Learning objective: to create powerful sentences.
Success criteria:
1. I can describe the benefits of varied sentence types (short, long, subordinate clauses, lists within sentences).
2. I can identify the effects of different vocabulary choices.
3. I can apply my new knowledge to making my own formal writing more powerful.
Short sentences are most useful for making impact. e.g. He died. e.g. Then I dropped the whole thing.
Using subordinate clauses within a sentence allows us to create a more complex idea. e.g. Before I could even get in the door, the screams from the other side led me to be very nervous indeed.
Using lists within a sentence can increase the impact of the idea you are developing. e.g. As I made my way up the path to the front door, I saw Aunty Mary, Uncle John, six snotty-nosed cousins from Hokitika, my older brother's very pregnant girlfriend, my older brother, Grandma and Dad all staring at the present that I was trying to hold still in my arms, without much success.
Vocabulary
Can you use different words to increase the power of the idea you are developing?
Can you use a rhetorical question, or a simile?
How will you link information through alliteration to focus the reader on a particular detail?
Next activity is via Socrative. Log in as a student here. Room name = MSQUICK
You will each be given a party scenario. You are going to describe the party using:
- at least five sentences
- a short sentence
- a sentence with listing within it
- a sentence with one or more subordinate clause
- alliteration
- detail about a person or place that helps us imagine a lot more about the person/place.
- adventurous vocabulary
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