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8

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Language Arts

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Goal Summary:

Use Verbs Correctly

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Essential Questions:

How can verb choice affect the mood of a sentence?

Understandings:

- Active Voice describes a sentence where the subject performs the action stated by the verb.
- In the passive voice, the subject of a sentence is acted upon.
- Verb moods convey the speaker's intent.
- Writers use the indicative mood to state facts or opinions.
- Writers use the imperative mood to give a command.
- Writers use interrogative mood to ask a question.
- Writers use subjective mood to express a wish or illustrate a hypothetical situation.
- Writers use conditional mood for hypothetical situations or to indicate an event that will cause something else to happen.

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Skill Goals:

1. Compare and contrast active voice and passive voice.
2. Identify the different verb moods.
3. Identify and analyze shifts in tense and mood.

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