1. What do you notice?

2. What do these sentences have in common?  The road was crossed by the chicken.  The shoe was dropped by Cinderella as she fled the ball.  New styles are worn every year by students.  The painting is immediately noticed by everyone who comes into the house.

3. Active vs. Passive  (Passive) The road was crossed by the chicken.  (Active) The chicken crossed the road.  http://www.englishvideolesson.com/2086- active-vs-passive-voice-video-lesson.html http://www.englishvideolesson.com/2086- active-vs-passive-voice-video-lesson.html  Grammar Girl has something to say about active and passive voice. active and passive voice.

4. How would you make these active?  The shoe was dropped by Cinderella as she fled the ball.  New styles are worn every year by students.  The painting is immediately noticed by everyone who comes into the house.

5. Creative Writing Time!  For each of the following pictures, write a single sentence describing it. Be sure to use the voice indicated, either active or passive.

6. Passive Voice http://with1shoe.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/cinderella_losing_her_shoe.12060547_std.jpg

7. Active Voice http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CarNcodpCMA/TFImNL2RqKI/AAAAAAAAIlc/C1UZTGu-7ns/s1600/1cinderella-graphicsfairy006b.jpg

8. Active Voice http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3JawS1C_lJU/TanwbGakvaI/AAAAAAAAKeo/aHwIZ_TdoCQ/s1600/iStockSpilledMilkB.jpg

9. Passive Voice http://www.langhorneaa.org/files/basketball_hoops.jpg

10. Ticket-out-the-door  Which sentence is written in active voice?  1. Mrs. Shoulders releases her students, knowing they understand the difference between active and passive voice verbs.  2. Her students were released by Mrs. Shoulders, who knew they understood the difference between active and passive voice verbs.

11. http://loudpoet.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dirtyfingers.jpg