Daily Agenda 9/13

Today's Agenda ~

* Secondary seating, middle seats open please
* Chapter 11, appendix, run-on and fragment quiz
* Answers for purple sheet (FD questions) must be in complete sentences. You must write at least 2 sentences for each question to receive full credit.
* Turn in FD books when finished with test
* Wrong book number? You need to find the book you signed out.
* Announcements: no books tomorrow OR next week. Only assignment between now and next Friday is vocabulary on Tuesday. "Activity day" tomorrow. Special guest speaker on Monday. Movie next Friday. Will not accept autobiography final copies past Wednesday of next week.
* First 15 minutes of class tomorrow to finish quizzes

Daily Agenda 9/6

Today's Agenda ~

* Fragments and Run-on notes (see board)

• Fragments -- missing either a subject (noun) or a verb
• i.e., The soft and fluffy dog. (missing a verb)
• i.e., Ran down the road. (missing a subject)
• To solve the issue of fragments, check yourself with each sentence in question...
• Ask yourself: The soft and fluffy dog did what? --> no answer, then missing a verb
• Ask yourself: Who or what ran down the road? --> no answer, then missing a subject
• Run-ons -- two different kinds: fused or comma splice (CS)
• Fused sentences merge two or more sentences together with no punctuation.
• i.e., The soft and fluffy dog ran down the street we had to chase after it.
• Note, there is NO punctuation separating the two sentences.
• A comma splice separates two or more sentences using only a comma. A comma is simply not strong enough to hold two sentences together by itself. It can connect phrases, words in a list, or an indepedent clause and a subordinate clause, but not two complete sentences.
• i.e., The soft and fluffy dog ran down the street, we had to chase after it.
• We can solve the issue of run-ons in three different ways:
• put a period in place of the comma and capitalize the next word: The soft and fluffy dog ran down the street. We had to chase after it.
• put a semi-colon in place of the comma and do nothing to the next word: The soft and fluffy dog ran down the street; we had to chase after it.
• leave the comma in place and add a conjunction: The soft and fluffy dog ran down the street, and we had to chase after it.

* Grammar workbook p. 33-34 (extra copies available); due in approx. 15 min.
* Announcements: no textbook tomorrow; bring FD books tomorrow; final copies due Wednesday -- no HW until final copies due (except vocab)
* Revise essays from yesterday using checklist from the board

• check spelling, capitalization, and punctuation
• check for fragments and run-ons
• check that there is NO 2nd person (you, your, yours)
• highlight all be verbs: is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been, and helping verbs: may, might, must, do, does, did, would, could, should, has, had, have, will, shall, can (this counts for the negative as well, i.e., isn't, aren't, wasn't, etc.)