Honors Digging Deeper into Nonfiction 1.1.8

Digging Deeper into Nonfiction

​Materials:
-Pen/pencil/highlighter
-Edio

• Explain how key details support the central idea.

• Annotate a nonfiction text

• Use the RACES format to structure a constructed response

Nonfiction & Writing

• Differentiate between simple and compound sentences

• List and use FANBOYS to combine independent clauses

Grammar

Learning Goals:

Differences between Clause & Phrase

Multiple Choice

What is an independent clause?

• a clause that can be a complete sentence on its own

• a clause that could not be a complete sentence on its own.

Multiple Select

What does a clause need to be an independent clause/complete sentence? PICK 3

• subject

• predeicate/verb

• complete thought on its own

• pronoun

Categorize

Options (9)

The dog barked loudly.

She enjoys reading mystery novels.

I walked to the store.

Because the dog barked loudly

Although she enjoys reading mystery novels

When I walked to the store

Barking loudly

Reading mystery novels

To walk to the store

Identify the clauses/phrases:

Independent Clause

Dependent Clause

Prase

When you join two independent clauses with a comma and a FANBOY it becomes a compound sentence.

Compound sentences

Multiple Choice

When I join two independent clauses together it becomes a compound sentence.

In a compound sentence with a comma, I also need a _________________________.

• verb
• FANBOYS conjunction

• noun
• adjective

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence.

I would like to visit Hawaii, ____ I have no money.

• and

• for

• but

• so

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence.

Rose loves reading, ____ her apartment is filled with stacks of novels and manga.

• yet

• for

• but

• and

Multiple Choice

Choose the compound sentence that is written correctly.

• Axel spends all his money on ice cream so he has to get a part-time job.

• Axel spends all his money on ice cream, so he has to get a part-time job.

Multiple Choice

Choose the compound sentence that is written correctly.

• Axel loves ice cream and he eats it at the clock tower.

• Axel loves ice cream, and he eats it at the clock tower.

Multiple Choice

Choose the compound sentence that is written correctly.

• Serena was anxious about going to a new school without her friends, but she knows that she can still see them after school.

• Serena was anxious about going to a new school without her friends but she knows that she can still see them after school.

Open Ended

Write a compound sentence. Make sure it includes 2 independent clauses connected by a comma and a FANBOY.

Go to the article: "For These Native American Artists, the Material is the Message."
Take a moment to skim the text and refamiliarize yourself with the content.

Waterfall Chat

Wait until your teacher says GO!

Take 2 minutes to summarize the article "The Material is the Message."

​Main idea is different than a summary.

The main idea is
the topic + what the author says about the topic

The main idea is explained and strengthened using supporting details.

Draw

Read the sentences. Circle the sentence that could be the main idea (central idea) of the text.

Draw

Draw a line to match the correct explanation to its key (supporting) detail in the text.

Discuss:
Grammar Connection

Reorder

Reorder the following in ascending order to create a paragraph that follows the RACES format.

• The author proves that the materials used for storytelling are just as important as the story itself by showing how Native artists carefully chose what they worked with.

• In the article, the author explains that Plains artists once recorded their experiences on buffalo hides but later adapted to new materials such as muslin, paper, and even ledger books when hides became scarce.

• This shift demonstrates that the meaning of the artwork was tied not only to the images but also to the surfaces and tools that carried cultural significance.

• For example, using ledger books—objects connected to U.S. government control—turned the act of storytelling into both memory-keeping and resistance.

• This evidence proves that the materials were more than a background for the story; they shaped how the stories were told and how they were understood.

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Poll

How was the pacing of today's lesson?

• Way too slow!

• Just right!

• Way too fast!