Building+Bridges+-+Dialogue

Building Bridges Building Bridges - Dialogue Dialogue is a conversation that occurs in a text between two people.

**The grammar behind dialogue:**

---Dialogue always has quotation marks “ ” around it.

---Each time the speaker changes, a line is skipped or a new paragraph begins

Dialogue is important because the author uses what characters say to each other and about each other to develop the plot of a story. Dialogue also provides evidence for dynamics or relationship between characters.  

Dialect a way of using language used by people who live in a region. It can include expressions, called colloquialism, and the way words are formed. In Building Bridges Mama Lil and Bebe using a dialect.


 * Here are some examples from the story. Who said: **

* "stooping to do a bunch of low-down mess-work" pg 33

* "tapping on my soul" pg 37

* "Don't be so quick to put on that down-in-the-mouth expression" pg 39

* "You're jumping out the gate too fast." pg 39

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Find these lines in the text of the story. Identify who said the line and use the context clues to figure out what is meant. Then find more examples of dialect in "The Right Words as the Right Time".

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Examine the Dialogue ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Are Mama Lil's words gentle or harsh? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">What do the words she uses show about her? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">page 37 **How do you think Mama Lil feels when she says the dreams she has left are connected to Bebe? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">What does she want Bebe to know? What is Mama Lil's message? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**page 40** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">What does Mama Lil's dialogue show about her character?
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">page 32 **