English 9

Section 1

 

# 23 Define the dash and describe its uses. The dash is an emphatic mark that usually indicates an interruption of thought, a sharp break or a shift in thought. Uses are to: introduce a word or group that you wish to emphasize; a break in thought; to set off distinguished parenthetical material.

Section 3

 

Journal/free write question for the day: Write a scene that begins...."when I stepped off the train, I couldn't believe what I saw. I knew right then that...(my life would never be the same)."