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VERBS9-4-2014
Grab a red verbs sheet from the front table
Copy Down HW: Finish verb practiceVerb formative tomorrow
Take out last night's homework and keep it at your desk.
Be sure your ISN is numbered through page 5
Please trade homework with someone at your table and take out a colored PEN!
Multiple Choice
b g f e c a d
Copy the learning target onto the TOP of page 3 of your ISN:
I can use verbs to make my writing flow and to create a PICTURE in the reader’s mind.
Copy the following pages into your table of contents.Page 3: Verb NotesPage 4: Verb Practice
Examples of color from famous authors in books we are reading...
Verb Examples:
"Trying hard to bear all this in mind, Harry took a pinch of Floo powder and walked to the edge of the fire." -Harry Potter
"Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways." -Lightning Thief
Pass out Color Sheets: You will be writing using Verbs today!
Notes on Page 3 of your ISN
3 TypesACTIVE - actions
STATE OF BEING/LINKING - is, am, are, was, were, be, been...
HELPING - can, could, shall, should, will, would, have, has, had
Verb - Start It!Hint: Use the back of your verb sheet to collect great verbs!
Also, you may add -ed or -ing to any of those verbs.
Original sentence:The Greeks fought the war.
Revised sentence:Running, the Greeks fought the war.
Running toward their opponents, the Greeks fought the war. (this is a
verb phrase!) Revised sentence: Charging, the Greeks fought the war.
Charging forward,the Greeks fought the war
Comma!
Comma!
Begin a sentence with a verb.*USE COMMAS AFTER A VERB START IT!
Verb - Improve it!Hint: Use your verb sheet to collect great verbs!
Original sentence:The blender broke into thousands of pieces.
Revised sentence:The blender shattered into thousands of pieces.
Revised sentence: The blender exploded into a thousand pieces.
Improve a weak verb with a strong, action verb.
Verb - COMMA RULES
1. ) "START ITS" NEED COMMAS. We really call this an introductory phrase or clause.
2.) "REPEAT ITS" NEED COMMAS. We really call this a list or a series.
Directions: Take a blank, small, red sheet and tape it into page 6 of your ISN. Make sure that the red sheet is slightly agove the yellow sheet.
VERBS
Original sentence
Start it:
Improve it:
Repeat it:Write VERBS on the very bottom of the red sheet
Original: The girl sat on a chair.
Underneath the sentence, write:
Start It:
Improve It:
Repeat It:
Remember to use your ISN and/or red sheet to help you make your revised sentences.
Directions: On the top of your red sheet, write this sentence:
Reflection
On page 5 of your ISN , please reflect on today's lesson by creating a 4 line poem, each line STARTING with a great verb!