Thursday, May 30, 2013

week 3 module 1

employees - typing
customers - ordering
Tourists, their - driving
people - reading
workers - standing
tables - full
 
 
 
The office employees were typing furiously.
 
Customers are taking their time ordering sandwiches
 
Tourists were not paying attention to their driving because of the beautiful scenery
 
In the library, people were quietly reading.
 
Caltrans workers are standing in the middle of the street to measure the asphalt.
 
The picnic tables were full of people.



Indefinite
Everyone in the office was typing furiously

Demonstrative
Those customers  are really taking their time

Interrogative
Who are those that can read so quietly in the library

Indefinite
Everyone was at the picnic tables


ACTION VERBS
The office employees were typing furiously.
The office employees pounded their typewriters
 
Customers are taking their time ordering sandwiches
Customers are slowly ordering their sandwiches
  
Tourists were not paying attention to their driving because of the beautiful scenery
Tourists are blindly driving because of the beautiful scenery
 
In the library, people were quietly reading.
The silence was deafening in the library.
 
Caltrans workers are standing in the middle of the street to measure the asphalt.
Caltrans workers were defiant to the traffic while measuring the asphalt.
 
The picnic tables were full of people.
People crammed the picnic tables

It was a hot noon day in the tiny desert town of Independence.  Tourists blindly drove through main street and gawked at the towering mountains to the left and right.  Caltrans workers showed defiance to the traffic while they measured the shimmering hot asphalt just off the main drag.  Picnic tables in the nearby park were crammed with towns people who were seeking shade to avoid the blazing sun.  County government employees raced to the sandwich shop to avoid the rush only to find customers placing their orders in an excruciatingly slow manner.  Fellow employees that were left behind furiously pounded their typewriters as they impatiently waited for their turn to take lunch. In the cool library, the silence was deafening as the lunch crowd took their sandwiches inside and buried their heads in a book they yanked from the jammed bookshelves.  As the clock tower signaled the end of lunch with a song that told them it was one o'clock, town folk, street workers and even some tourists  hung their heads in sadness as they trudged back to their work places or continued their journey to the next little town.

 






 

Friday, May 17, 2013

Crafting an Effective writer. Week 2: Journal 1

NOUNS
  1. Paula
  2. home
  3. desk
  4. cat
  5. marriage
  6. grass
  7. backyard
  8. garden
  9. trees
  10. moths
ADJECTIVES

Descriptive
Beautiful  Paula
Cozy home
Plain desk

Proper
Calico cat
Consummated  marriage
Fescue grass

Predicated
The backyard looks messy
The garden smells pleasant