Friday, October 27, 2017

Powerful Paragraph Writing!

     Assignment #2 was a lesson in Powerful Paragraph Writing.  While the Budding Authors and Artists class focused on doing their best with 3-5 sentences, the Awesome Authors and Artists were given a format to follow in order to teach the art of varying one's sentence patterns.  In their samples, you will find a wonderful variety of sentences:
~Vivid verbs
~Sentences beginning with clauses such as "where," "when," and "Because"
~Replacing nouns with pronouns to avoid redundancy
~Fabulous conclusions that tie it all up

     The topic for these fabulous paragraphs?  Animals, of course!  But not just any animals.... these animals were created in our imaginations by spelling real animal names backwards!  This would lay the groundwork for many upcoming assignments.  We've learned how to write vivid, clear sentences with various grammatical patterns, and now it is time to put many sentences together, stay on topic, and have fun describing this animal to our readers.  Enjoy these samples from across the ages!

The Peehs, by Brendan (1st grade)
     The Peehs' colors are blue, green, and red.  This animal has curvy horns and long scaly legs.  The peehs eats a table!  The peehs lives in my shoe.

The Tanhpele, by Nathan (2nd grade)
     My animal's colors are red, green, gray, and blue.  My animal has wings, two tails, and two noses. My animal eats grass.  My animal lives in the wild.  My creature sprays water.  My tanhpele is fat!


The Enarc Denworc Nacifra, by Larsen (3rd grade)
     The enarc denworc nacifra is a graceful ballerina.  It looks like a crowned ballerina.  It wears a shiny gold medal that glistens in the bright yellow sun.  At a recital, the enarc denworc nacifra wears a pink fluffy tutu.  At the end, the creature takes off her tutu and puts on her jammies.

The Yeknom, by Noah (4th grade)
     The yeknom is a good builder.  It's a good builder because it's really strong and smart.  The yeknom has really thick fur in case its building collapses on it.  Because the yeknom has thick fur, it will not feel pain as much as a normal animal would.  As you can see, the yeknom is a very good constructor.

The Noil, by Cassia (5th grade)
     The noil is a musical animal.  It has several kinds of musical instruments on its body.  With all of those instruments, the noil doesn't talk; instead, it sings and dances!  Whenever it sings, its noise disturbs neighboring villages.  The noil is a musically unique animal!


The Rotagilla, by Nikhil (6th grade)
     The rotagilla is a medium-sized and furious beast.  It is very dangerous, and it likes to scare people and other animals.  With its powerful and sharp teeth, it consumes its prey with ease.  When the rotagilla finds its prey, it swims slowly toward it, in an attempt to intimidate, while its prey tries to swim away.  The rotagilla is an animal that anyone would want to stay away from, because of its very aggressive and malicious nature.






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