Writing Book 5 · Lesson 12

The Chaos of Pequod Street

The sentences of a paragraph are in an order, and changing it changes the sense.

What you read today

Paragraph Town, pages 39–40 — the chapter The Chaos of Pequod Street.

This lesson's text is the book itself. Your teacher has the pages; read them with the class, then do the work on your sheet.

Remember
Read it as a writer: not only what happens, but what the author did to make it happen that way.
Ask yourself: “Could I swap two sentences without loss?”

Remember

Order is not decoration.

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