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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.

As part of a writing assignment, have students work with a partner to edit their writing for correct use of subordinating conjunctions in complex sentences and correct use of correlative conjunctions such as either/or and neither/nor.
 

Further Explanation

Students are expected to use subordinating conjunctions correctly. Ample opportunities should be provided for students review their writing drafts, evaluating subordinating conjunctions and correlative conjunctions and making necessary changes to improve the quality of their writing.

a sentence with an independent clause and at least one dependent clause (e.g., “I cleaned the room when the guests left.”)
Students should be able to use pairs of words known as correlative conjunctions (e.g., both/and, either/or) to connect parts of a sentence that carry equal weight. During the editing process, students should look for instances where correlative conjunctions have been or could be used and ensure that they have maintained proper agreement and parallel structure. For example, in the sentence “I will join either the basketball or the programming team next year,” that there are two options, which are exclusive of each other.
Students are expected to use subordinating conjunctions to indicate the relationship between ideas in a sentence. Subordinating conjunctions can indicate a time, place, or cause-and-effect relationship (e.g., "We looked on top of the refrigerator because that is where LaTonya often hides a bag of chocolate chip cookies").