Transcript Stack the Deck - Everett Public Schools

Stack the Deck
Lesson 2
Combining and Rearranging Ideas
Combining and Rearranging sentences:
- Adds voice to your writing
- Helps with fluidity/cadence
- Gives the writer control over EMPHASIS
Common writing problem:
Subject Verb Object sentences (SVO)
Ex: Jimmy grinds his teeth
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Idea words and glue words
• Idea words: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives,
adverbs and interjections
• Glue words: articles, coordinating or subordinating
conjunctions, and prepositions
Do you see why it is important to know your parts of
speech?
Label the parts of speech in this sentence:
A small boy fell into the pond and swam to safety.
What is the problem?
A small boy fell into the pond and swam to
safety.
It is a subject (boy) verb (fell) object (pond)
sentence.
How do we change it so that it is not an
SVO?
You try
The following sentence is in SVO format. In
your notes, in the next 3 minutes, try to
rearrange the sentence in as many ways as
possible. Keep the meaning the same.
Sidney left for the bus stop twenty minutes
early the first day of school, hoping that he
was going to the right one.
Put up your fingers – How many did you get?
Where is the emphasis?
a. The first day of school, Sidney left
twenty minutes early for what he hoped
was the right bus stop.
b. Hoping he was going to the right bus
stop, Sidney left the house twenty
minutes early for the first day of school.
c. Twenty minutes early Sidney left for the
bus stop on the first day of school, so he
could find the right one.
Write it out!
Turn to a partner sitting next to you. Work
with your partner on the following
sentences to rearrange them. Write
these down in your notes.
1) Meg, brushing her long, black hair, sang
happily.
2) Maurice screamed hysterically.
3) As lightning streaked across the sky,
Irving hid under the covers.
Glue words, WH words, and ING words
• Sometimes we need to use different words to
combine ideas. These are subordinating conjunctions,
relative pronouns, and verbals.
• Glue words – (subordinating conjunctions) after,
although, when, since.
• WH words – (relative pronouns) who, whom, whose,
which, that
• ING words – (gerunds) Swimming is a good
exercise
(present participle) The turtle
chased the swimming boy
Write it out!
Turn to a partner sitting next to you. Work
with your partner on the sentences given
to you in Stack the Deck.
Rearrange the sentences 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13,
and 15 on pages 8-9