13 November 2013 for Periods 5 & 6 and 14 November 2013 for Periods 1, 2, & 7
Students received back the graded exercises that they completed yesterday.
Mr. Stone went over the directions for completing Exercise 11 (Interrupting Parenthetical Elements), Exercise 12 (Interrupting Nonessential Elements), and Exercise 13 (Conventional Commas), covering the principles/rules for conventional commas. (Commas separate the names of geographic locations, like elements of dates, parts of an address when written in prose, every third digit in large numbers, surnames from any following titles, speech tags from quoted dialogue. Commas are also used to conventionally used to indicate omitted words in elliptical sentence structures.)
Students received a the first of two practice tests.
Homework: Complete the first comma practice test.
Note: Students will correct the first practice test in class during the next class period, take and correct a second practice test, and take the actual comma test during the first English class of next week.
An extra credit point is being offered for students who bring a printout showing they have completed one of the comma practice quiz/exercise links found on the right-hand side of this blog.
Blake Walker
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