Daily Log

Monday, October 13

The Declaration of Independence and Parallel Construction

We parsed the first two sentences of the immortal document, discovering that though the famous second sentence ("We hold these truths . . ."} is longer than the first it is considerably simpler in structure, consisting of a simple independent clause, followed by a series of (increasingly elaborate) parallel dependent clauses.

We then moved on to the students' homework, the worksheets covering (primarily) problems with parallel construction.