Grade 6 Spring — Rhetorical Devices, Sentence Craft, and Formal Multi-Pass Peer Revision Protocols
English · RH G6 eng.g6.s.rh.parallelism

Identify and construct PARALLELISM — matching grammatical structure across phrases or clauses (CCSS L.6.1.e applied; CCSS L.6.3.a)

Identify parallelism in mentor speeches (Lincoln, King, Chavez, Sotomayor). Construct parallel structures across phrases, clauses, and sentences. Recognize and fix broken parallelism (gerund-gerund-infinitive mismatches; noun-noun-clause mismatches). Apply parallelism deliberately in own argument and literary-analysis writing.

Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
12
Typical minutes
45
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
Common misconceptions
  • Treats parallelism as merely 'repetition' (e.g., 'using the same word twice' is not parallelism — matching grammatical FORM is the rule).
  • Allows mixed grammatical forms in a list ('I like reading, writing, and to hike' — gerund-gerund-infinitive mismatch is broken parallelism).

Exercise pool (4)

Diff Stem Type
2 Fix the broken parallelism: (1) 'She enjoys swimming, biking, and to run.' (2) 'The job requires speaking clearly, listening... fix broken parallel
2 Combine 3 short sentences into 1 parallel sentence using Hochman sentence-combining: (1) Maya is brave. Maya is honest. Maya is... hochman sentence combining parallel
3 In Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, find 3 parallel structures. For each: quote the passage + name the grammatical form being matched. identify parallel in mentor text
3 Construct 3 original tricolons (3-part parallel structures) using 3 different grammatical forms: (1) parallel infinitives; (2) parallel... construct tricolon