15. descriptive writing, comma practice, complex sentence practice

Writing 1Summer 2013

Nikki Mattson

IECP

Would you rather…• Have your mother live with you during the first year of

marriage?

• OR

• Have your mother-in-law come over for dinner 7 days a week for the first two years of marriage?

HW

• Collect process paragraph + Editing Log

• Collect descriptive picture paragraph

Agenda

• Adjective game

• Descriptive writing

• Comma practice

• “so” practice

• “because” practice

Adjective Game Race

Review Descriptive Writing

• Main idea with descriptive word.– Examples: – My roommate’s half of the refrigerator is very neat.– My trip to Quebec was very memorable because the

city seemed very European• Spatial transitions (choose a route)• Specific sense adjectives (look, feel, taste, smell, touch)• Conclusion

Descriptive Writing (pairs or alone)

• Choose a picture

• Brainstorm vocabulary and adjectives (senses chart)

• Choose main idea

• Chose spatial organization

Descriptive Writing (individual)

• Lab

Comma Practice

• Pgs. 89-92

So (Conjunction)

Matching Activity

• Find the other half of your sentence, and write it on the board.

Complex Sentences

• Pgs. 133-136

“Because”

Race

• Example

HW

• Print and post picture description