EF34 11:00 March5

 

Good morning, everybody.

We will get started at 11:00.

Today is Friday, the happiest day!

This is the end of our fourth week.

Today’s agenda:

1. Continue with narrative writing

2. Quiz#4 noun clauses

Monday  - begin adjective clauses

Paragraph writing

Types of paragraphs:

*narrative writing – telling a story

*descriptive writing – describe what something looks like, sounds like, tastes like – next week

*process writing – teaches or explains – two weeks

*persuasive writing – convince, give an opinion – two weeks

narrative paragraph – tells a short story (100-150 w)

narrate (v) tell a story

narrator (n) person who tells a story

narrative writing- often first-person narration “I”

 

Topic Sentence

The time I got lost when I was a kid was very scary.

Supporting sentences- tell the story in 5-7 sentences

I remember that I was out shopping with my mother. She was looking at clothes, and I wandered away. I saw her across the store and walked over to her. When I got next to her, I realized that this person was not my mother. It was a stranger.  KEEP TELLING THE STORY TO THE END

Concluding sentence

When my mother finally found me, she looked very relieved. My fear left me as she took my hand and we left the store together.

 ROUGH COPY

The time I got lost when I was a kid was very scary. I remember that I was out shopping with my mother. She was looking at clothes, and I wandered away. I saw her across the store and walked over to her. When I got next to her, I realized that this person was not my mother. It was a stranger. I ran around the store yelling for her. She heard me and came right over. She had been looking for me, too. When my mother finally found me, she looked very relieved. My fear left me as she took my hand and we left the store together. That was a scary moment for me.

Homework:

Think about a scary event that happened to you when you were a kid.

Did you think of a scary thing that happened to you?

scared poeple would come from inside the TV

Topic sentence

When I was a child, I was afraid that the people that I saw on the TV screen would come out of the TV at night when I was asleep. I would lie in bed feeling afraid. I would shiver with fear when I thought about it. I would hide under the blankets. I would not even get up to go to bathroom. CONTINUE THE STORY IN SEVERAL MORE SENTENCES When I think back, although it was very scary at the time, now I think it is hilarious.

(100-150 words)

scared of big dogs

IDEAS FOR YOUR PARAGRAPH

-child

-ran, dog chasing

-chased for 15 minutes

-brown dog, big dog, looked scary

-I was afraid and ran home quickly 

- still afraid of dogs

WRITE THE IDEAS INTO SENTENCES (simple, compound, complex)

Monday- narrative paragraph on a personal topic