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Dateline: Mar. 26, 2008
Reach for the Stars Writing Workshop Lesson 12

                    "Batter-up! We haven't got all day!" Tom shouted.
                    "Stop yelling," Katie said. She grabbed the bat and scowled at her brother. He scowled back.
                    "No girls," Sean piped up from the pitcher's mound.
                    "What do you care? She's not on your team." Tom snapped. Sean glared at Katie, then shrugged.
                    "Suit yourself. But I"m not going easy on her just 'cause she's a girl."
                    "Who's asking you to?" Katie said. "Play ball!"

The only thing I had trouble with is when it said "Sean glared at Katie, etc." because I wasn't sure if I should indent and make a new paragraph, because he hadn't started speaking yet.

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Mar. 31, 2008 - Lesson 12

Posted by skmarlow

Yep, you should have gone with your "I'm not sure." :-)

Because the "action" changes to Sean and then he goes ahead and talks, you should indent with Sean's action. It was sort of a "trick" sentence to see if students could figure it out. About 50% go the way you did; about 50% indent.

But you got everything else right. Nice!

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