MONDAY, 11.17

Practice plan/explore• Freshmen will take the explore

• Sophomores will take the plan

• This is going to be counted as participation points.

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• +1 point for each correct response/no penalty for wrong answers!

• Patterns: large error blocks on English/possibly loss of focus due to changes in interest level and content

• Time management problems

• Each section gets worse: Mental fatigue concentration

30 MINUTES. WORK ALONE.

WORK SILENTLY.

Check Your Answers1. B

2. J

3. B

4. J

5. C

6. F

7. C

8. G

9. B

10. F

11. B

12. J

13. C

14. H

15. C

16. F

17. D

18. G

19. A

20. H

21. A

22. F

23. D

24. G

25. A

26. H

27. C

28. G

29. D

30. F

31. A

32. F

33. B

34. H

35. B

36. J

37. D

38. J

39. B

40. J

41. D

42. G

43. D

44. F

45. C

46. J

47. A

48. J

49. A

50. H

1. B

2. G

3. C

4. F

5. A

6. H

7. B

8. J

9. C

10. J

11. D

12. J

13. A

14. F

15. C

16. H

17. B

18. F

19. D

20. J

21. A

22. G

23. A

24. J

25. C

26. G

27. B

28. H

29. A

30. G

31. B

32. G

33. A

34. G

35. C

36. J

37. B

38. H

39. D

40. F

“I want to be alone!” I yelled. There was a hurt look on my six-year-old brother’s face as he left the room. I returned to my studies. He never understood that I needed privacy. No matter where I went, he was always there, and this time I lost my temper.

A few weeks later, our lives were transformed. My parents received an invitation to join a marine biology study in the Carribbean, thousands of miles from our New York City apartment. We talked it over and decided the change would be good for us all. My brother would leave with them to the Cayman Islands.

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I would stay in New York and live with my aunt with one year of high school left. I would

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graduate with my friends and then will join my family in the islands to celebrate. Our plan was in place 3

Homework

The Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass

If you want extra credit, then you need to purchase your own copy by Friday!

MONDAY, 11.17Take out your grammar notebook and write the following prompt on the next

free page. (10 minutes, write formal language, but it’s ok to use “I”)

Be as descriptive as possible!

Prompt:

Write about a time when you were not allowed to do what you wanted to do. How did it make you feel?

PUNCTUATION: APOSTROPHES

AND QUOTATION MARKS

APOSTROPHESHave three main uses. They show:

ContractionsPossession

Unusual plurals

Apostrophes: Contractions•Contractions are shortened forms of words which have letters missing. The apostrophe is used in place of the missing letters.•It’s = it is•We’ll = we will or we shall•Can’t = cannot

•We use contractions a lot when we are speaking aloud because they save time and sound informal.

•Contractions should be avoided in formal writing though because they sound too chatty.

Apostrophes: Possession•Apostrophes are also used to show possession: who or what owns something.•This is Max’s book. = This book belongs to Max.•Megan’s dog is called Mogg.•Mogg’s owner is called Megan.•All of the bus’s seats are full.•Mrs. Jones’ Mrs. Jones’s (Both are correct for proper nouns ending in “s”)

•To show plural possession of a word ending in an “s,” form the plural first; then immediately use the apostrophe.•Those plants’ leaves are brown. •The classes’ opinions were predictable. •The Joneses’ dog bit the mailman.

Apostrophes: Unusual Plurals

•The final use of apostrophes is to show unusual plurals, such as numbers, letters, and symbols, which would be unreadable otherwise.

•There is one c and two s’s in the word necessary.

•Continental 7’s are scored with horizontal lines.

•You must mind your p’s and q’s around strangers.

•Your phone number is easy to remember because there are three O’s in it.

QUOTATION MARKS

Direct Quotations

•Use quotation marks around a direct quotation. A direct quotation includes the exact words spoken or written by someone.

•Place periods and commas inside the closing quotation mark.

•Heather Estrada said, “Read your e-mail only when you have the time to respond.”

•“Give recipients the main idea in the first paragraph of an e-mail message,” she said.

Indirect Quotations

•Do not use quotation marks in an indirect quotation. The words “whether” or “that” often introduce an indirect quotation.

•Heather Estrada said that you should read your e-mail only when you have the time to respond.

Separated Quotations

•Use two sets of quotation marks when a quotation is separated by intervening expressions such as “he said.”

•Do not capitalize the first word of the second part of the quoted material.

•“Unlike library-based research,” she said, “the information found at Internet sites may have grammar and punctuation errors.”

Parts of Published Works

•Use quotation marks around the names of articles in newspapers and magazine.•An article entitled “E-mail Etiquette” was in our latest newsletter.

•Use quotation marks around the titles of chapters in books.•The title of Chapter 17 is “Business Communication.:

Technical or Unusual Expressions

•Use quotation marks around technical or unusual expressions

•We found a “bazillion” grammar errors on that Web page.•The “downtime” for the internet exceeded two hours.

Special Effect Words

•Use quotation marks around slang words or special effect words and phrases.

•We offer “freebies” for ordering from our Web page.•Jane needs “hand holding” whenever she learns new software.

Instructions

•Use quotation marks to highlight instructions introduced by the words signed, entitled, marked, labeled, and headed.

•Capitalize the first letter of the word or phrase.

•I immediately opened the envelope marked “Confidential.”•Use the red folder labeled “Urgent.”

Quotation Marks with Other Marks of Punctuation

•Place a question mark or exclamation point inside the closing quotation mark when the question mark or exclamation point applies only to the quoted material.

•The manager asked, “Did you respond to Craig’s e-mail message?”

•“Cool!” exclaimed Kristie when she found out that she did not have to work on Saturday.

•Place a question mark or exclamation point outside the closing quotation mark when it applies to the entire sentence.•Did you read Chapter 17 “Business Management”?•Are you positive that she said, “Overnight packages must leave by 3p.m., not 4 p.m.”?

Quotation Marks with Semicolons

•Place semicolons and colons after the closing quotation mark

•Alexia explained, “E-mail is not available today because of network maintenance”; however, many of us still tried to send e-mail messages.

COMPLETE THE PRACTICE SHEET

COLONS

Colons :

• A colon (:) shows that the words which follow it are an explanation or an example of what is written before it.• A hamburger is made up of three layers: the bottom half of the bun, the

burger, and the top half of the bun.

• A colon is usually placed after a complete sentence but it can be followed by many or few words.• The environment is facing a huge threat: global warming.

• Colons are placed directly after the last word of the main idea and they are followed by one space only. They are never followed by either a hyphen (-) or a dash ( -- ).