due Tuesday, 2/9/10

1. Review the pages on apostrophes, capitals, and quotation
marks. We will rapidly go over the examples in the book.
Be prepared to ask any questions that you may have. We will
have a TEST on these three on Thursday, 2/11/10. Bring a Scan
sheet for the test.
2. Complete the Transitions handout that you received in class
on Thursday. Remember that the transitions are listed on
page 136. Read "Practice Revising for Coherence" on pages
135-137. This is an example of the use of transitions
in a short essay.
3. Complete these three sentences: When I am angry, I express
this anger by _______________, ____________, and ___________.
When I want to relax. I __________________, I_______________,
or I _______________. My favorite things to do are __________,
________________, and _____________. Be sure to TYPE these
responses to hand in.

due Thursday, 2/4/10

1. Prepare your final copy of the Narrative paper.
Your assignment sheet has instructions for handing
in the paper. Please follow those instructions.
2. Today we will have a retest of the Terms Test.
3. Review pervious assignments on Apostrophes, pages
688-694; Quotation marks, pages 696-702; and Capitals,
pages 712-717.

due Tuesday 2/2/10

1. You have a Narrarive assignment that was handed out last
class period. (1)Read the assignment sheet and use one of the
prewriting techniques to gather your ideas. (2) Narrow your
topic and prepare a simple outline. (3) Type a rough draft
[your first copy]. Your rough draft is due Tuesday. You do
not have to type the prewriting or the simple outline.
2. Study for the retest on the terms on Thursday.

Due Thursday 1/28/10

1. Study for the test over the class notes on grammar
that were covered in class last period.
2. Read in the text book "10 Narration" on pages
147-154. Notice the "Four Basics of Good Narration"
on page 147.
3. Study some more for the test.

Due Tuesday 1/26/10

1. Read "Use Prewriting Techniques" on pages 68-71.
OMIT "Using the Internet." List the five techniques and
a brief 1-2 sentence definition for each technique.
2. Study for the terms test. ADD THIS TERM: UTILITY
WORDS--words that have no specific meaning, that convey
feelings and have no concrete meaning, that are
non-specific. Remember that the terms test will include
the handout on personal pronouns.
3. Read "Capitialization" on pages 712-717. Pay particular
attention to the "specific" and the "Not specific" examples
on these pages
4. Read "Quotation Marks" on pages 696-701. Pay particular
attention to the guidelines for capitalization and punctuation
on page 697.

Due Thursday, 01/21/10

1. Read "Fragments" on pages 401-414.
2. Complete Editing Review 1(5 fragments) by
typing the NUMBER of the sentence that contains
the fragment. You do not have to type the entire
sentence. Be prepared to correct the fragment
orally in class if you are called upon.
3. Do the same for Editing Review 2 (4 fragments),
Editing Review 3 (5 fragments), and Editing Review 4
(5 fragments and 4 formal English errors). For each editing
review, type the number of the sentence that contains the
fragment. Also be prepared to correct each fragment orally
in class. Each person will have at least one fragment to
correct orally in class. If you want, you may write notes
to use in class when your turn comes to orally correct a fragment.