VERBS9-4-2014  

Grab a red verbs sheet from the front table

Copy Down HW: Finish verb practiceVerb formative tomorrow

Take out last night's homework and keep it at your desk.

Be sure your ISN is numbered through page 5

Please trade homework with someone at your table and take out a colored PEN!

Multiple Choice

b g f e c a d

Copy the learning target onto the TOP of page 3 of your ISN:

I can use verbs to make my writing flow and to create a PICTURE in the reader’s mind.

Copy the following pages into your table of contents.Page 3: Verb NotesPage 4: Verb Practice

Examples of color from famous authors in books we are reading...

Verb Examples:

"Trying hard to bear all this in mind, Harry took a pinch of Floo powder and walked to the edge of the fire." -Harry Potter

"Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways." -Lightning Thief

Pass out Color Sheets: You will be writing using Verbs today!

Notes on Page 3 of your ISN

3 TypesACTIVE - actions

STATE OF BEING/LINKING - is, am, are, was, were, be, been...

HELPING - can, could, shall, should, will, would, have, has, had

Verb - Start It!Hint: Use the back of your verb sheet to collect great verbs!

Also, you may add -ed or -ing to any of those verbs.

Original sentence:The Greeks fought the war.

Revised sentence:Running, the Greeks fought the war.

Running toward their opponents, the Greeks fought the war. (this is a

verb phrase!) Revised sentence: Charging, the Greeks fought the war.

 Charging forward,the Greeks fought the war

Comma!

Comma!

Begin a sentence with a verb.*USE COMMAS AFTER A VERB START IT!

Verb - Improve it!Hint: Use your verb sheet to collect great verbs!

Original sentence:The blender broke into thousands of pieces.

Revised sentence:The blender shattered into thousands of pieces.

Revised sentence: The blender exploded into a thousand pieces.

Improve a weak verb with a strong, action verb.

Tape the half sheet into page 8 of your ISN

Go through and underline verbs, nouns, and adjectives.

Verb - COMMA RULES

1. ) "START ITS" NEED COMMAS. We really call this an introductory phrase or clause.

2.) "REPEAT ITS" NEED COMMAS. We really call this a list or a series.

Directions: Take a blank, small, red sheet and tape it into page 6 of your ISN. Make sure that the red sheet is slightly agove the yellow sheet.

VERBS

Original sentence

Start it:

Improve it:

Repeat it:Write VERBS on the very bottom of the red sheet

 Original: The girl sat on a chair.

Underneath the sentence, write:

Start It:

Improve It:

Repeat It:

Remember to use your ISN and/or red sheet to help you make your revised sentences.

Directions: On the top of your red sheet, write this sentence:

Reflection

On page 5 of your ISN , please reflect on today's lesson by creating a 4 line poem, each line STARTING with a great verb!