Blueprint to Writing: Grammar

Purpose in learning grammar rules and how to diagram a sentence is the same as having a blueprint for constructing a building. Grammar rules and recognition of the structure of a sentence is your blueprint in communicating effectively through writing.
Purpose in learning grammar rules and how to diagram a sentence is the same as having a blueprint for constructing a building. Grammar rules and recognition of the structure of a sentence is your blueprint in communicating effectively through writing.
Just like a building needs a foundation, supporting walls, roof, doors, windows, final trim/lighting, and construction materials to fulfill its purpose; your sentences need a foundation, supporting structures, composition, and interesting elements to construct your words into meaningful communication.
  • The foundation or purpose of a sentence is to create a complete thought
  • The supporting structures of a sentence are the complete subject and predicate (walls) and correct punctuation and spelling (roof)
  • Windows and doors add to the composition and design of the building defining the purpose of the building. The compliments of a sentence add to the composition of the sentence in the same way.
  • The finishing and trim work in a building adds aesthetics and style to it just as modifiers in a sentence add to the style of the writing.
  • Construction materials like boards and nails have purpose and so do your words, know their purpose
  • Introduce a literary piece that will shape the time period of history to study
  • Extension- visit an engineering firm or a construction site

Part I: The Blueprint

Part I: The Blueprint

Just like a building needs a foundation, supporting walls, roof, doors, windows, final trim/lighting, and construction materials to fulfill its purpose; your sentences need a foundation, supporting structures, composition, and interesting elements to construct your words into meaningful communication.
  • The foundation or purpose of a sentence is to create a complete thought
  • The supporting structures of a sentence are the complete subject and predicate (walls) and correct punctuation and spelling (roof)
  • Windows and doors add to the composition and design of the building defining the purpose of the building. The compliments of a sentence add to the composition of the sentence in the same way.
  • The finishing and trim work in a building adds aesthetics and style to it just as modifiers in a sentence add to the style of the writing.
  • Construction materials like boards and nails have purpose and so do your words, know their purpose
  • Introduce a literary piece that will shape the time period of history to study
  • Extension- visit an engineering firm or a construction site

A sentence must express a complete thought
Clause must contain subject and a verb
Capitalization and punctuation adds structure/Sentence types
  • Level 1: declarative, exclamatory, imperative, and interrogatory
  • Level 2: simple, compound, complex
Your foundation must be sure, straight or plum
  • Level 1 students Fragmented Sentences and Run-on Errors
  • Level 2 students more complex Run-on Errors

Part II: The Foundation

Part II: The Foundation

A sentence must express a complete thought
Clause must contain subject and a verb
Capitalization and punctuation adds structure/Sentence types
  • Level 1: declarative, exclamatory, imperative, and interrogatory
  • Level 2: simple, compound, complex
Your foundation must be sure, straight or plum
  • Level 1 students Fragmented Sentences and Run-on Errors
  • Level 2 students more complex Run-on Errors
8 Parts of speech
  • Level 1: focus on noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb
  • Level 2: focus on determiners or types of adjectives, preposition, conjunction, interjection
8 forms of Be
23 helping verbs

Part III: Construction Materials

Part III: Construction Materials

8 Parts of speech
  • Level 1: focus on noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb
  • Level 2: focus on determiners or types of adjectives, preposition, conjunction, interjection
8 forms of Be
23 helping verbs

Part IV: Supporting Structures

Complete and simple subjects and predicates
Compliments of a sentence
  • Level 1: Objective compliments -direct object, indirect object; Subjective compliments -predicate nominative, predicate adjective
  • Level 2: Adjectives used as compliments
Clause vs phrase
  • Level 1: dependant, independent, noun, relative
  • Level 2: adverbial, adjective
Clauses create structure
  • Level 1: subordinating and coordinating clauses and compound sentences
  • Level 2: conditional, imperative, and infinitive clauses
Complete and simple subjects and predicates
Compliments of a sentence
  • Level 1: Objective compliments -direct object, indirect object; Subjective compliments -predicate nominative, predicate adjective
  • Level 2: Adjectives used as compliments
Clause vs phrase
  • Level 1: dependant, independent, noun, relative
  • Level 2: adverbial, adjective
Clauses create structure
  • Level 1: subordinating and coordinating clauses and compound sentences
  • Level 2: conditional, imperative, and infinitive clauses

