1. LA: Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Handouts: * Grammar #78–Quotation Marks * If you were absent yesterday, pick up make-up work.
Homework: * Grammar #78–Quotation Marks
Assignments due: * Grammar #77–Semi-colons and Colons

2. Starter #1 Take out your comp book. Turn to the first blank page
Starter #1 Take out your comp book. Turn to the first blank page. In the upper right hand corner, write the following:
Wed., Sept. 26, 2018
QW #16: My Happy Place
Then copy the bold print portion of this prompt on the top lines:
Where is your “happy place,” that is, the place where you feel most loved and secure? It could be somewhere in your home, in a club house, on a car trip, or any other place that’s special to you. Explain why that’s your happy place and describe the things you do there that make it so special.
Remember to write in complete sentence, avoiding fragments and run-ons. If you are not sure how to spell a certain word, just sound it out and circle it.

3. Lesson Goal: Demonstrate your ability to apply quotation marks correctly in sentences.
Outcomes: Be able to . . .
Explain what quotation marks are and what they signify (stand for).
Apply quotation marks correctly in sentences.
Apply other punctuation symbols correctly when used with quotation marks.

4. A semi-colon looks like this ;
Starter #2: Visually speaking, what is the difference between a colon and a semi-colon?
A colon looks like this :
A semi-colon looks like this ;
The colon and semi-colon look similar, but they have two distinctly different purposes. What is the purpose of a semi-colon?
The purpose of a semi-colon is to join two simple sentences to create one compound sentence.
Belinda likes oatmeal for breakfast; I prefer cream of wheat.
In a compound sentence, when should you use a conjunction AND a semi-colon?
Never!

5. Use a colon to separate the hour and minutes in expressing time.
Starter #3 Yesterday we learned that a colon is used in one of three ways: What are they?
Use a colon to introduce a list of items (often using the words such as these, the following, or as follows).
English words that come from Spanish include the following: ranch, corral, and stampede.
Use a colon to separate the hour and minutes in expressing time.
School begins at 8:15 on the dot.
Use a colon after the salutation (opening greeting) in a business letter.
Dear Professor Donohue:
To whom it may concern:
Did anyone notice anything unusual about how we wrote Starter #3?
There are really four ways to use a colon (this lesson does not cover that).
The fourth way to use a colon is in a certain kind of compound sentence. When the second simple sentence is directly connected to the first sentence in order to complete that thought, use a colon.

6. Starter #4 In your first TAPP assignment, a number of you made your story more interesting by including dialogue. You let us hear the characters speak.
Including dialogue is a great technique in writing short stories, but if you don’t know how to apply the quotation marks or don’t know where to insert the other punctuation, you will confuse your readers. Here are some guidelines to help you:
Use quotation marks both before and after a direct quotation.
“How very strange this is!” cried Alice.
Use quotation marks before and after each part of an interrupted quotation.
“With those broken shutters,” said Carter, “this place looks deserted.”

7. The White Rabbit said, “Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I shall be too late!”
 Use a comma or commas to separate attribute phrases (he said or she said) from the quote itself.
If you start with the attribute, the comma hugs the attribute, outside the quote marks.
The White Rabbit said, “Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I shall be too late!”
If you end with the attribute, the comma goes inside the quote marks.
“It was much more pleasant at home,” she said.
Place ending punctuation—periods, question marks, exclamation points—inside the quotes when they are part of the quotation.
Sarah said, “I read a really good book last weekend.”
“What book did you read?” asked Lexi.
Place a question mark outside the quotation marks when it ends the sentence but is NOT part of the quotation.
Did you hear him shout “Carumba!”?