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Get Prepped for Prepositions
Mr. Griot teaches the student to identify prepositions and prepositional phrases and then practices the skill by playing a game.
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Adjectives: Describe and Compare
Mr. Griot reviews adjectives and explains the rules when using comparative adjectives.
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Can You Fix It?
Mr. Griot reviews complete sentences and shows how to identify and correct sentence fragments and run-on sentences. He then uses a game format to practice using these skills.
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Review for You: Sentences
Mr. Griot reviews complete sentences, fragments, and run-on sentences.
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Pronouns Everywhere! I Know Which Kind to Use!
Mr. Griot discusses subject, object, possessive, and relative pronouns. He then demonstrates the function and use of each in sentences.
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What Kind Is It, and How Does It End?
Mr. Griot explains the four types of sentences and their end marks of punctuation. He also points out some ways to identify each in when reading and writing.
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Review for You: Complete Sentences and Fragments
Mr. Griot reviews how to identify sentence fragments as opposed to a complete sentence. He also reviews finding the subject and predicates in a sentence as well as identifying the type of sentence if it is complete.
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One Thought or Two?
Mr. Griot teaches the elements of a simple sentence. He also explains the process of joining simple sentences with a coordinating conjunction to create a compound sentence.
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For the Love of Grammar
Mr. Griot defines and gives examples of nouns, verbs, and articles. He also explains the difference between sentence fragments and complete sentences.
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Review for You: Quotation Marks
Mr. Griot reviews the correct placement of quotation marks when writing direct quotes.
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Review for You: Fragment, Run-on, and Complete Sentences
Mr. Griot reviews the components of a sentence and practices identifying complete sentences, sentence fragments, and run on sentences.
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Conjunctions: Read, Combine, Revise
Mr. Griot describes the function of a coordinating conjunction and demonstrates for the student how to combine and correct sentences using a comma and coordinating conjunction.
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Review for You: Parts of Speech
Mr. Griot conducts a brief review of the parts of speech preposition, interjection, and conjunction by completing activities designed to identify and use them.
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Airplanes and Clouds
Mr. Griot explains prepositions and prepositional phrases and gives hints about how to remember and identify them.
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Who Said What?
Mr. Griot shows how to punctuate a sentence when writing direct quotes.
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Review for You:Prepositions, Interjections, and Conjunctions
Mr. Griot reviews prepositions, interjections, and conjunctions and provides discussion and strategies for the identification and function of each in the sentence.
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Substitute, Please!
Mr. Griot focuses on subject, object, and relative pronouns and demonstrates how these function in a sentence.
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Types of Sentences
Mr. Griot explains the different types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory.
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Past, Present, and Future
Mr. Griot explains past, present, and future tense of verbs.
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Macbeth 1.5 Discussion: Lady Macbeth's Speech
This video examines Lady Macbeth's speech from Shakespeare's "Macbeth," highlighting her insights into Macbeth's ambition and moral hesitations. It explains her critique of Macbeth's desire to achieve greatness honorably and his internal...
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Macbeth 1.5 Discussion: Lady Macbeth's Language
This video delves into the rich use of figurative language in a brief but potent speech by Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's "Macbeth." The discussion highlights how Lady Macbeth manipulates words to foreshadow Duncan's impending doom and...
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Questions and Statements
“Questions and Statements” explains questions and statements, giving several examples of each.
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Nouns and Adjectives
This video entitled "Noun and Adjectives" discusses the relationship between nouns and adjectives and explains how to diagram a simple sentence.
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From Prisoner to President: The Legacy of Nelson Mandela
This video provides a brief overview of Nelson Mandela's life, from his childhood in a rural village to his pivotal role in the fight against apartheid in South Africa. It highlights his journey from being imprisoned for 27 years to...