Checkpoint story telling

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Today

Baby photo competition

Sentence structure

Story stucture

Your stories

Baby competition

Give the teacher your baby photo

Take a worksheet from the teacher

Guess from the photo who is who and write the name beside the correct number

Phrase.

A sentence that misses either the subject or predicate.

The dog on the other side of the fence.

Throughout the afternoon.

Waiting for the rain to stop.

Predicate:

The part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g. went home in John went home).

Between the commas: Essential or nonessential?

The teacher, who is bald, has arrived.

1. Essential clause.
2. nonessential clause.

Today's topics

Energiser.

Recap yesterday

Start with real sentence structure

Dependent clauses.

• Has both subject and verb.

• cannot stand on its own.

While Sam ran, ...

Phrases.

• misses either subject or verb.
• can stand on its own.

This wet morning.

Sentence Structure

Now complete the assignment

Writing a story

A complete thought.

A complete thought is a sentence with the following components:

• Subject
• verb
• object

This morning, Monica walked on the grass.

Story writing stucture

Assignment

Using your story idea from last week write that story

Help? Use notes on sentence structure and ask the teacher

Make your story exciting for your reader

Remember to make the plot clear 

Describe your characters - use adverbs!!!