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Contemplating Conflicting perspectives
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Language and Writer’s Craft: Choosing Mood
Recall what you learned in the last unit about verbal mood:
• Indicative Mood: Verbs that indicate a fact or opinion. I am too ill to go to
school today.
• Imperative Mood: Verbs that express a command or request. Go to school. Please get up and get dressed.
• Interrogative Mood: Verbs that ask a question. Are you going to school? Do you feel ill?
• Conditional Mood: Verbs that express something that hasn’t happened or something that can happen if a certain condition is met. I would have gone to school yesterday if I had felt well.
• Subjunctive Mood: Verbs that describe a state that is uncertain or contrary to fact. When using the verb to be in the subjunctive, always use were rather than was. I wish my cold were better today. If you were to go to school, what would you learn?
8. Which of the moods described above would be most suitable for a topic sentence? Identify the mood and then choose the most suitable topic sentence among the examples below.
• If Harrison and his mother were put in the same room, they would not be able to communicate.
• Arrest Harrison Bergeron immediately.
• Are Harrison and Hazel Bergeron really so different?
• Harrison and George Bergeron are father and son.
• If Harrison’s father were not handicapped, would he be like his son?
9. Which of the sentences might be a good hook for an introductory paragraph?
Check Your Understanding
WRITING to SOURCES Expository Writing Prompt
Identify the perspectives of two different characters and show how the contrast between them highlights a conflict of the story. Be sure to:
• Create a topic sentence indicating the contrasting perspectives.
• Provide examples from the text and at least one direct quotation to support your ideas.
• Logically organize your ideas.
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