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2 What do you notice? Catherine the Great, my Russian grandma, is already awake. -- Cari Best, Three Cheers for Catherine the Great! (2003) Copy the following sentence in your LA composition book:

3 Why use appositives? Sometimes when we write, we want to add new information without creating a new sentence. For example…

4 Clementine is funny. She is in third grade. She lives in New York. Clementine, a funny third grader, lives in New York. BORING!

5 Let’s ask ourselves, what is being renamed?? Avon, a rather small snail, read a book every day.

6 So what is an appositive?? noun or pronoun -- often with modifiers - - set beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify itnoun or pronoun -- often with modifiers - - set beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify it Keith, the boy in rumpled shorts and shirt, did not know he was being watched as he entered room 215 of the Mountain View Inn.

7 Placement of appositives An appositive phrase usually follows the word it explains or identifies, but it may also precede it.An appositive phrase usually follows the word it explains or identifies, but it may also precede it.

8 So let’s practice using appositives So let’s practice using appositives I watched her playing ladushky with Mimmo so he wouldn’t cry.I watched her playing ladushky with Mimmo so he wouldn’t cry. Ladushky is a clapping song.Ladushky is a clapping song. The clapping song is Russian.The clapping song is Russian.

9 When do we use punctuation? Remember non-essential clauses/phrases? –Commas

10 When there is an essential information contained in the appositive, then you don’t need commas.When there is an essential information contained in the appositive, then you don’t need commas.

11 Check out our mentor texts using appositives! Read in your chosen book and find sentences using appositives. When you find one, write it on a sticky note and place on the chart tablet! Invitation to Find!

12 Invitation to Write My time with Albert Einstein, my grandfather, passed all too quickly. — Marfe Ferguson Delano,Genius: A Photography of Albert Einstein (2005) Let’s create… My time with ________________, my _________________, passed all too __________.

13 Invitation to Imitate “Gilly gave little William Ernest the most fearful face in all her collection of scary looks, a cross between Count Dracula and Godzilla.“ (Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins) Copy in your LA book and imitate…

14 An Appositive Flipbook Subject, appositive, verb Get the idea… Subject, appositive, verb Gil Grisom, a TV crime scene investigator,loves insects. Edie, a freckle-faced mother,drives a minivan. Lil’ Mama, a rap star,released a new CD. The Mercedes, an expensive import,is made in Germany. McDonald’s, home of fat and cholesterol,is at the end of the street. Examples

15 An Appositive Flipbook Subject, appositive, verb You create it now… Subject, appositive, verb TV Star, Friend, Famous Singer, Car, Place, Use modifiers in the appositives.

16 Invitation to Notice and Imitate The army was led by one of Britain’s most colorful officers, General John Burgoyne. Burgoyne was known as Gentleman Johnny. He was a wild character: a drinker, a gambler, actor, playwright— and a pretty good general. —Joy Hakim, The History of the US: From Colonies to Country, 1735-1791 (1993)

17 Just for fun…can you spot the appositives? "That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon.“ —Fredrick Douglass, Narrative From the Life of Fredrick Douglass (1993)

18 Give One – Get One Game 1.Every person has a game card. 2.You must share three appositive sentences with three different people. 3.You must have three sentences from three different people, and you must share three different appositive sentences from your own flipbook. 4.After you receive a sentence from someone, write that person’s name underneath the sentence. 5.You have 4 minutes to accomplish this mission!

19 New LA homework: Water and Hard as Nails – due 11/19/15

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21 The Black Death is the name for a terrible disease that spread throughout Europe from 1347 to 1350. There was no cure for the disease and it was highly contagious. How did it start? The plague likely started in Asia and traveled westward along the Silk Road. The disease was carried by fleas that lived on rats. Historians think that black rats living on European merchant ships caught the disease, eventually bringing it to Europe. Quickwrite: Imagine you live in a port city in Italy and a ship has just arrived with a bunch of sick or dead people. Describe the scene with figurative language and imagery. What are you thinking? What do you do? Silk RoadSilk Road

22 Left For Dead – Ch. 1-2 Question Sheet


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