This week’s DGP sentence is a quote from Frank Crane:

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.”

In addition to labelling the parts of speech in this sentence, we also discussed what we thought Crane meant by this statement.  We explored the concept of trust using the definition and images in this PowerPoint presentation.

In our journals, students created two lists answering these two questions:  WHO do you trust? and WHAT do you trust?

After sharing from our lists, students began drafting a response to the following prompt:

Write about an occasion in which you needed to put your “trust” in something or someone. Tell the whole story.

Through this piece of writing, we will be focusing on the domains of IDEAS and STYLE.  In addition, some of the pieces may be selected for entry into the Leslie Walker Writers of Promise contest sponsored by the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project.  (Ms. Smith is a 1997 fellow of the KMWP.)