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Writing Workshop. Complex Sentence Construction with Blended Quotes. Concept #1. Blending quotes is as much about thinking critically as it is about writing better sentences. A sentence that effectively blends a quote reveals analytical insights into a text that go well beneath the surface.

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Writing Workshop

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  1. Writing Workshop Complex Sentence Construction with Blended Quotes

  2. Concept #1 • Blending quotes is as much about thinking critically as it is about writing better sentences. • A sentence that effectively blends a quote reveals analytical insights into a text that go well beneath the surface. • Applying complex sentence structure provides a framework to dig deeper beneath the text.

  3. Concept #2 • Your sentences that contain quotes from the text should be analytical sentences that happen to have a quote embedded in to your own analysis. • Ex: Gene realizes how much Phineas is a part of himself when he says, “I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral” (194).

  4. Concept #2 ctd. • Poor example: Gene says “I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral” (194). He says this as Phineas is being laid to rest. • Is anything in he above sentence actually analysis of the text?

  5. Concept #3 • A complex sentence with a blended quote should contain a quote that reveals an important insight, and does not merely reveal plot. EX: Symbolizing the warmth and protection of innocence and youth, “from the Devon Woods trees reached in an unbroken, widening corridor” serving as a thick barrier of protection from the harsh outside world, during the innocence of the summer session(30).

  6. Concept #4 • The anatomy of a complex thought process and a complex sentence with a quote from the text: • 6 Part Sentence: • Self Evident detail (quote from text) • Level 1 Analysis (what might be true) • Level 2 Analysis (what larger idea we can infer) • Participial Phrase • Adverbial Clause • Independent Clause

  7. Concept #4 ctd. Adverbial Clause and Self Evident Detail • When Gene explains that “the tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age,” remarking on the change in the tree over fifteen years, his coming of age and change in perspective parallels the altered appearance of a tree that once meant the world to Gene (14). Participial Phrase and Level 1 Analysis Independent Clause and Level 2 Analysis

  8. Concept #4 ctd. • When Gene explains that “the tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age,” remarking on the change in the tree over fifteen years, his coming of age and change in perspective parallels the altered appearance of a tree that once meant the world to Gene (14). • The critical thinking process: • Gene says, “the tree” looked very different • What might be true about Genewhen he says this? He has changed as much as the tree. • What can we predict, evaluate, analyze, or synthesize about Knowles’ larger purpose with this scene? Gene has come of age and sees things very differently now.

  9. The beauty of sentence structure… We can mix it up for variety! • Remarking on the change in the tree over fifteen years, When Gene explains that “the tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age,” his coming of age and change in perspective parallels the altered appearance of a tree that once meant the world to Gene (14).

  10. Concept #4 ctd. Surface Level – Right there in the text; Self Evident • Leper goes AWOL while in the army He can’t handle the realities of war. What might be true: Requires us to dig deeper. Level 1 Analysis Leper is not ready to exist in an unprotected, adult world. What we can evaluate/synthesize. The “gems!” Level 2 Analysis

  11. Phrases and Clauses Review • Phrases: Missing either a subject or the verb • Clauses: Have all the stuff (Subject and Verb) • Adverbial Clauses – Add more information to he basic verb (when, why, how… does the action happen) • Participle Phrases- always function as adjectives, adding description to the sentence

  12. Phrases and Clauses Review • When Gene explains that “the tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age,” remarking on the change in the tree over fifteen years, his coming of age and change in perspective parallels the altered appearance of a tree that once meant the world to Gene (14). • Simple Subject: His change • Simple Verb: parallels • When does his change parallel the tree? When he explains that… • Thus, the phrase describing WHEN he parallels the tree adds to the verb, parallels, so it is an ADVERBIAL CLAUSE.

  13. Workshop TIME’S YOURS!

  14. Quote Blending and Higher Order Thinking • Using the info you gathered on your chart yesterday, construct complex sentences that blend your quote into your level 1 and level 2 analysis.

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