Book Report Revised Draft Submitted; Comma Principles Introduced

Students were given the first ten minutes of class to print out their revised drafts and submit them.

Mr. Stone then distributed a handout defining the four underlining principles of commas: series, coordinate, introductory, and interrupting.

Some of the periods also discussed the other conventional uses of commas.

Mr. Stone emphasized the dangers of attempting to punctuate by feeling and urged students to punctuate by principle.

Homework: Select a biography/autobiography for the second quarter book report and read it for twenty minutes. (Student had the opportunity in a class period in the library to select a book.)