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“ Brush Strokes ”. by Harry R. Noden. RIGHT NOW. LITERACY CENTERS-WORKSHOP NOTES BLANK SHEET OF PAPER. RIGHT NOW. HOMEWORK. Find and copy a Picture/Image for tomorrow’s writing assignment. Textbooks Grammar Worksheet. AGENDA. Grammar Mini-Lesson: Brushstrokes Practice & Present.
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“Brush Strokes” by Harry R. Noden
RIGHT NOW • LITERACY CENTERS-WORKSHOP NOTES • BLANK SHEET OF PAPER
HOMEWORK Find and copy a Picture/Image for tomorrow’s writing assignment. Textbooks Grammar Worksheet
AGENDA • Grammar • Mini-Lesson: Brushstrokes • Practice & Present
Standards Writing Strategies 1.2 Use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, appropriate modifiers, and the active rather than the passive voice.
Standards Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.1 Identify and correctly use clauses (e.g., main and subordinate), phrases (e.g., gerund, infinitive, and participial), and mechanics of punctuation (e.g., semicolons, colons, ellipses, hyphens).
Standards Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.2 Understand sentence construction (e.g., parallel structure, subordination, proper placement of modifiers) and proper English usage (e.g., consistency of verb tenses).
OBJECTIVE Using Cornell Notes & the Frayer Model for Concept Attainment, students will identify and apply five basic Brushstrokes and practice composing and revising sentences.
Taken from Image Grammar Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing Harry R. Noden
Main Point about Brushstrokes… “The writer is an artist, painting images of life with specific and identifiable brush strokes, images as realistic as Wyeth and as abstract as Picasso. In the act of creation, the writer, like the artist, relies on fundamental elements.” [page 1]
“In the act of creation, the writer, like the artist, relies on fundamental elements.” Noden
The BASIC Parts of Speech • Conjunctions • Prepositions • Interjections • Nouns • Verbs • Pronouns • Adverbs • Adjectives
The Brushstrokes • Participles • Vivid Verbs • Inverted Adjectives • Absolutes • Appositives
The Brushstrokes • Participles • Vivid Verbs • Inverted Adjectives • Absolutes • Appositives
Painting with Participles • Definition: an –ing (or –ed) verb tagged on the beginning or end of a sentence.
Participles painted by Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea: • Shifting the weight of the line to his left shoulder and kneeling carefully, he washed his hand in the ocean and held it there, submerged, for more than a minute, watching the blook trail away and the steady movement of the water against his hand as the boat moved.
Participles painted by Angela • The gorilla stared sadly at the people outside the glass. • Resting his chin on the rubber tire, the gorilla sat, wondering how he came to be trapped in this manmade jungle.
Guided Practice: EXAMPLETry this Brush Stroke with the following…
The Brushstrokes • Participles • Vivid Verbs • Inverted Adjectives • Absolutes • Appositives
Painting with Vivid Verbs • Definition: verbs that show action – not passive voice
Vivid verbs painted by Gary Paulsen in My Life in Dog Years: • The result was spectacular. The voltage hit his wet mouth like a sledge and stiffened him like a poker. He snarled, growling deeper, and tried to hang on, but the jolt was too powerful and slammed him back and down on his rump.
Vivid Verbs Painted by Gloria • The UFO shot across the sky leaving a trail of light. • The UFO hurtled across the sky splitting the sky with a trail of light.
Guided Practice: EXAMPLETry this Brush Stroke with the following…
“Brush Strokes” by Harry R. Noden
RIGHT NOW • LITERACY CENTERS-WORKSHOP NOTES • BLANK SHEET OF PAPER
AGENDA • Grammar • Mini-Lesson: Brushstrokes • Practice & Present
Standards Writing Strategies 1.2 Use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, appropriate modifiers, and the active rather than the passive voice.
Standards Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.1 Identify and correctly use clauses (e.g., main and subordinate), phrases (e.g., gerund, infinitive, and participial), and mechanics of punctuation (e.g., semicolons, colons, ellipses, hyphens).
Standards Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.2 Understand sentence construction (e.g., parallel structure, subordination, proper placement of modifiers) and proper English usage (e.g., consistency of verb tenses).