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Writing Workshop

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: Chillingworth develops into the worst sinner of all, as he “violated in cold blood the sanctity of the human heart” (200).

  4. Concept #2 ctd. • Poor example: Chillingworth is said to have “violated in cold blood the sanctity of the human heart” (200). Dimmesdale says this as he and Hester discuss their sin. • 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 harsh, judgmental and dark Puritan lifestyle, “the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison” serves as a stark contrast to Hester, who “may …symbolize some sweet moral blossom,” as she transcends the limits of the male, Puritan rule (2).

  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 Chillingworth tells Hester, “Let him hide himself in outward honor, if he may! Not the less he shall be mine,” vowing a vengeful pursuit of the child’s father, he begins a transformation into the embodiment of darkness and evil that can consume one’s soul (65). Participial Phrase and Level 1 Analysis Independent Clause and Level 2 Analysis

  8. Concept #4 ctd. • When Chillingworth tells Hester, “Let him hide himself in outward honor, if he may! Not the less he shall be mine,” vowing a vengeful pursuit of the child’s father, he begins a transformation into the embodiment of darkness and evil that can consume one’s soul (65). • The critical thinking process: • Chillingworth tells Hester “he shall be mine.” • What might be true about Chillingworth when he says this? He might be vowing revenge. • What can we predict, evaluate, analyze, or synthesize about Chillingworth’s larger purpose? He embodies evil.

  9. The beauty of sentence structure… We can mix it up for variety! • Vowing a vengeful pursuit of the child’s father, when Chillingworth tells Hester, “Let him hide himself in outward honor, if he may! Not the less he shall be mine,” he begins a transformation into the embodiment of darkness and evil that can consume one’s soul (65).

  10. Concept #4 ctd. Surface Level – Right there in the text; Self Evident • Chillingworth tells Hester “he shall be mine.” He might be vowing revenge. What might be true: Requires us to dig deeper. Level 1 Analysis He begins a transformation into the embodiment of darkness and evil that can consume one’s soul 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 Chillingworth tells Hester, “Let him hide himself in outward honor, if he may! Not the less he shall be mine,” vowing a vengeful pursuit of the child’s father, he begins a transformation into the embodiment of darkness and evil that can consume one’s soul (65). • Simple Subject: He • SimpleVerb: begins • When does he begin this transformation? When he tells Hester… • Thus, the phrase describing WHEN he begins the transformation adds to the verb, begins, so it is an ADVERBIAL CLAUSE.

  13. Workshop TIME’S YOURS!

  14. Quote Blending and Higher Order Thinking • For each of the following quotes from The Scarlet Letter, provide the following: • 1) Level 1 Analysis • 2) Level 2 Analysis • 3) A complex sentence containing the quote, level 1 analysis, level 2 analysis, a participial phrase, an adverbial clause, and an independent clause.

  15. 1. “Stand you here, and let me run and catch it. I am but a child. It will not flee from me.” • 2. “They said that it meant Abel, so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength.” • 3. “Had a man seen old Roger Chillingworth, at that moment of his ecstasy, he would have had no need to ask how Satan comports himself.” • 4. “There was no one place so secret—no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me—save on this very scaffold!"

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