1. Colon
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2. What do you Notice? “The deputy told me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a stick of gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard.” Carl Hiaasen, Flush
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3. Invitation to Imitate The TSA employee told me to empty my backpack: 17 pens, a journal, a copy of Hunger Games, and my iPod Anonymous classroom teacher
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4. Invitation to Imitate Your turn…
Use the following frame to write your own sentence imitating the one by Carl Hiaasen: _________ told me to empty my _____________: ___________, ____________, and ___________.
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5. Invitation to Revise Combine the following sentences placing a
colon where it would make sense:
I look at my little sister.
I think about how she has inherited the best qualities our family has to offer.
She has my mother’s healing hands.
She has my father’s level head.
She has my fight.
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6. Invitation to Edit
The deputy told me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a
stick of gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard.
The Deputy told me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a stick of gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard.
The deputy told me to empty my pockets, two quarters, a penny, a stick of gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard.
The deputy told me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a stick of gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skatebored.
The deputy telled me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a stick of gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard.
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7. Invitation to Write
Brainstorm ways to use the colon to introduce a list.
Write a short passage that includes a sentence with a colon that introduces a list.
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