Sept 9/2013 -from Mrs. J
Tomorrow morning! And
Wednesday morning!
I get to visit with my
writing students. I am excited!
We will begin our discussions
called “Words inside of Me”!
We will think about and talk
about our experiences and our feelings and our thoughts and the words that
‘bubble up” from all this thinking.
We will talk about the power
words have to help other people know what is important inside of us. Our own
experiences and feelings and thoughts and the words they generate make up our
personal ‘content’, what we have to say about ourselves.
Your words, spoken and
written, are very special. Our language uses certain FORMS that help us arrange
our words into sentences which let other people know what we want to say.
FORMS ‘give our words the
power to relate to each other…… to carry meaning.’ –Virginia Tufte
My
goal-as writing teacher- is to help us all gain skill in recognizing the basic
noun-verb-object FORM and how writers build on it, by studying the sentences of
many authors from numerous books; imitating their example in writing practice
FROM OUR OWN EXPERIENCE, deepening our own understanding of relationships among
OUR OWN WORDS AND USING THEM WITH COURAGE AN POWER.
Older
students, please, read and ponder quotes #1 and #6, for tomorrow, and share
some thoughts-words …
All
students are invited to think about-choose your favorite summer memory and
begin listing all the nouns that ‘bubble up’ from that memory. Remember nouns
are words that name *people, * places, *things, and *qualities (Ie. softness),
and *ideas (Ie. dignity).
Yours in
learning,
Mrs. J
As Linda asked us to make sentences using the being verbs I thought about and taught my boys the importance of knowing these verbs when applied to learning a foreign language like French or German. For example, once you learn how to say "I am, you are, he is, she is and they are" in the foreign language you can apply this to other new verbs you learn. The second one would be how to say, "I have."
ReplyDeleteAnyway, we worked on sentences and this is what we came up with:
I am playing with Lego.
You are talking.
He is writing.
She is making salsa.
They are happy.
by Caleb
I am writing a sentence.
You are a woman.
She is also a woman.
He is a man.
They are my friends.
by Sean
Here is what I wrote:
I am going to tell you about our dog.
You are probably wondering why.
She is going to have puppies. Let me tell you who the dad is.
He is Farmer Bill's dog. My kids are so excited.
They are anxiously waiting for her to give birth.
Chandra Gold