Students in 7th and 8th grade have been busily studying, utilizing, rearranging and identifying verbs. They have learned about verb phrases, simple tenses, forms of be, have, and do, perfect tenses, irregular verbs, progressive forms, transitive and intransitive verbs, direct and indirect objects and more. Currently students have finished a section on active and passive voices. Here is an example:
ACTIVE VOICE: Monkeys surrounded the buildings at St. Rose of Lima.
PASSIVE VOICE: St. Rose of Lima was surrounded by monkeys.
Students continue to improve their writing skills by use of higher level verbs, adjectives, adverbs and other exemplary tools. When should students use and apply these skills? The answer would be always.
Both classes completed a beautiful project using exemplary writing skills which focused on vivid imagery.
Here are some lines quoted from students’ work;
“Purple, glistening water crashes gently on the pale, white sand” (Maribel Garcia)
“Stretching all the way to the horizon, the blue expanse of water gently dances under the heavens above, creating breathtaking scenery” (Eunice Martinez)
“A pool of foam amassed beneath the waterfall in a cloud of white mist” and ”The unusually mossy green sunset, tinted the evening sky with striking flashes of gold stretching across it, like brushstrokes of paint streaking a canvas.” (Diana De La Toba)
“Simultaneously, vibrant explosions echoed throughout the terrain as if the world was at war, the reverberant machine guns, grenades, and bombs drifted unknowingly in the air as lightning struck.” and “Amidst the opaque lining of the celestial horizon, clouds of anonymously desolate shapes ensue to consummate, cloaking the land like a curtain, pristinely embellished in vivid ebony.”
"Wonderously vivid shades of indigo, burgundy, and myrtle gleam through
