Suggested Interactions I have found are helpful to writers in a sentence workshop Questions about Choices Made: Why did you choose [certain word or phrase that interests you]? This word makes me think about… Why this order for your sentence? …
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Lesson: Sentence Competition
Contributed by Natalie Taylor, 2015 Sentence Competition Summary: The class is split into two teams for a semester-long competition to create stronger, more argumentative sentences. Description: Throughout the semester, I collect a number of sentence-level issues that students are having. These issues range from grammatical problems, such as comma splices and subject-verb …
Lesson: Sentence and Context
This activity asks students to look closely at sentences and challenges them to create and change meaning through a variety of techniques. The goal is to get students thinking carefully about how they construct meaning, at a sentence level. It’s also FUN – there’s lots of room here to play around. I’ve never gotten through …
Lesson: Battle of the Sentences
Bringing the Sentence Workshop (Macro in the Micro) To a New Extreme I used this for my unit on Analysis. It took about 15 minutes. This can be done with student produced sentences, or sentences between texts you wish to compare. For my exercise, I chose Deborah Tannen’s “There is No Unmarked Woman” and Lennard …
Handout: MLA Style Paper Format
Kookabura 1 Jerry Kookabura Jody Hassel English III x F03 I February 2013 MLA Style Paper Format At the top right of every page should be your last name and the page number. At the top left of the first page should be your name, followed by my name, followed by …