Day 1

1. Day 1 By the late 1700’s, the Enlightenment, with its emphasis on reason and classical studies, had run its course, a new artistic movement had arose. Proponents of Romanticism asked why people shouldn’t experience the world through the heart instead of the mind? Elimination of question mark with indirect question Use of coordinating conjunction to correct run-on sentence Correct past participle of irregular verb

2. Day 1 By the late 1700’s, the Enlightenment, with its emphasis on reason and classical studies, had run its course, and a new artistic movement had arisen. Use of coordinating conjunction to correct run-on sentence Correct past participle of irregular verb Proponents of Romanticism asked why people shouldn’t experience the world through the heart instead of the mind. Elimination of question mark with indirect question

3. Day 2 Romantics cheered the French Revolution, which began on July 14 1789. This changed Europe’s political landscape forever. That revolution bloody and destructive would improve the lives of common people; a concern of the Romantics. Combining sentences Use of commas to set off adjectives following noun Use of comma between day and year in a date Use of comma to set off appositive Use of past perfect tense

4. Day 2 Romantics cheered the French Revolution, which had begun on July 14,1789, and changed Europe’s political landscape forever. Use of past perfect tense Use of comma after day and year in a date Combining sentences That revolution, bloody and destructive, would improve the lives of common people, a concern of the Romantics. Use of commas to set off adjectives following noun Use of comma to set off appositive

6. Day 3 Entirely different than the poetic style it replaced, Romanticism’s spontaneity and excess was legendary. The Romantics were interested in local history, folktales, and legends, the mysterious, the imaginative, and the supernatural, and any new form of expression. Use of different from Use of semicolons in a series containing commas Subject and verb agreement

7. Day 3 Entirely different from the poetic style it replaced, Romanticism’s tendency toward spontaneity and excess was legendary. Use of different from Subject and verb agreement The Romantics were interested in local history, folktales, and legends; the mysterious, the imaginative, and the supernatural; and any new form of expression. Use of semicolons in a series containing commas

8. Day 4 Romanticism stresses individual freedom the romantic hero often becomes a rebel or outlaw, rejecting restrictive social conventions. “Man is born free, the Romantic philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, and everywhere he is in chains.” Use of semicolon to correct run-on sentence Use of quotation marks in a split quotation Correction of misplaced participle phrase

9. Day 4 Romanticism stresses individual freedom; the romantic hero, rejecting restrictive social conventions, often becomes a rebel or outlaw. Use of semicolon to correct run-on sentence Correction of misplaced participle phrase “Man is born free,” the Romantic philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, “and everywhere he is in chains.” Use of quotation marks in a split quotation

10. Day 5 Romantic painters used bold lighting effects and deep shadows to portray their exotic subjects. They portrayed them in faraway settings too. In many pieces of romantic music they often used folk songs as themes and stressed lyricism over formalism. Revision of wordy sentence Correction of they without a clear antecedent Use of prepositional phrase to combine sentences

11. Day 5 Romantic painters used bold lighting effects and deep shadows to portray their exotic subjects in faraway settings. Use of prepositional phrase to combine sentences Revision of wordy sentence In many pieces of romantic music Composers of romantic music often used folk songs as themes and stressed lyricism over formalism. Correction of they without a clear antecedent -