Lesson:
We opened the class period with a five-minute Brainwarmer, since we had not done that in a while.
Then we reviewed the various sentence openers we have learned so far, discussing them with more examples.
After that, we read through student homework, identifying the type of sentence openers the students had used for each sentence.
I was quite pleased with the progress in sentence variety that the class showed.
Assignment:
I offered the students four more basic model paragraphs to rewrite for greater sentence variety; student are to complete at least two of them. Students also have the option of including their brainwarmer as one of their reworked samples.
As before, these can be reworded, rearranged, and restructured, but no major information is to be added or omitted. Students are to use each of the six primary sentence openers at least once (and the seventh, optional opener, if desired) and should not use the same type of opener twice in a row. NOTE: the openers do NOT need to be used in any particular order.
These are due this coming Friday, March 20.
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