Grammar – One Strategy

Introduction – Four famous grammar problems:

• Subject verb agreement
• Fragment
• Run-on, Comma Splice, Fused Sentence
• Pronoun-antecedent agreement

Step 1

Establish Base Groups of four students.

Each person in the group chooses to become an expert in one of the four grammar problems.

Step 2

The expert groups come together, and review the grammar packet, which is available in the Writing Center -- LC 206.

• Define the problem.
• Complete the exercises in the packet.
• Review the answers.
• Decide on 10 broken sentences that best demonstrate the problem.
• Give me a copy of the 10 sentences.

Step 3

Return to Base Group.  Using the ten sentences as samples, each expert teaches the other students what the problem is and how to correct it.

Step 4

Test – using the very sentences they used to teach one another.

Step 5

Correct the test – in class, each corrects someone else’s test.

Score:

• 50% personal score
• 50% average of base group score, so the grade of each is dependent on the success of the others in the group
• Total is the value of one essay

Update:  7 December 2006