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Composition Lesson 3

Composition Lesson 3. The Crucible. For the most part, done exceedingly well. Thesis Statements Topic Sentences Transitions Quotation selection SEXI. MLA Heading, spacing, page numbers. Your Name Instructor’s Course Name Date Page 24 in North Allegheny Style Manual .

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Composition Lesson 3

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  1. Composition Lesson 3 The Crucible

  2. For the most part, done exceedingly well • Thesis Statements • Topic Sentences • Transitions • Quotation selection • SEXI

  3. MLA Heading, spacing, page numbers • Your Name • Instructor’s • Course Name • Date • Page 24 inNorth Allegheny Style Manual

  4. Pagination or page numbers • Esposito 4

  5. Quotation • Dorothy Parker’s quote… • Quote is a verb • Dorothy Parker’s quotation.

  6. Avoid Contractions • Rewrite contractions in your essay.

  7. Eliminate first and second person • Do not say, I feel, I believe, I know, etc. • Remove we , us. • Replace with …. • Readers, the reader, the audience… • Remove you, your, yours

  8. Present tense • Use present tense when discussing the literature. • Reverend Hale insisted that Proctor must know all of the commandments. • Reverend Hale insists that Proctor must know all of the commandments. • Correct each verb in at least one paragraph. • See page 17 in your white Composition Style Book.

  9. ONLYsee persuasive essay PP • A misplaced modifier • only ran

  10. Pronoun Antecedent agreement • Page 34 in white Composition Style Book • Correct all of the PA errors in your essay.

  11. Appositives • An appositive is a word or group of words that identifies or renames another word in a sentence. • Identify your characters through the use of appositives.

  12. Abigail and the other girls… • Abigail, Reverend Parris’ rebellious and somewhat promiscuous niece, along with other young Salem girls… • A respected and prosperous Salem farmer, John Proctor .

  13. Related or relative details… • Dancing was a sin. • In the Puritan faith, dancing was a sin for which there was no forgiveness.

  14. Related or relative details… • Puritans tried to be good all of the time. • Because the Puritans believed in predestination, they attempted to demonstrate exemplary behavior at all times in order to convince themselves and others that God’s grace resided within them.

  15. At the end of Act I, tituba confesses… • When???????? • After Abigail accuses Tituba of conjuring and Parris threatens to whip her to her death, she confesses in order to save herself.

  16. “On page 47 in the Crucible…” • When, Where? • “In the Proctor’s home eight days after the girls’ • hysterical accusations…”

  17. Sentence beginnings • See page s 18 and 19 in white Composition Style Book. • Underline the first four words of each sentence. Look for repetitive structures, especially “This” and “It.”

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