Today Hudson completed 8th grade Prentice Hall textbook grammar section 21.4 Avoiding Phrase Fragments. We discussed that a phrase by itself is a fragment and cannot stand alone because it does not have a subject and a verb. We reviewed what subjects and verbs are. We read and discussed exercises where we were given a phrase fragment, then shown how it was added to a nearby sentence to create a complete sentence. Hudson read phrase fragments and created complete sentences with them by adding the fragment to either the beginning or end of a sentence that he created.

We also continued working on our how-to essay. We opened a Word document and I showed Hudson how to properly format an MLA style essay using the tools on Microsoft Word. Hudson took the outline he wrote last class on how to fish and began typing his essay. We will finish typing, adding detail sentences, and proofreading next class.