get students to notice them, so for me, I would just count them as doing it right if they circle most of them.
Level:intermediate
Age: +10
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