Warm-Up | Several days before teaching this lesson, ask students to spend the next few days on a hunt for excellent sentences, according to their own standards, which they will explain when they share.
The writing is clean and simple and the story straightforward – a woman, Katherine, leaves her home in the far north of Norway after realising her husband is a liar, travels as far south as Paris, then returns to find a new partner – but every observation is emotionally acute, and (in Michael Hoffman's excellent translation) every sentence rings completely true.
If the white Corvette drives people to finding those sentences, excellent.
The quality of the statements varied from one sentence to excellent.
While working on your sentences takes practice, It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences is an excellent resource that I've worked through with many of my students.
We have added a sentence making this excellent point just before the discussion of the models.
This is an excellent point, and the original sentence was poorly phrased.
I hope that readers did not miss two sentences in this excellent column that merit repeating: "He [ ChesterHerbert, Mr. Herbert's father] wasn't ready to die when the doctors and the charts and the X-rays said he was supposed to.
According to Sen. Johnson, Yarbrough's case is an excellent example of disproportionate and unfair sentencing.
