The Language of Invisible Man

1. Learning Target: I will be able to combine simple sentences to create complex and compound sentences. The Language of Invisible Man

2. Learning Targets andIndependent Reading Wednesday Focus Question: Learning Target: Thursday Focus Question Learning Target Friday Focus Question Learning Target

3. Important Dates • Finish Chapter 7 in Invisible Man for Tuesday • Complete motif for Chapters 6-7 for Tuesday

4. Sentence Combining • The sentences on the handout tell about an event from Chapter 1 – the Battle Royal. • Combine the groups of sentences to create compound and complex sentences. • Remember to punctuate correctly and keep structure parallel.

5. Let’s do one together The Invisible Man is a novel written by Ralph Ellison that records a journey from the south to the north and from innocence to experience.

6. Writing Effective Sentences You can add interest to your writing by varying the way you construct sentences. Variety creates Interest.

7. Combine sentences by adding adjectives, adverbs or prepositional phrases. • The awareness occurs through episodes that are violent confrontations. • I walked from the house, extremely agitated but determined. • Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison.

8. Combine sentences by adding participial phrases. A participle is a form of the verb that can be used as an adjective. • Present participle consists of the plain form of the verb plus –ing. • Past participle consists of the plain form of the verb plus –d or –ed. Others are formed irregularly (throw - thrown).

9. Combine sentences by adding participial phrases. • Goaded by fear, the hero fights other blacks who are his friends and are also blindfolded. • The hero becomes a cornered animal fighting for its life. • Fighting for its life, the hero becomes a cornered animal.

10. Combine sentences by using appositive phrases. Appositive: a noun or pronoun that follows another noun or pronoun that identifies or explains it Invisible Man, a novel by Ralph Ellison, records a journey.

11. Combine sentences by making a compound sentence. A compound sentence is two or more simple sentences (independent clauses) joined together by one of the conjunctions and, but, or, for, nor, so, or yet. • After the match, the hero is given the briefcase as a gift that symbolizes the completion of education, and it symbolizes the commencement of awareness.

12. “Found” poems are composed from words and phrases found in another text but focus on a completely different topic How? Why? Recasting the text we are reading in a different genre helps us become more insightful readers and develop creativity in thinking and writing. It also helps us identify the author's style through word choice and poetic elements. • select a passage and pick out descriptive words, phrases and lines • arrange and format to compose your own poem

13. Directions for “Found” Poem • Use words and phrases from the excerpt. • Add words of your own. • Rearrange words to develop meaning, to make some kind of sense. • Do not feel compelled to rhyme. • Arrange the words as phrases or chunks of meaning not as paragraphs.

14. Example of “Found” Poem Passage From Battle Royal Scene Found Poem With head pulled in against his shoulders, He thought about the days That stretched nervously before him. Days spent groping his way Through a routine they had once shared. And like the knobbed feelers of a hypersensitive snail, H is legs cautiously took the first step And tested their ability to stand alone. Without her. The boys groped about like blind, cautious crabs crouching to protect their mid- sections, their heads pulled in short against their shoulders, their arms stretched nervously before them, with their fists testing the smoke-filled air like the knobbed feelers of hypersensitive snails. • (Ellison )

15. Use this passage or a different one The boys groped about like blind, cautious crabs crouching to protect their mid-sections, their heads pulled in short against their shoulders, their arms stretched nervously before them, with their fists testing the smoke-filled air like the knobbed feelers of hypersensitive snails. • (Ellison )