Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Self-Starter:  Getting caught up --

• Plays
• Card for Mother  (Have poem approved before putting it on the card.)
• Have you made a copy of your Inspired By poem to put up on the board?  Check it off with Ms. Dorsey before you put it up.

2.  Punctuation Mini-Lesson -- See below.

3.  Concrete Poetry

Facts about the History of Punctuation from Nancie Atwell's Lessons That Change Writers
 The period:  comes from the ancient Greek word peri which means "round." Writers inserted a small circle at the end of each sentence to show that they'd gone all around a subject, that the idea they expressed was now complete and well-rounded."

 The comma:  comes from the Greek word komma, which means "a little knife" or "to cut off."  Writers inserted the little curved blade of a knife -- that is, a comma -- whenever they wanted to show a clause or phrase: a group of words cut from the body of a sentence.