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 Antonyms and Comma Splices
Mimicking Charles Dickens, then fixing those punctuation errors
An excerpt from author Charles Dickens is inspiring student writers to learn new techniques with the traits of conventions and word choice.Join us in teaching (and adapting) this on-line lesson and sharing your students' work.
New! You can publish up to three of your students' edited and finished stories at this page to be entered in a semi-annual contest for free classroom resources from the Northern Nevada Writing Project.
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Student Sample: Upper Elementary
 Nevada (Non-Fiction)
by Damon, 6th grade writer
It was the greatest of states, yet it was the saddest of states. It was fun in the snow; however it was dismal during the droughts. Even though it was full of pretty mountain bluebirds, it was full of dangerous rattle snakes. Although we were a rich state from mining, mining scarred our state’s environment. Because it was a fast growing state, our new houses destroyed animal habitats. All in all, I love living here.
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Student Sample: Middle School
 The Passage of Beautiful Disaster (Science Fiction)
by Jordan, eighth grade writer
While it was the greatest of verdicts, it was the most terrible of verdicts also. It was a sentence of optimism; it was a sentence of wrath. While it was the focal point of the society, it became the outcast of the civilization. It was the quote of hope, and it was the quote of despair. It might've been the most refreshing of sayings to some, but it was the most repulsive of sayings to others. It was the speech of pleasure; it was the speech of agony. Even though it was the most respected of phrases, it was also the most disvalued of sentences. In short, it has been the passage that was intended to bring the world together, but it was the end of the beginning of it different views, and it was the opening of the destruction of Earth.
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Student Sample: High School
 The American Revolution (Non-Fiction)
by Brandon, eleventh grade writer
It was a tragic war, yet it was a glorious revolution. It was a time of chaos while it was a time of organization. Traitors emerged, and revolutionaries were born. America became divided within; however, it evolved as an independent nation. It was a period of death and destruction, but it was also a period of life and hope. We have been defeated, although we have been victorious. It was the abolishment of long-standing tradition, yet it was the beginning of something new. But in the end of it all, it was a treasonous attempt towards Britain, and that was the very definition of patriotism towards America.
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