Separating Subject and Predicate
Bell Ringer: “Who has ever dissected a frog?"
“Who didn’t like getting the 'goo' all over themselves?”
“Well, luckily this type of dissecting isn’t as messy."
Purpose/Objectives:
SWBAT- Define the Subjective and Nominative Part of a Sentence.
Separate a sentence into these two parts.
Input:
First I will start by asking the students what they think a subject is in a non-grammatical sense. I will lead them to examples about the subject of a conversation, a subject in school, a subject in the sense of an experiment. After this I will start to explain what a subject is in the grammatical sense. I will give them a basic definition, the object that does the action explained in the sentence. I will follow this by giving some examples and having the whole class work through them together. At this point we will have already gone over nouns, so this shouldn't be very difficult to them. All they have to grasp at this point is that the subject is an entire phrase at times. The lazy electrician who hates eggs went to the store. I will only use a few examples that involve adverb or adjective phrases since the students will not be at this point yet. If the students can pick out a whole subject then it should be easy for them to pick out the predicate, but I don't want their only concept of a predicate to be, the part that isn't the subject.
Practice:
I will give the students examples on the Board and call on them to pick out the Subject and Predicate of the sentence, telling me where they divide at. Click here for examples. I will put several examples on work sheets and have the students work on them at their desks. Click here for examples. This will be much quicker because students will only have to circle or underline the subject and predicate rather than having to re-write the entire sentence. After I give them a sufficient amount of time to do the sentences, I'll go over them as a group. Then I will have the students to the Online Activity.
Activity:
Closure:
To Close the Class I will have a little game where one student says only a subject and the next says a predicate. Of course I will have to make sure the sentences don't get out of hand. The point of these activities is generally to create humor, so it will be a fun way to practice what I taught in the lesson.