COMPLEX SENTENCES WOOP

This week our patterns were more focused on the structure of sentences. Mainly focusing on complex sentences. This week I learned many things that I didn’t know about sentences. I never knew what a subordinating conjunction as, until this week (I obviously knew what they were but I didn’t know that’s what they were called). Here are examples of my complex sentences:

Even in the small town of Wenatchee, Washington there are problems with gender roles in classrooms. I had the chance to talk to a teacher who taught at a school district in Wenatchee. This teachers name was Kelsey and even though she has only been teaching for two years she is well versed on the day-to-day happenings in the classroom, she also happens to be my cousin. After bringing up the subject of my paper, she told me a story of when she was teaching kindergarten [Independent clause, dependent clause, coordinating conjunction];

Or this sentence could look like this:

I brought up the subject of my paper after she told me a story of when she was teaching kindergarten [Independent clause, dependent clause, coordinating conjunction]; the principal took one of the White student’s out of her class and placed the girl in another class. They did this because the other class had too many Hispanic students in one class; the school needed a White student to make the class more equal in race. This story is specific to the topic of racism and gender roles. The issues of race and gender differences in classrooms are obvious, but are the correct things being done to fix the problem? Teachers should be focused on students having a fair chance at succeeding in school as every other student. Sharon Chubbuck author of the article titled, Individual and Structural Orientations in Socially Just Teaching: Conceptualization, Implementation, and Collaborative Effort asks the questions, if students will access more knowledge if they look at students needs individually or the needs of the whole classroom?

As you can see it changes the context of the paper. While the first one is of her telling me her story after I told her about the subject. The second is me bringing up the topic of my subject after she told me about this story.