1. Bell-Ringer: Everyday Editing
Label your composition book with today's date.
More on capitalization: Create a list with each of the capitalized words (or word sets/phrases from the following passage and tell for each one why it is capitalized. Are there twelve, thirteen?
Lucky Trimble crouched in a wedge of shade behind the Dumpster. Her ear near a hole in the paint-chipped wall of Hard Pan's Found Object Wind Chime Museum and Visitor Center, she listened as Short Sammy told the story of how he hit rock bottom. How he quit drinking and found his Higher Power. Short Sammy's story, of all the rock-bottom stories Lucky had heard at twelve-step anonymous meetings -- alcoholics, gamblers, and overeaters -- was still her favorite.
Sammy told of the day when he had drunk half a gallon of rum listening to Johnny Cash all morning in his parked '62 Cadillac, then fallen out of the car when he saw a rattlesnake on the passenger seat biting his dog, Roy.
-- Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky (2006)
Here is the passage without the capitalized words (the specific details):
A girl crouched in a wedge of shade behind the thing. Her ear near a hole in the paint-chipped wall of the place, she listened as a man told the story of how he had hit rock-bottom.
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2. Reading minute: A1 Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
A2 The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
A3 none -- double next time
A4 Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
3. Ms. Dorsey showed and example and discussed filling out the character chart for the Book-of-the Month Assignment.
4. If the Internet is available, we will go to Computer Lab 223, and students will complete the district writing assignment.
Bring along a book to read in case you finish early.
Important reminders:
Your October Book-of-the-Month Assignment is due October 19. Have your book read and bring it and your extensive notes on a character from the book. You should be signing up for your book of the month. The last day you may receive points for signing up is October 8.
If you were absent when we went to the lab to take these tests, you will need to take the MyAccess writing test in computer lab (Room 223) during one Cave Time, and the SRI in the computer lab during another.
If you were here and did not finish the SRI, you may finish it in the computer lab (Room 223) during Cave Time. For the SRI, print your results and bring them to me.
Your September Book-of-the-Month project was due on the 21st. You may still hand it in for points minus 25% up until October 22nd.
Make sure you're up-to-date on your composition book at The Composition Book -- So Far.
