The Weekly Text, 18 August 2023: Styling Sentences Lesson 4, An Internal Series of Appositives or Modifiers (Enclosed by a Pair of Dashes or Parentheses) with an Excursus on the Dash and the Parentheses

Here is the fourth lesson plan of the Styling Sentences Unit. This one, as the header on this post indicates, deals with an internal series of appositives or modifiers enclosed by a pair of dashes and parentheses.

This lesson opens with this worksheet on parsing sentences to find the adjectives in each clause. And here is the worksheet with explanatory and mentor texts–the former, of course, the excursus on the use of dashes and parentheses. This worksheet contains no modified cloze  exercises or other supported materials, only mentor texts which students will use to draft their own prose using this relatively complicated sentence structure. Obviously, such supported work is possible here, but it will require a lot of thought and careful composition and editing.

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