Thurs. 2/25/15

Learning Target:

• Add a participial phrase to your memoir for more sentence fluency and descriptive writing
• Substitute weaker verbs with stronger ones

Work Collected:

• Formative assessment: participial phrase

Work Assigned/Handed Out:

• Read for at least 30 mins.
• Lit. circle discussion #3 tomorrow (reading + row 3 of worksheet)
• Reminder: 4-year plan for HS classes due tomorrow
• Handouts: 2 "Said Is Dead"sheets

Summary of Class:

• Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
  
• Participle review
• Formative assessment: on a notecard, write a sentence from your memoir that you could add a participial phrase to
• Memoirs: Thesaurus work
• Identify weak verbs in your memoir (come, do , get, give, go have, like make, take, be...is, are, was, were, etc.)
• Replace these with stronger verbs
• I had the snake in my hands. --> I clutched the snake in my tiny fists.
• See help with using a thesaurus here
• "Said" synonyms (in case you keep repeating "said" in your memoir)
• See handouts on LA website > Units/Materials > Memoir > Revising Your Memoir
• "Said Is Dead" and "Said Is Dead 2": Save these handouts to your LA folder