Friday, July 15, 2016
Interesting Sentences
While reading the book that corresponds to our birthday, one of the the requirements is to write down a sentence or two from the book that you find interesting. I was wondering if you had to write the reason why you the sentence strikes you in some way or to just leave it as the sentences.
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To answer your question Jordan,"Copy the sentence, verbatim.
ReplyDelete(I want students to copy down great sentences because I want you to start noticing what makes a sentence great. Imitation is a wonderful way to learn.)" This is from Ms.Fletcher's Google Document. I apologize I didn't want to paraphrase her words, in the case that I might confuse you. Anyway, here you go I hope this helped. If it didn't sorry.
I don't say it explicitly in the instructions, but isn't implied that you should jot down a reason for choosing the sentence?
ReplyDeleteFor example:
The hallmark of a revolution is that the goals of the revolution cannot be contained by the institutional structure of the existing society (Shirky, 107).
This sentence expresses a very complex idea, but it is clearly written in just 23 words. Amazing.
As I did the assignment, I actually didn't put any reasons down. I thought the examples of reasons you gave us could be used and I didn't leave space for them, instead I made a legend that corresponded with the reasons. Is this wrong? Would you like me to place a sticky note with the reasons instead?
DeleteNo, it isn't really necessary to put a reason if you can remember why you chose it. Don't go back, Catalina.
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