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aCTIvITy 3.4
continued
There’s a New kid in Town
Grammar USaGe
Direct Quotations
When using direct quotations, place the quoted words inside quotation marks.
In the paragraph, notice the two different ways quotes from the novel are used.
4. Mark the text of the following literary analysis paragraph as follows:
• Underline the topic sentence that states the main idea.
• Highlight textual evidence.
• Put an asterisk at the start of any sentence that provides commentary.
Mrs. Fisher’s decision to call the fire department affects Paul’s initial impression
of his new community. Paul notices smoke the first morning he wakes up in the house on Lake Windsor Downs. He writes, “The air had a gray tint to it, and a damp, foul smell like an ashtray. Smoke, I thought. Something around here is on fire.” When he tells his mother, Mrs. Fisher immediately panics and calls the fire department. After the volunteer fire department representative explains to her that there’s nothing she can do to stop the muck fires, she “stares at him in disbelief.” Paul realizes that his parents don’t know all that much about their new home,
and he begins to suspect that everything is not as perfect as they would like him to believe.
WrITING to SOUrCES Expository Writing Prompt: On a separate page, write a literary analysis paragraph about another choice that a character made. Be sure to:
• Write a topic sentence that states the main idea.
• Use textual evidence, with quotation marks around direct quotes.
• Provide commentary about the consequences of that choice for Paul.
Language and Writer’s Craft: revising with Subordinate Clauses
A subordinate clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb. It cannot stand alone as a sentence, though, because it does not contain a complete thought. Subordinating conjunctions introduce subordinate (dependent) clauses.
Subordinate clauses and the subordinating conjunctions that introduce them enable you to show a relationship between ideas in a sentence. A subordinate clause is lower in rank than an independent clause and indicates that the idea in the subordinate clause is of less importance.
Some common subordinating conjunctions are:
after although if when though because unless whenever since before until while
aCademIC voCabULary
The word subordinate
has many meanings. A
subordinate is a person of
lower rank. To subordinate
is to make something
less important. Used as
an adjective, subordinate
describes a relationship
in which something is less
important than or lower than
another thing.
my Notes
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