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Post by bugs on Mar 19, 2009 19:06:34 GMT -5
We are completing Week 11 of CW OB and I couldn't find an explanation on what the kids were suppose to do with Step 6. Same Diagram, new idea. Can you please point me in the correct direction?
Thank you.
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Post by Lene Mahler Jaqua on Mar 19, 2009 20:03:39 GMT -5
What it means is that you have diagrammed the original sentence.
Now you take that diagram, erase the words from the original sentence and construct a new sentence (kid's choice) with new words inserted in the diagram (nouns replaced with nouns, conjunctions replaced with conjunctions, etc). Then you read your new sentence aloud.
The idea is that someone may have a marvelous sentence structure in an epic sentence like:
"That government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth."
And then you may use that structure (grammatically/syntactically) and write a completely different sentence with a completely different sentiment, but by use of that 'epic' structure, you may be able to give your sentiment more force than it might otherwise have had.
Does that make sense?
Lene
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Post by bugs on Mar 20, 2009 15:50:43 GMT -5
Yes, thank you, we'll give it a try next week.
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