1. Parallel Structure
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2. Invitation to Notice
“Nothing. No heart beats, no blood moves, no breath inflates the sails of her lungs. Silence.” Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife “Our eyes are shining, our skin is rosy, our all-knowing smiles are back.” Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty “He ‘knows’ whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist.” Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
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3. Invitation to Imitate
Our hearts are quiet, our tears are silenced, our all-consuming fears are back Anonymous classroom teacher
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4. Invitation to Imitate Your turn…
Use the following frame to construct you own sentence using
parallel structure:
Our __________ are __________, our _________ are __________,
our ____________________ are back.
Example:
“Our eyes are shining, our skin is rosy, our all-knowing smiles are
back.” Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
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5. Invitation to Revise
“A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a
galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people
survived even as most people died.”
- Jane Yolen, The Devil’s Arithmetic
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6. Invitation to Revise
 Combine the following sentences onto one sentence following parallel structure:
A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale.
A storyteller can make a galaxy out of the chaos.
A storyteller can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died.
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7. Invitation to Edit
He ‘Knows’ whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion
to arouse, whom to resist.
He ‘knows’ who to corrupt, who to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, who to resist.
He ‘knows’ whom to corrupt, whom he should avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist.
He ‘know’ whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist.
He ‘nows’ whom too corrupt, whom too avoid, whose compassion too arouse, whom too resist.
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8. Invitation to Write
Write a paragraph about a family Christmas tradition using parallel structure.
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