https://padlet.com/ccampana1/cmyv5myv4c2803q6 Opening sentences to your own hypothetical novels -- in accordance with both tone and specified grammatical conventions. en-us 2023-10-17 11:47:12 UTC 2023-10-24 12:50:39 UTC hello@padlet.com ccampana1 https://padlet.com/ccampana1/cmyv5myv4c2803q6/wish/2750643659 TASK:

Create a simple sentence of six words or fewer.

EXAMPLE:

The king is dead.
(Nadifa Mohamed, The Fortune Men, 2021) ]]> 2023-10-17 12:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ccampana1/cmyv5myv4c2803q6/wish/2750643659 ccampana1 https://padlet.com/ccampana1/cmyv5myv4c2803q6/wish/2750912067 TASK: 

Create a character's first person self-reflection using a complex sentence structure, beginning your dependent clause with a SWABI.

EXAMPLE: 

If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
(Saul Bellow, Herzog, 1964) ]]> 2023-10-17 14:29:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ccampana1/cmyv5myv4c2803q6/wish/2750912067 ccampana1 https://padlet.com/ccampana1/cmyv5myv4c2803q6/wish/2750938956 TASK:

Use back-to-back dependent clauses (with a conjunction in-between), followed by the independent clause -- in order to show a hypothetical situation.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

(Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1850)]]> 2023-10-17 14:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ccampana1/cmyv5myv4c2803q6/wish/2750938956 ccampana1 https://padlet.com/ccampana1/cmyv5myv4c2803q6/wish/2750970431 TASK:

Create a sentence fragment, meaning your sentence should either lack a subject or a verb (thus creating a dramatic effect).

EXAMPLE:

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
(Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1955)  ]]> 2023-10-17 15:00:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ccampana1/cmyv5myv4c2803q6/wish/2750970431 ccampana1 https://padlet.com/ccampana1/cmyv5myv4c2803q6/wish/2752590044 TASK: Heavily Descriptive

Begin with a complex sentence, using a SWABI; then use a semicolon and attach another sentence after that.

EXAMPLE:

Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could sound it, and many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above.

(Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, 1837...and translated by J.H. Stickney in 1915) ]]> 2023-10-18 12:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ccampana1/cmyv5myv4c2803q6/wish/2752590044 ccampana1 https://padlet.com/ccampana1/cmyv5myv4c2803q6/wish/2752692698
TASK: Descriptive

In 3rd person, describe yourself, featuring your eyes. You may use a complex sentence or a simple sentence, semicolons or not.

Her skin was as clear and delicate as a rose leaf, and her eyes as blue as the deepest sea; but, like all the others, she had no feet and her body ended in a fish's tail.

(Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, 1837...and translated by J.H. Stickney in 1915)

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