I'll be posting two hours of work using writershelp. This will give us two hours of credit toward our make-up class.
Second hour:
Be sure "Table of contents" is selected on the upper left.
Go to "Writing About Literature."
Read: "Integrating quotations from a literary work."
Then scroll down to "Sample Literature Papers" and read Margaret Peel's "Opposing Voices in Ballad of the Landlord."
Then go to the upper left and click "Exercises." Click "Academic Writing" and read "thesis statements in literature papers." Having your own poetry paper open on the screen, evaluate your literary thesis statement according to the questions as you progress through them.
Add this exercise to the Word doc mentioned below and turn it in.
Be prepared to discuss how your thesis statement compared to what you learned in this exercise when you are in a small group discussion.
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The first hour is to do comma work. Click the "exercises" tab on the upper left and do the first six exercises under punctuation. They are:
Major uses of the comma 1
Major uses of the comma 2
All uses of the comma
Misuses of the comma 1
Misuses of the comma 2
The semicolon and the comma 1
The semicolon and the comma 2
The colon, the semicolon, and the comma
On Monday, I will go over the comma rules, particularly coordinating conjunctions (BOYSFAN words) and restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. In addition, we will go through a semicolon Powerpoint.
Because I'm giving you the instruction after you answer the question, I'm not concerned with the score and will give you a checkmark credit for doing the above. To prove you did the exercises, though, copy and paste your score and put it in a word document and turn it in on Monday. You will have eight scores that will count as checkmarks.
I will have a comma quiz, however, on Monday. That one will be for a grade.
I will be posting another hour's worth of exercises here later.
