Great days of Grammar on Wednesday and Thursday

We worked quite a bit with expanding sentences to make them more interesting, if not greater-- we will continue to focus on how grammar works-- only to discover how we can make it work for us!
Grammar exercises below

10/23/2014 Please Fix This

Write a letter to the principal requesting that one of the rules in the Student Handbook be changed in some way.  Be reasonable and convincing!

Grammar Search: 10/23/2014

Go through the journal writes you have in your folder and “find” a three or four word sentence that you can extract. You may have to take an excerpt from one of your longer, more elegant sentences, and you will, for sure, have to take it out of context.  Please be sure that you have a complete sentence, then copy it onto a half-sheet of paper with your name on it.

Pass your half-sheet around your table. Each person should add 1-3 words and re-write your sentence.  Make sure that you have a complete and correct sentence at the end of EVERY addition. Thanks!

 EXAMPLE:

Take an excerpt.

Take an excerpt from your dreams.

Open up and take an excerpt from your dreams.

Love life again, my friend, open up and take an excerpt from your dreams.

Read Chapter Seven: The Governor’s House