Jadyn and I briefly reviewed her goals and my expectations for English III. We are going to start at the top with Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 for literature, arguably one of the best known of the 154 sonnets written by the English poet William Shakespeare, as Jaydn requested reading with a "light" theme. Once that was decided, we reviewed grammar. Jaydn is not familiar with the school's IXL platform. We reviewed declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences and Jaydn learned to identify subjects and verbs and that a sentence is a complete thought with both. We discussed sentence variety and Jaydn agreed and stated that a string of declarative sentences "doesn't catch the reader's attention." Jaydn is concerned about the run-on sentence, so I taught her about the comma splice to be continued tomorrow with other methods of correctly connecting sentences.