1. Thursday, August 20th and Friday, August 21st American Literature
Standard 2 & 3
Grammar: Punctuation
Review Punctuation checklist
Complete Set 2 for practice
Native American Creation Myths Notes and Video: Take Notes during video. Label your notes: “Native American Myths Video”
Read and annotate “How do you Sell the Air”
Watch John Green’s Crash Course #3 until 7:55min. Take notes while watching. Label Your Notes: “John Green’s Crash Course #2”
Narrative notes:
John Smith and excerpt from “The General History of Virginia”
Read, annotate, and answer the Guide for Responding questions on a separate piece of paper.

2. Grammar Answers: SET 2
9. d. There should be quotation marks before the word Coach to set off the dialogue. 10. d. Commas set off nonrestrictive appositives, phrases that say the same thing as the previous phrase, in different words. (A comma should be placed after Patricia.) 11. a. A colon can go before a list. (Place a colon after the word flowers.) 12. a. A semicolon can be used to separate two main clauses, which could each stand alone as complete sentences. 13. c. A dash can be used to set off a parenthetical element, for emphasis. (Place another dash after the word senior.) 14. a. The possessive Kim’s requires an apostrophe. 15. e. This sentence is punctuated correctly. 16. b. Commas set off parenthetical elements and always go inside the quotation marks in a line of dialogue. (Place a comma after the word remember.) 17. d. Commas set off a word or phrase that describes the subject but does not alter the meaning of the entire sentence. (Place a comma after the word Larkin.) 18. c. A semicolon can be used to separate two main clauses, which could each stand alone as complete sentences. (Place the semicolon after the word treadmill.)

3. Native American Myths Native American Literature: Myth:
Dates are unclear
Mostly myths
Oral tradition of story telling
Focus is on nature and creation
Animals and nature revered
Myth:
Story about superhuman beings of an earlier age.
Preliterate society's account of how natural phenomena, social customs, etc. came into existence
While we watch the video, take notes on the three creation myths. A summary is fine.
Iroquois Tribe
Seminole Tribe
Cherokee Tribe

4. Narrative Notes
Narrative accounts: Tell the story of real-life events.
Historical narratives: Accounts that record significant historical events. Firsthand accounts, which can be subjective because of the writer’s personal involvement.