March 24, 2008Self-Starter:
Copy these sentences onto a sheet of lined paper under "word work" :
1. Mrs. Kwan later became the director of the museum.
2. It rained hard during the night.
3. The boy climbed carefully up the tree.
Now,
a. Label any prepositions.
1. Mrs. Kwan later became the director of the museum.
The preposition is "of."
b. Put parentheses around the prepositional phrase, and label any nouns or pronouns and adjectives or articles in the prepositional phase.
1. Mrs. Kwan later became the director (of the museum).
The preposition is "of," the adjective/article is "the," and the noun is "museum."
c. Find and label the verb.
1. Mrs. Kwan later became the director (of the museum).
The verb (predicate) is "became."
d. Find and label the subject (noun or pronoun).
1. Mrs. Kwan later became the director (of the museum).
The subject (proper noun) is "Mrs. Kwan."
e. Label any other "a's, an's, or the's" as articles or adjectives.
f. In sentence #1 you have another noun which is "director." (A director is a person, right? So it is a noun.) It is a predicate noun, linked to the subject by the verb "became."
g. Check any words left over to see if they are adverbs or adjectives. If a word gives more information (describes) a noun, it is an adjective. If it gives more information (describes) a verb, it is an adverb.
After you have marked sentence #1, go ahead and mark the parts of speech for sentences #2 and #3.
Today we also worked on learning how to better write a personal narrative.
If you were absent, use the textbook Write Source 2000, pages 153-157 to fill out the blanks on the handout.
We read two sample stories, one in the Write Source 2000 book on page 154, and the other in our literature textbook on pages 136-137.
What did you learn from Write Source 2000 about writing a personal narrative?
Next time, you will need to write (and basically finish) a personal narrative about a time when you were either
frightened, embarrassed, proud, laughing a lot, sick or hurt, lost or separated from your group, forgetful, ashamed, stressed, or really happy.
Come prepared.
On Friday, you will do a writing test (assigned by the District) on GoMYAccess. It will be on a different topic than the personal narrative you are writing today and Wednesday.
