I thought the demo Rhys did today was fabulous. Loved the text of the Ferdinand Marcos article and thought the exercise of revising it was really effective (and painful). This afternoon I've been trying to write a piece entirely in sentence fragments. SO HARD! (Nicole wants a piece composed of fragments that she can give her sixth graders to revise and correct using complete sentences. She wants it to be a topic they would relate to, so I chose whizpopping -- that's farts, for non-BFG fans.)
It's turned in to a great exercise, though, and could really help students start to identify what IS a complete sentence. Nothing like forbidding them to use sentences to get them to start to recognize what makes a sentence complete.
Thanks for another great day of super-stimulation and sizzling brain activity. (We missed you, Bud). Extra credit points to anyone who can identify the fragments in this post...
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Great idea.
I'd like to compose a poem entirely of broccoli.
Greg
OK, I was typing with one hand and a baby in the other so let me clarify. I agree that Rhys's demo rocked. I loved your idea of writing a piece composed entirely of sentence fragments. I'm not so creative so I'll just poke fun.
Greg
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