A teacher in my department came to me this morning for help diagramming this clause from a Fitzgerald sentence: when we were still some distance away. What should she do with distance? Dawn Fay Sweney wrote: > Whoops! Looks like a draft email was accidentally sent. English > teachers in my school district are currently evaluating curriculum. > One step is to identify the complexity of what we expect kids to > learn. We are in disagreement about this. Using Bloom's taxonomy, > how would you classify the complexity of questions like those below-- > Comprehension? Application? Analysis? And why? 1. Is the underlined > word in the following sentence a preposition? The dog ran across > the street. 2. Which of the following sentences contains a > prepositional phrase? a. The cowboys rode their horses. b. > The cowboys gave the horses a drink. c. The cowboys rode their > horses into the sunset. My book was found under a fluffy pillow.3. The > word pillow functions as a. an adjective b. a noun c. a > preposition d. a pronoun 4. What is the structure of this > sentence? a. simple b. compound c. complex Fay Sweney > > Lake City High School > 6101 N. Ramsey Rd. > Coeur d'Alene, ID 83815 > [log in to unmask] To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please > visit the list's web interface at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or > leave the list" > > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/