I use DGP to teach students the rules of grammar. The key to the program is it is a daily program. Students work on one sentence all week. For each day of the week, students have a different task to accomplish with the week's sentence. When students arrive for my class they immediately do the day's assignment. A student puts the work on the board, we discuss the answers, and the students make any necessary corrections on their sentence. It is an easy 100! All they have to do is attempt the task and make necessary corrections after we discuss the answers.

Unfortunately, many of the students are not using their time wisely and are not completing or correcting their work! Please discuss the DGP grades with your student.

Monday: Identify each word as noun (common, proper, possessive), pronoun (relative, interrogative, possessive, nominative, objective, demonstrative, indefinite, reflexive), verb (helping, linking, action, tense), adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction (coordinating, subordinating, correlative), interjection, gerund, participle, or infinitive.

Tuesday: Identify sentence parts including subject (complete and simple), verb (complete and simple, transitive or intransitive), direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, appositive or appositive phrase, and prepositional phrase (adjective or adverb).

Wednesday: Identify each clause as independent, adjective dependent, or adverb dependent; identify the sentence type as simple, compound, or complex; and identify the sentence purpose as declarative, imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory. 

Thursday: Add all capitalization and punctuation.

Friday: Diagram the week's sentence.