Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Some structure and some style!

Today, we accomplished two big goals: Sentence Structure and Description

Sentence Structure: we built off of subjects and verbs and added the whole concept of "Completion of Thought" by looking at prepositional phrases.

Consider the following sentence:
  • Irma travels to different countries on her vacations from school
Irma is the subject (who or what the sentence is about)
travels is the verb (the action the subject performs)
to different countries, on her vacations, and from school are the prep. phrases.  Notice how they start with a preposition and follow through to the object (thing being pointed to)

Description is our new mode of development that will help tell the narrative we have chosen in a more complete and accurate manner. 

check out the link...notice how description is being blended with the overall narrative?  Cool, huh?

Remember that description uses all 6 senses to help the writer re-create something for the reader to expereince (just like James re-created death for us)!

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