It’s the third week of the semester. Time to catch up on reading and writing.
Hour 1
1 Summary and Review (5)
What did we do last week?
- Writing Skill #3: Sentence Variety. Use 1-2-3-4 rule to create sentences with different lengths.
- Writing Exercise #3: 8 sentence drill (picture prompts)
- Writing Skill #4: First Sentences – start your story an interesting first sentence
- Writing Exercise #4: Movie Review
2 Today’s Plan (40)
Simple.
It’s time to catch up on your writing.
- Writing Exercise #1: A Place – do, see, eat (show me, don’t tell me)
- Writing Exercise #2: The Diner (creative story)
- Writing Exercise #3: 8 sentence drill (optional)
- Writing Exercise #4: Movie Review
Hours 2-3
1 Summary of Writing Skills (1)
- Show me, don’t tell me (more descriptive)
- Sentences with prepositional phrases (lots of information)
- Sentence Variety. Use 1-2-3-4 rule (good style)
- Interesting first sentence.
2 New Writing Skill: Complex Sentences (40)
This is writing assignment #5. It is about complex sentences.
We will spend a few minutes learning this very import sentence. Click here to get the writing activities.
The output of this activity will be 7 complex sentences based on picture prompts.
3 Rewriting (60)
The rest of the class will be used to finish rewriting drafts of the other assignments.