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Monday, October 15, 2007

ALL CHANGE, Oct. 15th

Change the words in the sentence below as indicated. You can only change the exact word in the sequence given; after someone else has posted the next change, then you can post another change. Student 1 writes #1 Subject Noun, and changes the subject noun; Student 2 writes #2 Direct Object Noun, and changes that noun. Each student only makes one change at a time and keeps to the order indicated.If you complete all 7 changes, then start making more changes again from 1 to 7. Each student should build on the changes that the previous students make.

Most children love Halloween as they eat lots of candy.

1. change the subject noun 2. change the first direct object noun
3. change the indirect object noun 4. change the first verb name
5. change the adjectives 6. change the second verb name
7. Change the verb tense

Last week you got all the way from "My family cooks a large turkey for Thanksgiving" to My mother always cooks a large pumpkin pie for Halloween."

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

1. change the subject noun
Most family love Halloween as they eat lots of candy.

Veronica Baig said...

Bich-Thuy: You changed the subject noun, but you need to make it plural--families.
NEXT STUDENT--PLEASE USE FAMILIES.

Anonymous said...

2. change the first direct object noun
Most families love Thanksgiving as they eat lots of candy.

Veronica Baig said...

Yujin: Very nice:-)

Anonymous said...

Most families love Thanksgiving as they eat lots of turkey.

Anonymous said...

4. change the first verb name

Most families like Thanksgiving as they eat lots of turkey.

Veronica Baig said...

Satvinder and Dave: Good.