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High school creative writing homeschool curriculum ebooks
Lesson 13: Noun Phrase
We know about appositives, but they can feel like a pair of handcuffs, locking the writer into a brief brush stroke of simplified information. "His brother, a magician," "The mayor, an immigrant." Feeble.In this lesson, a whole new world awaits. Noun phrases have a noun, a nucleus, which attracts its own colorful, descriptive elements of richness that give depth and satisfaction to the reader. The samples that you see here testify to the opportunities that invite, as multiple noun phrases become
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lessons 14-15: The secret of the indefinite pronoun
"I have something in my pocket." That's a magnificent conversation starter, as people want to know what that thing is. They want details, specifics, answers.The secret is the indefinite pronoun: something. And I have made a nice little chart to show them all. Just choose one and put it into the Level 1, then move to one or more Level 2s to describe the object using beautiful, powerful noun phrases. When students hear that they can be rewarded for being vague, they get all excited. The exercises
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
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