 Student Writer Instructions:
Today, you'll be mimicking the famous passage that begins Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times..."
While Dickens based his opposite words on a time in history, you'll be basing your words on something from modern day. The interactive button below might help you come up with a topic on which to base your mimicry.
Once you have a topic, you will need to include seven superlative antonyms into a rough draft. A superlative usually ends in -est or has the word most in front of it. "It was the most ridiculous day of my life, it was the sanest day of my life." Your rough draft needs to have seven of these comparisons, and it needs to have a conclusion that seems similar to Mr. Dickens.
Then...you will rewrite the entire passage, doing what Charles Dickens did not do: fixing the comma splices. To fix each comma splice, you will need to use a coordinating conjunction, an adverbial conjunction, or a subordinating conjunction.
In your second draft, please have at least two examples of comma splices that have been fixed by each of the conjunction types listed above. |
