1. 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)?

2. 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

3. Things that convey Voice
Point of View
1st person
2nd person
3rd person
Punctuation
Sentence Length
Tone
Details and Descriptions
PP 8-10

4. “Ethnic Hash” Before Reading---Preview the Text
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

5. After Reading Think about your VOICE focus
Share it with others with your question
Share your answer with other question answerers.

6. Presenting Our Ethnic Hash
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.

8. Exit Slip Three Things 1 thing you learned today
1 thing you have questions about
1 thing you enjoyed

9. Do Now: Write in vocab journal-
Syntax---
the arrangement of words and phrases in a sentence or
the way in which words are put together to make phrases, clauses, and sentences

10. Changing Syntax changes Voice
I want eggrolls.
Throwing the pen.
Right now, I want eggrolls.
I threw the pen.
I want eggrolls right now!
The pen was thrown by me.

11. Basic Sentence Noun + Verb Subject + Predicate I ran. He danced.
Tuna salad sandwiches stink badly.
Yellow pickles should be thrown away.

12. Understanding Phrases
Gerunds
Participles
Infinitives

13. 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

14. Pp
Participle
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.

15. 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

16. 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!

17. Homework 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.