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aCTIvITy 3.7
continued
September 11 perspectives
INdepeNdeNT
readING LINk
Read & Connect
Now that you have compared a nonfiction article about the events of 9/11 with a fictional account of a sinkhole in the novel Tangerine, take time to think about your Independent Reading. What connections can you make between the three texts? For example, what similarities and differences do you notice about the narrators of the texts? How about the mood or feeling created by the text? What about the central figures or characters? Write
a brief paragraph about the similarities and differences you notice.
my Notes
Language and Writer’s Craft: revising with Coordinating
Conjunctions
One way to structure sentences is to create compound sentences. It is easy
to combine short sentences (independent clauses) by using a coordinating conjunction. This structure is a way of showing specific relationships among ideas. Following is a list of coordinating conjunctions:
and, but, or, for, so, yet, nor
Here are examples of sentences that could be combined with coordinating conjunctions. What is the relationship created?
Old Charley Burns did not inspect construction sites.
Buildings were constructed in unsafe places.
What would be the best conjuction to use?
Old Charley Burns neglected to inspect construction sites, buildings were constructed in unsafe places.
The sinkhole was extremely dangerous.
Paul and Joey rescued many students.
What would be the best conjunction to use?
The sinkhole was extremely dangerous, Paul and Joey rescued many students. (contrast; conditional?)
Try combining the two sentences above by using adverbial clauses from Activity 3.4.
Check Your Understanding
Revise one of the sentences from your quickwrite by combining sentences using coordinating conjunctions and/or adverbial clauses.
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