In-Class+Work+7+MLP

- Generally, it is a strategy for generating effective sentences for communication. It includes editing and revising existing writing. - 4 Different types: Sentence Unscrambling, Sentence Imitating, Sentence Combining, Sentence Expanding (Noden is a good example) - The goal is to expand the student's ability to expand their writing.
 * Review of Sentence Composing**

Directions: Create sentences after the models from literature examples.
 * Language Activity #1**: Writing about a person who is very important to me

and stood still, with the sun at his back, and studied the water again. - Gary Paulson __Hatchet__ || Then she cut, and measured, with the pattern on the mat, and created something new carefully. || pieces of metal, pieces of seat and airplane wing gleamed in the moonlight - Caroline B. Cooney, //Flight #116 is Down// || Buttons of red, threads of gold, fabric of calico and gingham cloth called from the table. || Douglas Spaulding broke a spider web with his face when a single invisible line on the air touched his brow and snapped without a sound - Ray Bradbury, //Dandelion Wine// || Sewing the pieces together my mother created a new dress with patient and nimble fingers on the machine working quickly and moving along the cloth. || Prose from Cartoon Directions: Translate a comic strip into narrative form. This lesson gets at the proper usage of quotation marks in writing.
 * From Literature: || My Sentence: ||
 * Then he turned
 * Pieces of tree,
 * Crossing the lawn that morning,
 * Language Activity #2 - Michelle & Mary Weeks**

The little girl wandered into the living room. She looked up at her dad who was reading the paper studiously.

"Daddy...do we have any cherry bombs I can use?" She asked directly.

"Uh...no, Danae." he replied apathetically.

"How about some M-80s?" Danae asked hopefully.

"Nope." he sighed.

"Bottle rockets?" She inquired.

"No." he answered, still reading the paper.

She scratched her chin, deep in thought, before she finally exploded. "Well, How am I supposed to liberate barbies from oppression without explosives?!"

Her dad, still glued to his paper, replied knowingly, "Just leave your sister's dolls alone."

Painting is equated to writing. Students tend to do more functional writing, like painting a house/car, rather than creative writing, like painting a portrait.
 * Noden's //Brush Strokes//**

Five different brush strokes: (see Red Handout)
 * 1) Painting with participles
 * 2) Painting with absolutes
 * 3) Painting with appositives
 * 4) Painting with adjectives shifted out of order
 * 5) Painting with action verbs