GREAT work on Appositives!
If you get confused, just remember that an appositive is:
- A noun phrase identifying a person, place or thing names in the sentence.
- They often begin with the words a, an, or the.
- They always answer one of the following questions:
- Who is he/she/they? (people)
- What is it/are they? (places)
For Homework:
1) Finish the last two pages of the Appositive Handout - make sure to underline your main sentence (not the appositives) in the sentences you create. This will help you understand and maintain the main idea of your sentence.
2) Write in your journal:
Choice A - free choice
Choice B - Choose one of the following writing prompts:
- Create a how-to manual for something you can do well (clean a fish, change a flat tire, restring a guitar, make sushi, shop for groceries). Describe the process so that someone else could complete the task based on your directions.
- Choose one of your summer photograph and describe it in a way that suggests (but doesn’t specifically name) why it matters. (Remember the creative writer’s adage, “Show, don’t tell.”) Describe what happened either just before or just after the photo was taken.
- Create a story using words of one-syllable only, beginning with a phrase such as:
- “The last time I saw her, she...”
- “From the back of the truck...”
- “On the night of the full moon...”
- “The one thing I know for sure…”
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