Love it or hate it, diagramming sentences still lives on. In this interesting creation from pop culture lab, the opening lines of 25 famous novels have been diagrammed. Our discussion went back and forth between those that saw the usefulness of the practice and those who felt diagramming was akin to reducing writing to mathematical formulas. Some interesting ideas did evolve. Marcy suggested labeling Lego blocks with words, with each color representing a different part of speech, and challenging students to put the sentences back. Whatever your position though, this visual representation shows the complexity of our language in an aesthetic form.
Diagramming the Opening Sentences
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