In working on my Grammar Guide, “Clauses”, I learned exactly what clauses were and what makes up a clause.  To be honest I had heard the term Clause before, but did not really have an understanding of it.  I learned about different kinds of clauses such as independent and dependent.  And also I discovered the many types of clauses such as relative, restrictive, and non-restrictive.  This will be extremely helpful to me in the future, being that I am going to be a middle grades language arts teacher.  In doing some educational research for another class, I found that clauses are one of the main concepts set forth for middle school students by the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.  I feel confident about this subject and feel that I could accurately teach this concept to middle school students.  I do wish to add that I also learned a lot about technology and building a web page.
 
 

Completing the editing project part of my portfolio was much more challenging than I expected. I found that trying to concentrate completely on grammar rather than style was very difficult.  I found in my editing project that there were two places where I needed to change subject-verb agreement because the author incorrectly used “was”: where she should have used “were”.  Also there was some inconsistency in titles. For example she used “Glass Menagerie” in one place and “The Glass Menagerie” in another.  Adding to that I found a handful of comma splices throughout the page.  Grammatically, there were not many errors; I found that most of the corrections that I wanted to make were elements of style not grammar.