01.13 - Formal Diction & Compound-Complex Sentences

At the beginning of class today, I presented everyone with two more roots from this week's set of roots and prefixes. In their writer's journals, everyone then responded to the following prompt:

spir - breath

crea - create

Brainstorm words that use these roots and explain how the root meaning may relate to the word meaning.

Write two sentences (per root) using some of the brainstormed words.

Next, we finished reviewing the formal diction packet by looking at cliches, stage directions, and specific language. People turned in these packets for a repeated practice grade.

We then returned to our work with sentence structure looking at compound-complex sentences (see below). We reviewed the sentence structures we have worked with so far and then looked at the compound-complex sentence structures.

Handouts:

Sentence Types 

      (see pages 8-9 for compound-complex sentences)

Formal Diction Packet

Work Submitted Today:

Formal Diction Packet

Homework:

Come up with two compound-complex sentences (see page 8 of the sentence type sheet).

Complete or revise your second motif paragraph as necessary (due Friday, Jan 16)