The Sentence Smackdown!
Friday, October 30th was the day the AVID students threw the "smack down" on sentence structure. In the midst of a writing unit on persuasive essays, the 8th grade AVID student took time out for some spooky themed learning. The classes listened to a reading of Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Raven and made note of its complex sentence structure. After some discussion, it was noted however, that within each difficult sentence lies the basic elements of a subject and a verb. In teams, students were given a sentence from the poem and were in a race to identify the subject and verb. As is typical, the team that finished first got a point. It was as if they were playing for a Gold Medal in grammar the way they got so wrapped in the competition.
Here are a few sample sentences to see if you can handle the "Sentence Smackdown!"
Ah distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, and each separate dying ember wrought it's ghost upon the floor.
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
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