1. The goldfish was bought by me.
Daily Edit: The following sentences are in passive voice. Fix them so that they are in active voice (The subject should be first).
The goldfish was bought by me.
Mistakes were made by the Apple corporation.
The album was recorded by Kanye West.

2. How did you do? Passive voice (original sentence)
Active voice (correct sentence)
The goldfish was bought by me.
I bought the goldfish.
Mistakes were made by the Apple corporation.
The Apple corporation made mistakes.
The album was recorded by Kanye West.
Kanye West recorded his album.

3. Passive Voice:
The subject does not come before the verb and can be cut out of the sentence entirely. (Or, at times, it already is)
Example: The goldfish was bought by me.
But look—if you want, you can take out “me” entirely:
The goldfish was bought.
And it still makes sense as a sentence. Kinda weird. But still.

4. Active Voice
The subject proceeds (comes before) the verb (as usual) and someone reading it can clearly identify it. It cannot be dropped from the sentence without completely ruining the sentence.
Example: I bought the goldfish.
But look—if you take out the “I”, the sentence doesn’t work at all:
Bought the goldfish.
See? Now it sounds weird.

5. What do you do when the sentence does not give you the subject?
Passive without a Subject: The test was given.
Use context clues to figure out the subject and use the correct one:
Passive with a Subject: The test was given by the teacher
Active: The teacher gave the test.

6. Try it! Add the subject, then make it active:
The sick patient was seen.

7. How did you do?
The doctor saw the sick patient.

8. What do you do when it is a compound sentence?
The coffee was bought by the girl, but she never drank it.
Just fix the part that is passive:
The girl bought the coffee, but she never drank it.

9. Try it!
Mistakes were made by the scientist, but he fixed them before his final experiment.

10. How did you do?
The scientist made mistakes, but he fixed them before his final experiment.

11. On the worksheet, try out changing passive voice sentences into active voice.
Part one is for classwork (right now)
Part two is for homework—if you finish early, please start it, and finish it if you can!

12. Put away your worksheet and take out your assignment book
Homework:
Finish passive/active voice worksheet
Finish final copy of poem (can be handwritten) and connotations/denotations for key words

13. Connotation and denotation

14. Connotation:
the an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning

15. Denotation:
the literal meaning of a word

16. My Expectations for Your poem
Typed or neatly hand-written on white paper
At least 10 lines long
Self-reflective
Ten key words are listed on the back of the poem
There are connotations (specify if the word is positive or negative and write down the three things you most associate with it to explain that) and denotations for each of the ten chosen key words

17. Find a partner or work by yourself and read aloud
If in partners, the partner’s job is ONLY to offer positive feedback and point out any areas of the rubric that the reader may have missed.
If working independently, make two separate columns: creative rewriting and requirements rewriting. As you read aloud, add to each of those categories when needed.

18. Independent Work TIme
This is time for you to work independently on your poem, to chose your ten key words, and write the connotations and denotations for those ten words on the back

19. Connotation Or Denotation: Speed round
I will show a word on the screen, you move to the corner of the room that matches your answer

20. Denotation of Lullaby
a quiet, gentle song sung to send a child to sleep.
Nice, comforting, happy, a positive word
A song

21. Denotation of Lullaby
a quiet, gentle song sung to send a child to sleep.

22. Connotation of Lullaby
a quiet, gentle song sung to send a child to sleep.
Nice, comforting, happy, a positive word
A song

23. Connotation of Lullaby
B. Nice, comforting, happy, a positive word