1. SpringBoard Activity 1.9 Another Perspective on the World

2. A Dash Sentence: A punctuation mark that indicates a sudden change in thought or tone, sets off a brief summary, or sets off a parenthetical part of a sentence. It often conveys a casual tone for the sentence.
Example:
“Yeah, okay, three weeks ago, you bought crunchy peanut butter but now you want the girls to play D & D – do you have a drug problem?”

3. The Semicolon Sentence: This punctuation mark gives equal weight to two or more independent sentences; the syntactical balance reinforces parallel ideas and imparts equal importance to the sentences.
Example:
“That's not an apology; that's simply an acknowledgment that I was right.”

4. A Periodic Sentence: A sentence that makes sense only when the end of the sentence is reached.
Example:
“Penny, while I subscribe to the ‘Many Worlds’ theory which posits the existence of an infinite number of Sheldons in an infinite number of universes, I assure you that in none of them am I dancing.”

5. A Complex Sentence: A sentence that contains both a Subordinate (Dependent) Clause and an Independent Clause.
Example:
While Leonard worked in the laboratory at the university, Sheldon installed a high-tech security system in their apartment.
Subordinate Clause:
While Leonard worked in the laboratory at the university,
Independent Clause:
Sheldon installed a high-tech security system in their apartment.

6. A Parallel Structure Sentence: A sentence that uses the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.
Example:
“Well, well, well, if it isn't Wil Wheaton...the Green Goblin to my Spider-Man, the Pope Paul V to my Galileo, the Internet Explorer to my Firefox!”

7. Sentence Variety Activity pp. 26-27
Directions: Take a minute to re-read through your Sensory Free Write from p Select 5 Sentences from your writing that either already include one of the 5 Sentence Varieties from pp , or rewrite 5 of your sentences to include all 5 Sentence Varieties: a Dash, a Semicolon, a Periodic, a Complex, and a Parallel Structure Sentence.