Download Do Now:

Voice:
the way a writer or speaker uses words and
tone to express ideas as well as the writer’s persona or
personality
Do Now:
In your writer’s notebook, date and answer the following--How would you describe the voice of the article we read
yesterday (“What is Cultural Identity?”, pp. 8-9)?
Think-Pair-Share
• Explain your ideas to your seat partner
• Take notes on what they are saying
• Be ready to explain what your partner
thought
Things that convey Voice
• Point of View
▫ 1st person
▫ 2nd person
• Tone
• Details and
Descriptions
▫ 3rd person
• Punctuation
• Sentence Length
PP 8-10
PP 11-12
“Ethnic Hash”
• Before Reading---Preview the Text
▫ Title? Pictures?
• During Reading---look for author’s personality
and attitude
• During Reading--Look for elements that create
voice
After Reading
• Think about your VOICE focus
• Share it with others with your question
• Share your answer with other question
answerers.
•Write a short 1 minute speech that explains your object and
how it represents you and your culture.
• Use an informal voice to engage your audience.
• Use vivid details and descriptions.
• Use diction and punctuation to create an appropriate tone.
Exit Slip
• Three Things
▫ 1 thing you learned today
▫ 1 thing you have questions about
▫ 1 thing you enjoyed
Do Now: Write in vocab journalSyntax---
the arrangement of words and phrases in a sentence
or
the way in which words are put together to make phrases,
clauses, and sentences
Changing Syntax changes Voice
• I want eggrolls.  Right now, I want
eggrolls.
• Throwing the
pen.
 I threw the pen.
I want eggrolls right
now!
The pen was thrown
by me.
Basic Sentence
• Noun + Verb
▫ I ran.
▫ He danced.
• Subject + Predicate
▫ Tuna salad sandwiches stink badly.
▫ Yellow pickles should be thrown away.
Understanding Phrases
• Gerunds
• Participles
• Infinitives
Gerunds
• A verb ending in –ing that acts like a noun
▫ Dancing is awesome!
▫ Eating is even better!
• A gerund phrase is a gerund + modifiers
▫ Square dancing is corny.
▫ Eating nasty food is worse.
Pp 398
Participle
Pp 398-399
• A verb (ending in –ing, -ed, -t, -n) that functions
as an adjective.
▫ The dancing fool stepped on my foot.
▫ The shaken woman cried over the accident.
• A participial phrase includes its own modifiers
▫ Partially eaten corn will show up about a day later.
▫ The idiot dancing over there is annoying.
Infinitives
• A verb using the word “to” in front of it. It can
function as a noun, adjective or adverb.
▫ To eat is to live.
▫ I want to dance.
• Infinitive phrases includes its modifiers.
▫ To dance while eating is dangerous.
▫ I want to eat eggrolls in the morning.
PP 399-400
Pair Response Cards
• I will read the sentence.
• You and your partner will decide what type of
phrase the highlighted portion of the sentence is.
• Write it on the white board, but do not lift it
until I say GO!
Go through your summer reading essay.
Highlight the three types of phrases.
If you are missing one type, revise a sentence to add it in.