September 16, 2010

September 16, 2010

1. Bell-Ringer:  Select a prompt from the long-list of prompts in your composition book and write 1/2 page about it.
2. More memoir examples.
3. Students worked more today on their memoir essays.  

Using quotation marks mini-lesson. 

Rules: Quotation Marks and Punctuation

• Use quotation marks at the beginning and end of a direct quotation. Do not use them, however, to set off an indirect quotation.
  
  
  • Bob said, "I doubled my money in the stock market last month!"
  • Bob lied about doubling his money in the stock market last month.
• Punctuate a speaker's words with a comma, question mark, or exclamation point inside the quotation.
  
  
  • Bob cried, "I'm ruined!"
  • Bob wondered, "Am I ruined?"
  • "I'm happier than Lenny at a petting zoo," Bob's enemy said.
• Place a comma after explanatory words (he said, for example)
• In dialogue, begin a new paragraph each time the speaker changes and use a separate set of quotation marks.
• Use single quotation marks when using quotation marks inside of quotation marks.
  
  
  • He said, "I know she said, 'Let's go to the Dominican Republic, this summer,' but I'd rather go to Hawaii."
• Put a colon or semicolon outside the closing quotation mark
  
  
  • Here are things "not to do": thing 1, thing 2, thing 3.
• If a sentence that includes a quotation is a question or exclamation, place the question mark or exclamation point outside the quotation marks.
  
  
  • Are you familiar with "The Road Not Taken"?

Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/19162.aspx#ixzz0zTmzP5wa

Thanks to Trent.

Schedule for memoir:
September 10 -- Type and print a draft.
September 14 peer review -- revision
September 16 -- Revise in computer lab.
September 22 -- Final revisions and editing in computer lab -- ready  to hand in.