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May 17, Monday 1a.  Peekay excels in math; however, he pretends to struggle with multiplication to “camouflage” himself. ****1b.** Hoppie punched Jackhammer on the left eye; he was smart, and he was quick
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 * 1c.** The Judge was big; Jackhammer was big; but Peekay and Hoppie can beat them.
 * 2.** Big Hettie ate chocolate cake; Peekay, sweet potato.
 * 3.** Peekay had a plan that he would follow for his life: “Mix the head with the heart you’re ahead from the start”.
 * 4.** Peekay and Big Hettie had six sausages, six rashers of bacon, five hard-boiled eggs for breakfast.
 * 4a.** Peekay was obedient and passive and shy.
 * 5.** There are three major conflicts between different groups – small and big, black and white, intelligent and foolish.
 * 6.** Kaffirs, Coolies, Rooineks – are all hated by the Boers.
 * 7.** Big Hettie told Peekay about three things – pride, courage, hate – which he needed to survive.
 * 7a.** Harry Crown (the Jewish shopkeeper who sold tackies) gave the boy a new name – Peekay.
 * 8.** If Harry Crown didn’t give Peekay his name, if Hoppie didn’t plant in him the dream of becoming a boxer, if Big Hettie didn’t tell him about pride and courage, then Peekay would’ve still been a shy, timid boy.
 * 9.** Peekay witnessed the power of one – the power that keeps the flame burning inside.
 * 9a.** According to Hettie racism is “natural” and “proper”, and so it is natural to hate Kaffirs, natural to hate Englishmen, and natural to hate Coolies.
 * 10.** Two weak people tried to pull up Hettie: Pik Botha and Peekay.
 * 10a.**** Peekay wants revenge on this one person – the Judge.

Art of Styling Sentences April 23, Friday 1. 2. Everyone in the village knows who stole the money: Mr. Gale 3. The class elected the legendary soccer captain of our school as treasurer: Jim Rutledge 4. Hero of the Year award:, the most coveted of all charity distinctions

Art of Styling Sentences April 19, Monday 1. Your grandmother was right: there is nothing new under the sun, nothing miraculous or surprising, only things monotonous. ****2a.** ** But these numbers tell only part of the story, only of the wounded, only of the imprisoned, only of the dead. **
 * 2b.** ** But these numbers tell only part of the story, part about the wounded hospitalized, part about the starving civilians.

Art of Styling Sentences March 29, Monday 4. Whether you think this assignment is unnecessary, whether you think this assignment is a waste of time, you need to finish it. ****5.** ** The basketball coach shouted that the referee made a biased judgment call, that the other team's coach took an advantage of it, and that the game must be played again. When I went to Hong Kong, when I slept late, when I bought my favorite songs on iTunes I was happily pleased, and perhaps, felt a little rebellious and adventurous at times, but back in reality I was sadly depressed.

Art of Styling Sentences** The second paragraph seems to be better: it's more specific and descriptive.
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 * 1.** Which would you say is better? Support your answer with specific instances from the text.

In terms of sentence pattern it makes a stronger relation between the independent clauses of the compound sentences. For instance, compare the two compound sentences: __First paragraph__ "Noel found this season to be the ripest: thoughts of change and potential circulated through her body."

__Second paragraph__ "Noel always found this season to be the ripest: knowing of the changes that would soon be thrust upon her made her feel a certain tie to the blossoming fruit trees" As you can see the second set of independent clauses were more closely related, making it easier to understand the connection.

Not only does the sentence pattern from the second paragraph make clearer connections, but also it's to the point. Here are the examples: __First paragraph__ "Or perhaps it was the warming air or extra chatter at home or one of a million other things."

__Second paragraph__ "It could have been Nebraska or Melbourne or Brittany or Johanesburg." Again as you can see, the series from the first paragraph was too wordy, while the series from the second paragraph was to the point.


 * 2.** With the paragraph you decided wasn't as good as the other, then make at least two changes to that paragraph which would improve it.

Greening buds, patches of mud, scattered puddles, a birth of color -- spring was on its way. Noel always found this season to be the ripest: **new thoughts of change and potential reminded her of those ripening fruits.** But what made this spring more anticipated than the last? Perhaps it was the knowledge that she was going to be moving back home at the end of the school year. Or perhaps it was **the warm air or extra chatter** or one of a million other things. Whatever it was, she knew this spring was special; it really was going to be a season of change.

Greening buds, patches of mud, scattered puddles, a birth of color -- spring really was on its way. Noel always found this season to be the ripest: knowing of the changes that would soon be thrust upon her made her feel a certain tie to the blossoming fruit trees. She too would be plucked from her current home and shipped off to some far off place. Her endpoint: Lincoln, Nebraska. The plum's endpoint: who knew. It could have been Nebraska or Melbourne or Brittany or Johanesburg. But this was not the first time she had started over on some other side of the world, and it certainly wouldn't be the last. She had learned to look for the small beauties amidst these times of transition, and she knew these harbingers of spring would always find her no matter where she moved.

March 8, Monday 2. The black Labrador and the cocky Persian cat (my dog and cat) are fighting over the ball. ****3.** ** My favorite colors - black and green - always attract me to new clothes. **
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 * 4.** ** Learning the basic skills - flexibility and agility - will help me succeed in any sport. **
 * 5.** ** Economic crisis that hit this month (plant shutdown) shocked the whole community.

Art of Styling Sentences March 3, Wednesday 1. Hardware, software, a modem - these are all indispensable parts of computers. ****2.** ** Poetry and music, painting and sculpture, drama and dance - all are complementing areas of art. Smithsonian Museum, Library of Congress, Fords Theater - are popular places for visit in Washington D.C. Art of Styling Sentences February 19, Friday "This morning, climbing up four flights of stairs was more like waging through a bad current; my legs although busily moving seemed to make no progress."  (My Blog: The Awakening) Pattern 1: Compound Sentence: Semicolon No Conjunction

DOL February 10, Wednesday** 22 students should have done the following readings: "My Last Duchess" and the book //Candide,// and they should have written a 10-page paper.

__Pattern 3__ Evolution is a very important theory in our world: theory of evolution is applied to embryology, medicine, and paleontology.
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__Pattern 4 & 4a__ In the Galapagos Islands, Darwin observed Giant Tortoises, Light-foot Crab, Finches, Marine Iguanas. So far, we studied the evolution of horse and whale and snake.

__Pattern 5__ Lylle and uniformitarianism, Cuvier and catastrophism, Hutton and gradualism contributed to the theory of geological change.

Art of Styling Sentences January 28, Thursday Pg. 27 #1, 2 ** // **1.** After work, she bought some oranges and peaches and kiwis and mangoes.
 * 2.** Our school offers soccer in spring, baseball in summer, hockey in winter, football in the fall. //