Sentence Composing - Dashes

Due Wednesday, 5/25/16

Link to Criterion:
https://criterion.ets.org/criterion/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fcriterion%2f


Link to PowerPoints Slides in PDF format: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_i4DDlfmOFiQ2pqWVk2ZExZN2M/view?usp=sharing

Expert Sentences:

1. Another subject – one you’ll like – will occur to you.

2. When I tackled him – a rare event that night – it felt like I had slammed into the side of a mountain.

3. Sarah gave Caleb a shell – a moon shell, she called it – that was curled and smelled of salt.

4. When I passed the Radley Place for the fourth time that day – twice at a full gallop – my gloom had deepened to match the house.

5. The dog was not much to look at – a mixture of Georgia redbone hound and bulldog.

6. When you looked across the land, everything you could see – the horizon, the river, the fence lines, the gullies,  the scrub cedar – was spread out and flat.

7. The apartment was on the top floor – a small living-room, a small dining-room, a small bedroom, and a bath.

8. As for the terrors ahead – for Jess did not fool himself that they were all behind him – you just have to stand up to your fear and not let it squeeze you white.

9. He beat the creature off with his hands – it was trying to poison him to keep him quiet, as small spiders to do flies – until he remembered his sword and drew it out.

10. It is a difficult lesson to learn today – to leave one’s friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week.

*11. A quote with dashes from your choice novels, including author, title, and page number