Caf

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Café Salmonella was located in the Fish District,
which was a part of the city that looked,
sounded, smelled andif you were to kneel down
and lick its streetsprobably tasted like fish.
Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Ersatz Elevator
Fill out IKE pages and find the page for dash in
your yellow punctuation packet only read these
examples.
I knew it wasn't any use thoughthe fast walking,
I mean even before the Corvair pulled up beside
me and five Socs got out. I got pretty scared
I'm kind of small for fourteen even though I have
a good build, and those guys were bigger than me.
I automatically hitched my thumbs in my jeans and
slouched, wondering if I could get away if I made
a break for it. I remembered Johnny his face all
cut up and bruised, and I remembered how he had
cried when we found him, half-conscious, in the
corner lot. Johnny had it awful rough at home it
took a lot to make him cry. S.E.Hinton, The
Outsiders
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Dash Difference -- -

• Dash
• in the introduction.
• as an interrupter.
• as a closer.
• to set off a list.
• Hyphen -
• in compound numbers between twenty-six and
  ninety-nine
• in certain compound nouns father-in-law,
  great-uncle
• in words with the following prefixes ex, self,
  great, half, and all ex-president, self-employed

• Purposes
• Used to set off information with a dramatic
  flair.
• To show a break

A dash is twice the size of a hyphen
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Dash --

• What comes to mind when you hear the word
  dash?
• Fast?
• The Incredible?
• Rushed?
• The reader should feel that same way, the
  punctuation is meant to feel fast or hurried.

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• DARKNESSCOLDCHURNING WATERroaring, like a
  thousand lionsspinning around and aroundbashing
  into rocksarms wrapped around my face to protect
  ittucking up my legs to make myself smaller,
  less on target.
• -Darren Shan, Cirque Du Freak 6 The Vampire
  Prince.

Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity,
baripity, bariptyGood. His dad had the pickup
going. He could get up now. Jess slid out of
bed and into his overalls. -Katherine Paterson,
Bridges To Terabithia
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Sentence Patterns for Dash Usagecopy these
patterns down

• Sent interrupter ence
• Sent list ence
• Sentence Closer

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• The first thing the lazy employees did when they
  arrived at workbesides slowly drinking their
  coffeewas to turn on their computers so the boss
  would think they were busy at work.
• Darry is six-feet-two, and broad-shouldered and
  muscular. He has dark-brown hair that kicks out
  in front and a slight cowlick in the backjust
  like Dad'sbut Darry's eyes are his own.
• S.E.Hinton, The Outsiders

When youre my age Leslie gave a little
sighyou just play with paper dolls anymore. My
grandmother sent me these Katherine Paterson,
Bridges To Terabithia "I never thought that,"
he began to say.
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• Most of the car companiesGM, Ford, and
  Chryslerare having financial problems because of
  the bad economy.
• The siblingsCarl, Dirk, and Ashleighwant to go
  to the water park today instead of tomorrow.

She also wondered whether cats could all talk
where she came from and just chose not to, or
whether they could only talk when they were
herewherever here was. Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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Sentence Pattern

• Sent interrupter ence

He began to paint, while the stars behind him
glittered for all they were worth which was
considerable and every single one of them held
its place in the nights sky without falling.
With your partner decide where the dashes belong
in the sentence.
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• He began to paint, while the stars behind him
  glittered for all they were worthwhich was
  considerable and every single one of them held
  its place in the nights sky without falling.
• Gary D Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckmister
  Boy

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Sentence Pattern

• Sent list ence

More to the point, said the tallest of the
group the one with most expensive frock coat, the
most expensive top hat, and the most expensive
shiney shoes.
Sentence Closer
He wouldnt go for the double just a single.
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• More to the point, said the tallest of the
  group the one with most expensive frock coat,
  the most expensive top hat, and the most
  expensive shiney shoes.
• -Gary D Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the
  Buckmister Boy
• He wouldnt go for the double just a single.
• -Gary D Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckmister
  Boy

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• Write the sentence that includes your favorite
  use of a dash from your writing this week. Be
  ready to share!