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This Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Minilesson on Semicolons lesson plan also includes:
- Examples of Dr. King's Use of Semicolons, Shorter Passages (.pdf)
- Example of Dr. King's Use of Semicolons, Longer Passage:
- Example from Dr. King's Letter with No Semicolons (.pdf)
- "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (.html)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement (.html)
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Students explore Dr. Martin Luther King's use of semicolons and their rhetorical significance, then apply the lesson to their own writing by searching for ways to follow Dr. King's model and use the punctuation mark in their own writing.
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