CONVENTIONS Using correct grammar, spelling and punctuation can save your life or at least keep you from looking like a dummy!

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CONVENTIONS Using correct grammar, spelling and punctuation can save your life or at least keep you from looking like a dummy!

USE PUNCTUATION TO CORRECT THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES.  Lets eat grandpa  The koala bear eats shoots and leaves  A woman without her man is nothing Now, punctuate them to mean something different. Do not change the order of the words.

MEME MANIA

THE WRONG WORD AT THE WRONG TIME…

APOSTROPHES ARE NOT DECORATIONS

COMMAS CHANGE EVERYTHING

MISSPELLED WORDS…OOPS!

GET OUT YOUR 6 TRAITS RUBRIC!  Grade the essay examples according to the rubric.

MAKE A MEME!  In your groups, create a meme or a comic like the ones you saw today.  It can be funny, but must also be appropriate!  It must be about grammar, spelling or punctuation.