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7th Grade Language Arts
Agenda:
1. Independent Reading
2. Grammar
3. Writing Workshop
Assignments:
-Lesson 9 handout (F)
-Spelling Test (F)
-comments to 2 students'
responses (F)
-Vocabulary Bubbles (M)
-Grammar Test (T)

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Objects of Verbs­ follows an action verb
• Direct Objects­ names the receiver of the
action
o What or Whom does/did/do S.V.?
o Many Beijing residents ride bicycles.
§ What do residents ride? = bicycles
o New Yorkers take the Subway.
§ What do New Yorkers take? = Subway

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Indirect Objects­ tells to whom or what an action
is performed
o Usually comes between the verb and the direct
object
o to/for whom or what does/did/do S.V. DO?
o Mass transit offers people easy commutes.
§ 1st­ find the Direct object­ What does transit
offer? = commutes
§ 2nd­ find indirect object­ to whom does transit
offer commutes? = people
o Gondolas give Venetians romantic ideas.
§ 1st­ What do gondolas give? = ideas
2nd­ to whom do gondolas give ideas? =
Venetians
*You cannot have an indirect object without a direct
object (but you can have a direct and no indirect)

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1. The interstate highway system offers American cities a
connection with each other.
2. State governments began building the system in the 1950s.
3. The federal government gave the states funds for their
portions of the interstate highway system.
4. Builders poured concrete by the ton during the project.
5. They moved enough soil to cover Connecticut.

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Voice
Voice is the magic and the feelings of the individual
writer coming out through the words.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's
about, but the inner music the words make.
~Truman Capote, McCall's, November 1967
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Word Choice
Word choice is the use of rich and colorful
language that moves and enlightens the reader.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of
light on broken glass.
~Anton Chekhov
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