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aCTIvITy 3.8
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SIFTing Through Tangerine
my Notes
WrITING to SOUrCES Expository Writing Prompt: After you have shared examples from different chapters with your class, choose one theme that you have
identified from Part 1 of Tangerine. Write a literary analysis paragraph analyzing how literary elements such as symbol, imagery, figurative language, and tone contributed to that theme. Be sure to:
• Include a topic sentence that identifies a theme.
• Identify specific literary elements.
• Provide textual evidence in the form of quotes.
Write your paragraph below or on a separate piece of paper or in your Reader/ Writer Notebook.
Language and Writer’s Craft: Understanding Phrases
You have studied dependent and independent clauses and how to use them to convey complex ideas. Phrases are another important part of every sentence because they add information and detail.
A phrase is a small group of words that functions as a part of speech within a sentence. Phrases do not have a subject and verb. Common phrases are noun, verb, adverb, adjective, appositive, and prepositional phrases. Why are all the examples below phrases, not clauses?
smashing into the fence
before the first test
a well-known historian
after the devastation
between ignorance and intelligence broken into thousands of pieces her glittering smile
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