Thursday, March 6, 2014

Lesson Objectives:

I can…

• review the purpose of "adjectives out of order"
• generate and share brushstrokes
• use your own writing for a revision

Homework: Complete the Article of the Week assignment (paired with a poem) and the sentence strip.

Opening:

1. Copy down and edit for a quick review:

• "Hows the cats paw?" I tenderly ask my two daughters friends. 

2. Find one of the sentences in your essay that has an apostrophe error and make the correction on the page.

• Show me!

3. Journal Entry: Let's discuss yesterday's sentence with the passive voice error.  How did you make the sentence active?

• Staring at the door, fingers crossing, phone resting in my lap, I am waiting for my mother, a late shift waitress, to be arriving home.

Work Period:

4. "Adjectives Out-of-Order" Work:

What is an "Adjectives Out-of-Order" brush stroke?

5. Share your completed descriptions of the dog and the cat on page 23.

6. Go through the same process for Description #2 on page 24

7. Find an object, place, article, or some other interesting image in your narrative essay:

• Create an "Adjectives Out-of-Order" brushstroke.

Closing:

8. Share your "Adjective Out-of-Order" sentences with a partner.

9.  Take home a sentence strip, and copy down your best Brush Stroke from today or yesterday.

Homework: Complete the Article of the Week assignment (paired with a poem) and the sentence strip.