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