Friday, June 27, 2008
Grammar Absolutes
I think it was Joe, yesterday during my Image Grammar demo, who asked an excellent question about the term absolute in grammar.
The Oxford on-line dictionary says this:
9. Standing out of (the usual) grammatical relation or syntactic construction with other words, as in the ablative absolute. The absolute form of a word: that in which it is not inflected to indicate relation to other words in a sentence. Also absolute clause, comparative, construction, superlative. ¶The absolute case in English was formerly the Dative or Instrumental: it is now the Nominative.
I am sure this makes sense to all of you and this clears up Joe's question completely. :) Ha.
To me it is the "not inflected to indicate relation to other words in the sentence" that makes the most sense. I just can't articulate it. Any comments? Maybe you could explain it to me????
Kathy
The Oxford on-line dictionary says this:
9. Standing out of (the usual) grammatical relation or syntactic construction with other words, as in the ablative absolute. The absolute form of a word: that in which it is not inflected to indicate relation to other words in a sentence. Also absolute clause, comparative, construction, superlative. ¶The absolute case in English was formerly the Dative or Instrumental: it is now the Nominative.
I am sure this makes sense to all of you and this clears up Joe's question completely. :) Ha.
To me it is the "not inflected to indicate relation to other words in the sentence" that makes the most sense. I just can't articulate it. Any comments? Maybe you could explain it to me????
Kathy
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Jason's Argonauts
I want to call attention to what I think is some truly amazing work being done by a fellow teacher. Jason Tutterrow is also a teacher consultant having attending the last two summer institutes. Jason and his band of eight rabble rousers have been involved in a six week elective course as part of the Miller High School summer school program.
Jason has taken his kids on a journey into the digital world through interactive blogging. If you want to know what's on these students' minds, take a hard look at their work.
The AMAZING thing is the proficiency and prolific nature of the posts. There are 372 posts divided among 9 participants. That is an amazing average of over 12 posts per day. But, even more amazing is how each student comments to almost all of each others posts. I have read a few of the posts/comments and they are definitely reading and viewing the contents of all of the posts.
Like I said, if you want to know what's on these kids' minds, it's all there in black, white, and living color. Take a look.
The Voices of an Ever Changing World
Jason has taken his kids on a journey into the digital world through interactive blogging. If you want to know what's on these students' minds, take a hard look at their work.
The AMAZING thing is the proficiency and prolific nature of the posts. There are 372 posts divided among 9 participants. That is an amazing average of over 12 posts per day. But, even more amazing is how each student comments to almost all of each others posts. I have read a few of the posts/comments and they are definitely reading and viewing the contents of all of the posts.
Like I said, if you want to know what's on these kids' minds, it's all there in black, white, and living color. Take a look.
The Voices of an Ever Changing World
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