Announcements and Reminders:
Have your book ready to go to the printers and binders by Thursday, May 4.
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Targets for Today:
I can correctly write interesting dialogue.
I can edit my work to make it "publishing" worthy. |
Today’s Agenda:
Scribble:
Create a dialogue between two characters from completely different stories, books, or shows. Write at least six lines. Dialogue:
“. . . in fiction,
conversation must be a skillful shorthand which suggests, but seldom fully
states, the ups and downs, the hems and haws of spoken language.”
Allis McKay in “How to
Break Up a Conversation.” The Writer’s
Digest Guide to Good Writing.
Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, 1994, 123.
About Dialogue --
Punctuate these statements or bits of conversation (dialogue):
1. The teacher said In this class there will be no talking, chewing, breathing, unnecessary eye movements, or tap dancing
2. I questioned Are you up on the furniture again you bad dog Get down now
3. I just finished reading The Lost Hero she remarked
So what did you think of it I asked
It was excellent she exclaimed
I agreed I loved it too
4. I wish today were Friday she said I’ve been looking forward to it for months now
How come he asked
Because finally I’m supposed to get my braces taken off. At least that’s what my orthodontist promised
Checking Punctuating Dialogue
and Paragraphing.
Lab 224 -- Finish up Children's books. Shhhhhh!   |
You may need to look up the names of particular things.
Examples:
It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, arid vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. ~Charles Dickens, Hard Times
From a ninth grader:
Moist and salty, a chilly breeze blows in across the swells, bringing with it the pungent smells of seaweed and fish and making me pull my jacket a little closer. Sea spray transforms into fiery prisms as the waves splash against the shore, catch the last golden rays of sun, and toss them up like liquid crystals.
--https://writeshop.com/choosing-vocabulary-to-describe-a-place/
Excerpt from Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, notice the writer’s choice of adjectives, adverbs, and verbs.
“It was a cold grey day in late November. The weather had changed overnight, when a backing wind brought a granite sky and a mizzling rain with it, and although it was now only a little after two o'clock in the afternoon the pallor of a winter evening seemed to have closed upon the hills, cloaking them in mist.”
Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/descriptive-text-examples.html#452KfAl4V7iJWiS8.99
from Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills" (a song):
"The idiosyncrasy of this town is smoke. It rolls sullenly in slow folds from the great chimneys of the iron-foundries, and settles down in black, slimy pools on the muddy streets. Smoke on the wharves, smoke on the dingy boats, on the yellow river--clinging in a coating of greasy soot to the house-front, the two faded poplars, the faces of the passers-by.”
Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/descriptive-text-examples.html#452KfAl4V7iJWiS8.99
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Isle of Skye, Scotland
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Yorkshire Moors, England
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Florence, Italy
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
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