Nicholas Sparks ~ Safe Haven

As Katie wound her way among the tables, a breeze from the Atlantic rippled through her hair. Carrying three plates in her left hand and another in her right, she wore jeans and a T-shirt that read Ivans: Try Our Fish Just for the Halibut. She brought the plates to four men wearing polo shirts; the one closest to her caught her eye and smiled.  ~ Chapter 1, Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
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Identify the compound sentence, the complex sentence,  and the multiple participial phrases.




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As Katie wound her way among the tables, a breeze from the Atlantic rippled through her hair. Carrying three plates in her left hand and another in her right, she wore jeans and a T-shirt that read Ivans: Try Our Fish Just for the Halibut. She brought the plates to four men wearing polo shirts; the one closest to her caught her eye and smiled.

• Subordinate Clause
• Participial Phrases
• One of the three ways to join a compound sentence

Your Turn

• Imitate Sparks' first two sentences.

Arthur Miller ~ Participial

Allusion:  Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

• View book trailer here.
• Hint:  this might be a potential thematic topic to pursue as we read The Crucible.

"The heart of darkness was the belief that a massive, profoundly organized conspiracy was in place and carried forward mainly by a concealed phalanx of intellectuals,including labor activists, teachers, professionals, sworn to undermine the American government."

• Arthur Miller, "Are You Now Or Were You Ever?" from The Guardian/The Observer(online), Saturday, June 17, 2000

Participial and Participial Phrases:  four in one sentence.

• Note the descriptive detail these participials add to the sentence:
• organized
• concealed
• including labor activists, teachers, professionals
• sword to undermine the American government
• SEE the difference?
• "The heart of darkness was the belief that a massive conspiracy was in place and carried forward mainly by a phalanx of intellectuals."
• Group Work:  Using this sentence, embellish it with participials and participial phrases...please!
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• Individual Assessment:  Check-up Time!

Arthur Miller ~ Appositive

"An ideological war is like guerrilla war, since the enemy is an idea whose proponents are not in uniform but are disguised as ordinary citizens, a situation that can scare a lot of people to death."

• Arthur Miller, "Are You Now Or Were You Ever," The Guardian/The Observer (online), Saturday, June 17, 2000

Ray Bradbury on Reading

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

"There are worse crimes than burning books.  One of them is not reading them."  1920

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What sentence pattern is repeated in these two quotes?

The Power of the Sentence

"What I have learned from about 20 years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don't begrudge the 99%."  ~John Piper