Narrative

MUG Shot 9/6 The pod of whales is migrating

South through the Atlantic Ocean, where the water is much warmer.

Vivid Writing Paint the picture for the

reader. Minute details! Appeal to many senses! IMAGERY

Concrete vs. Abstract

Concrete descriptions are words that you can feel with your senses. Rough, large, green, stinky, loud, salty,

etc. Abstract descriptions are how things

feel inside. Lovely, wonderful, mean, terrifying,

beautiful, scary, impressive, etc.

Imagine a room that is not in a house or a school.

On a piece of paper, write down details of this room.

Don’t worry about grammar, complete sentences, etc.

Draw a line under the description of the room.

Imagine now that the room is your room at home. Describe it.

How did your description change?

Describe a place that you go to find peace. What is it? What does it mean to you? What is it like?

Draw another line under that description.

Pick a setting, a room or a place, and describe it without telling what it actually is.

MUG Shot 9/7 The embryos of tiger shark fights

each other while in the mothers womb the baby shark that is born is the one that survive.

PronounsPersonal Pronouns: Refer to the one speaking

(First Person) The one spoken to (Second

Person) The ones spoken about (Third

Person).Singular Plural

1st Person

I, me, my, mine We, us, our, ours

2nd Person

You, your, yours You, your, yours

3rd Person

He, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its

They, them, their, theirs

Reflexive, Intensive Pronouns

Reflexive Pronouns: Refers to the subject and is necessary to the meaning of the sentence. Tara enjoyed herself at the party.

Intensive Pronouns: Intensifies the noun or another pronoun and is unnecessary to the meaning of the sentence. I cooked that delicious dinner, myself.

1st Person

Myself, ourselves

2nd Person

Yourself, yourselves

3rd Person

Himself, herself, itself, themselves

Reflexive/Intensive Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns

This That These Those

Points out a person, place thing, or idea.• Those plants bloom at night.

Demonstrative pronouns are sometimes demonstrative adjectives.• Those shoes are very sturdy. ADJ.• Those are very sturdy shoes. PRONOUN.

Interrogative Pronouns

Produces a question. What is the best brand of

frozen yogurt Who wrote Barrio Boy?

What Which Who Whom Whose

Indefinite Pronouns Refers to a person, place, thing, or

idea that ay or may not be specifically need. They don’t need a antecedent.all each many nobody other

any either more none severalanyone everythi

ngmost No one some

both few much one somebody

Relative Pronouns A Relative Pronoun introduces a

subordinate clause AKA dependent clause!

A clause is dependent if the sentence still makes sense without it.

Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was our country’s third president.

That Which

Who Whom

Whose

FOR HW PG 345 Exercise 6

MUG Shot 9/8 Honey Badger which are

indigenous to the middle east and africa are the only animals that can withstand hundreds of stings from killer bees.

The HurricaneThe tree lay down

on the garage roof

and stretched, You

have your heaven,

it said, go to it.-William Carlos Williams

The Red Wheelbarrow

So much depends

Upon

A red wheel

Barrow

Glazed with rain

Water

Beside the white

chickens

The Great FigureAmong the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.

This is Just to SayI have eatenThe plumsThat were inThe icebox

And whichYou were probablySavingFor breakfast

Forgive me They were deliciousSo sweetAnd so cold

FOR HW Find a picture online or in a

magazine. Print or cut it out. Describe whatever it is in your

picture in extreme, dramatic detail, like the poems.

BRING YOUR DESCRIPTION AND YOUR PICTURE TO CLASS