Welcome! January 25th, 2018 Thursday Do Now Get out your weekly Bell Ringer sheet and begin working on Thursday’s assignment. Once the bell rings, you will have five minutes to find the errors in the post. Remember: Do Now's are INDEPENDENT and QUIET exercises. Thank you 

Correct the spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors in the following social media post. @SocialMediaSlipUps © Presto Plans

believe: Believe was misspelled. is: The original sentence misplaces the auxiliary verb is. ATM: ATM should be capitalized as it is an acronym. Machine was also removed as the M in ATM stands for the word machine. to: Too is a synonym for also or means an excess of something. To should be used here as a preposition. than: Then is mainly an adverb, often used to situate actions in time. Than is a conjunction used in comparisons. it’s: It’s is a contraction for it is. Its indicates possession. two dollars, but: Two should be written out as it is a number under 10. Dollars was misspelled. A comma is added because it is two sentences linked by a conjunction. principle: Principle was misspelled. © Presto Plans

“Lamb to the Slaughter” This class period, you have three jobs: Complete the Police Report activity for “Lamb to the Slaughter.” Remember, you’re the reporting officer, and it’s your job to report the incident to your superior. Don’t forget to sketch the crime scene on the back and use supporting textual evidence  Finish working on your IXL: D.9 and D.10. If you’ve finished everything else, feel free to work on an extra credit opportunity – Write a continuation of Dahl’s story. What happens to Mary Malone?