Part IV: Supporting Structures

Purpose to writing
Styles of writing

Part V: Composition & Design

Part V: Composition & Design

Purpose to writing
Styles of writing

Part VI: Interesting Elements

Adjectives
  • Level 1: tell which, whose, what kind, and how many
  • Level 2: Adjective clauses
Adverbs
  • Level 1. End in -ly and tell how, when, and where
  • Level 2: Adverb clauses
Descriptive words
  • Level 1: Synonyms, Antonyms, Homophones, homonyms
  • Level 2: Literary, Devices Alliteration, foreshadowing, hyperbole, allegory, irony, metaphor, simile

Adjectives
  • Level 1: tell which, whose, what kind, and how many
  • Level 2: Adjective clauses
Adverbs
  • Level 1. End in -ly and tell how, when, and where
  • Level 2: Adverb clauses
Descriptive words
  • Level 1: Synonyms, Antonyms, Homophones, homonyms
  • Level 2: Literary, Devices Alliteration, foreshadowing, hyperbole, allegory, irony, metaphor, simile

Part VI: Interesting Elements

Blueprint to Founding a Nation

Purpose...
Purpose...
Just as any skyscraper starts with ideas and a design, so did this nation
Inspiration and Design
  • Bible and Judeao/Christian views
  • Enlightenment Era (1685-1815)
  • John Locke, Thomas Hobbes…
Architects of our Nation: Founding Fathers
  • Who were they
  • Where did they come from
  • What beliefs did they hold
  • Why or what purpose drove them
  • When what was happening

Part I: The Blueprint

Part I: The Blueprint

Just as any skyscraper starts with ideas and a design, so did this nation
Inspiration and Design
  • Bible and Judeao/Christian views
  • Enlightenment Era (1685-1815)
  • John Locke, Thomas Hobbes…
Architects of our Nation: Founding Fathers
  • Who were they
  • Where did they come from
  • What beliefs did they hold
  • Why or what purpose drove them
  • When what was happening
Digging the hole for the foundation - events leading up to the Revolution
  • Boston Massacre -who, what, where, when, and why
  • Boston Tea Party -who, what, where, when, and why
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord (start of American Rev.)
Framing it in
  • Declaration of Independence - who, what, when, where, and why
  • Battle of Saratoga - turning point in the war giving credence to effort
  • Battle of Yorktown - end of war
  • Pouring Cement- Treaty of Paris, giving independence

Part II: The Foundation

Part II: The Foundation

Digging the hole for the foundation - events leading up to the Revolution
  • Boston Massacre -who, what, where, when, and why
  • Boston Tea Party -who, what, where, when, and why
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord (start of American Rev.)
Framing it in
  • Declaration of Independence - who, what, when, where, and why
  • Battle of Saratoga - turning point in the war giving credence to effort
  • Battle of Yorktown - end of war
  • Pouring Cement- Treaty of Paris, giving independence

Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Ratification of Constitution
Washington becomes 1st President
Formation of political parties

Part III: Supporting Structures

Part III: Supporting Structures

Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Ratification of Constitution
Washington becomes 1st President
Formation of political parties

Part IV: Interior Design

Washington DC becomes capital
Early American Presidents
War of 1812 and the American Experiment
Westward expansion
The Louisiana Purchase
Louis & Clark
Louisiana Compromise
Pioneer Movement
Slavery & the Missouri Compromise
Indian Removal Act and Black Hawk War
Texas Revolution and the Alamo
Mexican-American War/Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
California Gold Rush
Abraham Lincoln/Civil War
Washington DC becomes capital
Early American Presidents
War of 1812 and the American Experiment
Westward expansion
  • The Louisiana Purchase
  • Louis & Clark
  • Louisiana Compromise
  • Pioneer Movement
Slavery & the Missouri Compromise
Indian Removal Act and Black Hawk War
Texas Revolution and the Alamo
Mexican-American War/Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
California Gold Rush
Abraham Lincoln/Civil War

Part IV: Interior Design

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