Comma Exercises

Go here for exercises on using the comma.

Today we'll talk and take notes on the semi-colon and finished chapter two of DAWN.

Homework: I want you to write ten sentences using semi-colons.

As promised I'm posting the study questions:


DAWN chapters 1 and 2

1. Tell why the narrator keeps referring to the crying child. Explain its significance to the story or the evolving theme.
2. .Explain how he learns to tell when day changes into night. Why is night “purer” than day?
3. Explain the significance of his seeing his own face when night comes.
4. Who is the narrator to kill and why? Is there a difference between killing and execution? Comment on this in relation to the line “We are not murderers.”
5. “Violence is the only language the English understand.” Is this true only for the English? Explain why or why not.
6. Why does he feel like he is “falling into a pit’ when told to execute a man?
7. Elisha calls himself a “terrorist.” Why does he call himself that and not a freedom fighter?
8. Explain Elisha’s reasons for coming to Paris.
9. Describe how Gad “appeared” to Elisha.
10. Why does Elisha believe he was a “Meshula” or a messenger? Why does he give it so much importance?
11. Discuss and comment on the following lines. You can include what you know about the history of the people involved. “Until this moment I had believed that the mission of the Jews was to represent the trembling of history rather than the wind which made it tremble.”
12. On page 20 he gives a description of “death.” Explain what it portends for the main character and the book