Swan Lake

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Swan Lake

• A Grammatical Review of the Years Wackiest
  Ballet!

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Got Grammar?

• Professionals rely on correct grammar to
  communicate with others.
• Critics review concerts, dance, movie, and
  theatre performances.
• Sportscasters communicate play-by-plays and
  commentaries to fans.
• All use writing to reach an audience!

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Grammar Basics

• Nouns identify a person, place, living thing,
  object, or idea.
• Nouns can be singular (one) or plural (more than
  one).
• Nouns can be common (dog) or proper (Fido).
• Verbs tell the physical or mental action that is
  taking place.
• Adjectives describe a noun.
• Adverbs describe a verb.

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Overture

• Maria Lopez and James Campbell are two dancers
  currently starring in the newest production of
  Swan Lake.

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Sentence Structure

• Prepositions add detail to simple sentences.
• They tell

When Where How

• Pronouns take the place of a noun
• Maria she
• James he

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Act I

• Swan Lake takes place long ago in a fairytale
  land. Maria, dancing as Odette, opened the
  ballet in a magical setting. She floated along
  on her toes with grace. Act I ended with the
  promise of a beautiful ballet!

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Grammar

• Transitions tie things together smoothly.
• Transitions move you from one place or time to
  another, or connect ideas.
• later, meanwhile
• Conjunctions let you combine
• two sentences to make your
• writing shorter.
• and, but, or

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Act II

• In Act II, Maria danced with James for the
  first time. Their dance began smoothly, but
  Maria unexpectedly became dizzy and kicked James
  in the head with the toe of her hard pointe shoe!
  Later, James stumbled backwards and fell on the
  scenery causing it to tumble. The curtain fell
  on Act II. Meanwhile, the audience wondered
  about the condition of the two stars

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Punctuation

• A colon is used to introduce a list of words
• Quotation marks are placed around words or
  phrases
• to show the exact words someone is speaking
• to show the titles of short stories, poems, and
  songs

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Act III

• Soon Maria and James returned to shouts of,
  Bravo! This startled the dancers and caused
  one girl to lose her balance. As she toppled
  into the orchestra pit she was overheard yelling,
  Ive ripped my tutu! but the honking of the
  now-bent brass section made it difficult to hear
  her.

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Act IV

• Chaos soon followed, and the beauty of this
  swan was muddied by the following series of
  events the brass musicians jumped away from
  their instruments causing the other players to
  scramble away from flying sheet music, the
  conductor broke his wand and tossed it onstage,
  Maria stepped on the wand and rolled into James
  knocking him offstage and into the audience, and
  the audience members laughed hysterically as
  security had to break up four fights between cast
  dancers and musicians.

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Finale

• All in all it was the most memorable Swan Lake
  ever performed. One patron was overheard saying,
  I suppose we dont need to swing by the comedy
  club now! Maria will be treated for her dizzy
  spells and James will recover from his injuries.
  This ballet, however, will not resume
  performances as scheduled due to repairs being
  made to the theatre. Advice to the wise stay
  home and rent a movie. Its safer!

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Review

• What kinds of nouns are there?
• What types of action does a verb show?
• Why are prepositions useful in writing?
• What kinds of professions rely on using correct
  grammar?
• What are the uses of quotation marks?

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Works Cited

• http//www.abt.org/insideabt/news_display.asp?News
  _ID63
• News and information regarding the American
  Ballet Theater. Photos and music clips available
  along with scheduled performance information.
• http//www.lebrecht.co.uk/galleries/leb2_ballet.ht
  ml
• Photos and artwork dedicated to dance.
• http//www.danceart.com/
• Clipart and animated pics related to dance.

• http//www.nycballet.com/nycballet/homepage.asp
• News and information regarding the New York City
  Ballet.
• http//www.artofballet.com/clip2.html
• Clipart and animated pics related to ballet.