1. Subjective Pronouns
Grade 6 | Intensive Pronouns

2. What do you Notice?
“He sat by the windows, hunched down in a rocking chair,
scowling, waiting.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Grade 6 | Intensive Pronouns

3. Invitation to Imitate
I sat at the restaurant counter, twirling on a stool,
daydreaming, anticipating.
- Anonymous classroom teacher
Grade 6 | Intensive Pronouns

4. Invitation to Imitate Your turn…
______________________________, ______________________,
(Use: I, we, you, he, she, it or they) (Tell Where)
__________________, ___________________, _______________.
(Verb) (Verb) (Verb)
Example:
I sat at the restaurant counter, twirling on a stool, daydreaming, anticipating.
Grade 6 | Intensive Pronouns

5. Invitation to Revise
Rewrite at least three of the following sentences, replacing the
subject/subject phrase with a subjective pronoun:
The creature in the mist was glaring at us with piercing, menacing eyes.
And then the girl said something that caused the blood to completely drain from my face.
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
- Stephen King, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
Grade 6 | Intensive Pronouns

6. Invitation to Edit He sat by the windows, hunched down in a rocking
chair, scowling, waiting.
Him sat by the windows, hunched down in a rocking chair,
scowling, waiting.
He sat by the windows, hunched down in a rocking chair,
scowling, waited.
He sat by the windows. Hunched down in a rocking chair,
scowling, weighting.
Grade 6 | Intensive Pronouns

7. Invitation to Write
Directions: Write a short passage using at least two of the seven subjective pronouns. I We You He She It They
Grade 6 | Intensive Pronouns