Core skills workout: centra lued
nonfiction: "blood, smoke, and freedom," pages 4-9
march 2018
3. read the details from the section “massive attack" listed below. in the box, write a central idea
that these details support.
central idea:
the british has
more experienced
detail 1: “blast by fiery cannon blast, shot by crackling musket shot, the british mowed down the
americans." (p. 9)
detail 2: "in the predawn darkness, more than 15,000 british soldiers began to creep toward
brooklyn only a few thousand american troops were stationed there.” (p. 8)
detail 3: "many americans threw down their weapons and attempted to flee." (p.

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.

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