DOLQ3+James

Page 23. Exercises 3, 4, and 5: 3. Fresh-ed, barren, cooled, the winter left the stadium feeling great. 4. The children gathered around their teachers, chattering, laughing, talking. 5. When the game was cancelled, the rowdy spectators at the ball game booed, yelled, and threw beer bottles around.
 * Art of Styling Sentences:**

Page 24. Personally, I think the sentence was great with great fluency as it stuck to the topic very well throughout the one-sentence-paragraph. He used various sentence types, it made the sentence unique and richer in style. However, if it was a speech, then the listeners would have troubles remembering what he said before.

Page 27. 1. James loves oranges, peaches, kiwis, mangoes more than chocolate or ice cream. 2. James is so athletic that he plays soccer in spring and baseball in summer and football in fall and hockey in winter.

2/5/10 Carlos told Peter they need to finish their French lesson quickly, so they have time for chess

2/10/10 Twenty two students should have done the following: read "My Last Duchess" and the book //Candide,// and they should have written a ten-page paper.

3/3/10 Page 33: 1. Hardware, software, a modem--are what Bill Gates make his money off of. 2. Poetry and music, painting and sculpture, drama and dance--are lively artworks as well as lives of many people like Ryan. 3. SNSD, Kara, Wonder-Girls, T-Ara, f(x), 4-Minute--are passion and desire of many Korean teenagers.

3/7/10 Page 39: 2. Bull and Tom (my dog and cat) love to claw at each other and bite each other in the ear. 3. My favorite colors--hot pink, yellow, marine blue--always attract me to new clothes. 4. Learning the basic skills--stamina training and agility--will help me succeed in any sport. 5. An unexpected blackout (a plant shutdown) shocked the whole community.

4/19/10 Page 51, 52: 1. Your grandmother was right: there is nothing new under the sun, nothing new under the moon, only you and me baby. 2a. But these numbers tell only part of the story, only the statics, only the dates, only the time. 2b. But these numbers tell only part of the story, part where I killed the man, part when I killed the man.

4/22/10 Page 54: 1. I had one goal in my mind when I opened the mail: an "A", the grade I really had worked for. 2. There is a player in NBA with artistic footwork fadeaway: Kobe Bryant. 3. The class elected a wasteful guy as treasurer: Jim Rutledge. 4. Kobe Bryant won the most valuable award: MVP of the year, the most coveted of all basketball distinctions.

Patterns 1-7:
 * March 10, 2010**

Both paragraphs listed below incorporate the patterns studied thus far, however, one of them uses the structures more effectively.

Personally, I would say that the first paragraph is much better than the second due to several reason: it is more concise, uses the sentence patterns much more effectively and the paragraph's flow is much smoother than the second paragraph. In addition, the second paragraph tries to use fancy words and sentence patterns that it actually confuses the readers and also makes the paragraph seem like a bunch of useless junks. For example, "ripest: knowing of the changes that would soon be thrust upon her made her feel a certain tie to the fruit trees that were just beginning to show their blossoms", this phrase only tries to make her sentence pattern look fancy and try to elaborate a simple phrase, which actually makes the paragraph worse. In addition, "Her endpoint: Lincoln, Nebraska. The plum's endpoint: who knew. It could have been Nebraska or Melbourne or Brittany or Johanesburg", the pargraph has way too much useless information that does not really contribute to the paragraph. Changes in the second paragraph: 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. 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. 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.
 * 1. Which would you say is better? Support your answer with specific instances from the text.**
 * 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: thoughts of change and potential circulated through her body. 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 warming air or extra chatter at home 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.
 * Original Paragraphs:**

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 fruit trees that were just beginning to show their blossoms. 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.

1. If your teacher says to read it twice, if your friend tells you to skimp through it, or if your friend tells you to use Sparknotes, you'd better follow your teacher's wishes rather than your friend's. 4. Whether you think you are pretty or whether you think you are ugly, you are right. 5. The basketball coach shouted that the referee was stupid, that he didn't call the right calls, that the other team's coach probably bribed him, and that they have officially cheated.
 * Whether you think Yuri is the prettiest or whether you think TaeYeon is the best, all of them are beautiful and gorgeous.