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Compound Sentences

Compound Sentences. FANBOYS. Invitation to Notice. Nick Allen had plenty of ideas, and he knew what to do with them. -- Andrew Clements, Frindle (1998) What do you notice about this sentence?. Sentence Test…. Nick Allen had plenty of ides. Who or what did something?.

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Compound Sentences

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  1. Compound Sentences FANBOYS

  2. Invitation to Notice Nick Allen had plenty of ideas, and he knew what to do with them. -- Andrew Clements, Frindle (1998) • What do you notice about this sentence?

  3. Sentence Test… Nick Allen had plenty of ides. • Who or what did something?

  4. Sentence test continued…. Nick had plenty of ideas. • What did Nick do? • You can do the same test with the other half of the sentence. He knew what to do with them. • Who or what did something? • What did he know?

  5. Compound sentence Nick had plenty of ideas, and he knew what to do with them. • What is holding the two sentences together?

  6. Building the compound sentence pattern Sentence , for and nor but or yet so Sentence . FANBOYS Please cut and paste your compound sentence pattern into your writer’s notebook

  7. Invitation to notice I think about going in my room now, but it smells like the inside of a lunch bag in there. --GenniferCholdenko, Al Capone Does My Shirts (2004) • What do you notice? • What is good about this sentence besides the punctuation and grammar patterns? • What does this pattern (compound sentence) do? • How do writers do it? • Let’s do the sentence test? Who or what did something? What doing?

  8. Mentor sentences • Copy these sentences into your writer’s notebook under your pasted sentence pattern. He tried to stare into her fiery gaze, but he couldn’t stop looking at the purple vein bulging in her forehead. --Brian Meehl, Out of Patience (2006) Rowanne had slipped away from her roly-poly childhood like a sylph from a cocoon, but Hector’s was still wrapped around him in a soft, wooly layer. --Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross (2005) The dark scares us, for we don’t know what is waiting in the dark. --Alvin Schwartz, Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (2001) I could remember every detail of the whole night, but it had the unreal quality of a dream. --S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1997)

  9. Invitation to imitate It’s Friday night, and Mom is yelling at me because I won’t eat the chicken she cooked for dinner. --Sarah Littman, Confessions of a Closet Catholic (2005) I sat near the back with Stephen, and he kept pestering me. Stephen is my best friend, but I’m not sure he’ll admit it. There was only about a block to go before our bus stop, but I couldn’t stand Stephen’s whining another second. --Andrew Clements, The Report Card (2004) • The most-use coordinating conjunctions – and, but, or– make up only one-third of the FANBOYS. You will notice in your readings that you rarely stumble uponforand nor. And yet is also not easily found. • Under your copied mentor sentences in your writer’s notebook, draw a line across the page and I want you to imitate any of the examples above. Don’t make fun of anyone at school, and don’t use other name’s for people saying something that is not complimentary. • Student example: It’s Friday night, and my mom works all night. I stay up and watch scary movies, so I won’t be bored. I think this plan will work, but it never does.

  10. Invitation to write This short story is from a collection of stories called Guys Write for Guys Read,” this story titled, “Let’s Go to Videotape,” is by Dan Gutman who reflects on his continued lack of athletic prowess throughout his lifetime, but he always remembers one moment of athletic perfection – like a videotaped memory that he can play anytime in his mind. Read the short story. • Open up your writer’s notebook and turn to the next clean page in the Writing section. Write today’s date. • You are going to freewrite about a time you did something impressive or about experiences in gym in general, past or present. • Don’t forget to pay attention to incorporating IMAGERY, DIALOGUE, GREAT DICTION, and SYNTAX!!!! • SHOW ME DON’T TELL ME!!!!!

  11. But usually, the game we played in gym was kickball. I like kickball, mostly because nobody had to take off his shirt to play it. There were about a dozen boys on each team, and the fielders would scatter across the big gym. Little guys like me would try to hit dribblers past the infield and scoot to first base before the ball got there. Big guys could bang the ball as far as they could and bounce it off the far wall. --Dan Gutman, “Let’s Go to Videotape,” found in Guys Write for Guys Read (2005)

  12. Invitation to collect • Pass out copies of “Let’s Go to Videotape” to teams. • Review the Compound Sentence pattern and our examples. • Remember! Every sentence with an “and” isn’t necessarily a compound sentence. For example: I love to eat cheese, and fish. • Is this correct? • Have one team member take out a sheet of paper and as a team read through the story and write down all the sentences that are compound sentences. (I know you may think this is childish and you know it, but consider it a review! I can guarantee I will come across you incorrectly writing compound sentences in your writing, so let’s be proactive.) • Teams share out. • As a team reads out a sentence your team wrote down, check them off.

  13. Invitation to combine • Another way to help you become familiar and master the compound sentence is to combine and uncombine sentences. A nervous chuckle rose up in me. I refused to let it out. I tried calling her as soon as I got home from school. Her line was busy. --Nancy Osa, Cuba 15 (2003) In your writer’s notebook on the same page you were working on your compound sentences, I want you to combine these two sets of sentences. Don’t forget the comma and FANBOYS! Share out.

  14. Invitation to edit The Invention of Hugo Cabret --Brian Selznick, (2007) Show cover and pages of the book under doc cam. Hugo has this secret that he is trying to keep, and this girl he knows a little followed him and is about to discover his secret. Hugo fights to keep his secret undiscovered, but Isabelle starts to fight back…

  15. Invitation to edit Uncovering How Writers Communicate with Readers How’d They Do It? He yelped in pain, and she grabbed his wrists and pinned his arms to the floor. --Brain Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) He yelped in pain, and she grabbed his wrists and pins his arms to the floor. He yelps in pain, and she grabs his wrists and pins his arms to the floor. He yelped in pain and she grabbed his wrists, and pinned his arms to the floor. He yelped in pain and she grabbed his wrists and pinned his arms to the floor. He yelped in pain, and she grabbed his wrists, and pinned his arms to the floor. • Identify changes in each sentence. (commas, conjunctions, powerful verbs.

  16. Invitation to collect • For homework: Read – or shop – the world, looking for compound sentences in • Your science or social studies book; • Advertisements; • Other people’s speech. • Use the index cards to record the sentences you find. Write one sentence per card. • Tomorrow we will share and post them in the room. We will also revisit an old piece of writing and rework it adding compound sentences.

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