1. Day 1
The west was full of promise for women.
“I felt a secret joy” an Oregon pioneer woman declared “In being able to have the power to get things going.”
Correct capitalization in a split quotation
Capitalization of geographic area
Use of commas with a split quotation

2. Day 1
The West was full of promise for women.
Capitalization of geographic area
“I felt a secret joy,” an Oregon pioneer woman declared, “in being able to have the power to get things going.”
Use of commas with a split quotation
Correct capitalization in a split quotation

3. Inclusion of closing quotation marks
Day 2
Many women yearned to throw off the convention of society and simply be theirselves.
A pioneer woman wrote, “I enjoyed riding horses wearing divided skirts.
Inclusion of closing quotation marks
Correction of misplaced phrase
Use of correct form of reflexive pronoun

4. Day 2
Many women yearned to throw off the convention of society and simply be themselves.
Use of correct form of reflexive pronoun
A pioneer woman wrote, “Wearing divided skirts, I enjoyed riding horses.”
Correction of misplaced phrase
Inclusion of closing quotation marks

5. Use of adverb to modify an adjective Formation of plural possessive
Day 3
The pioneers hardships were real awesome dust storms, blizzards, drought, illness, and dawn-to-dark labor in home and field.
For women there was the added responsibilities of bearing and raising children.
Subject and verb agreement
Use of adverb to modify an adjective
Formation of plural possessive
Use of colon before a list

6. Day 3
The pioneers’ hardships were really awesome: dust storms, blizzards, drought, illness, and dawn-to-dark labor in home and field.
Formation of plural possessive
Use of adverb to modify an adjective
Use of colon before a list
For women there were the added responsibilities of bearing and raising children.
Subject and verb agreement

7. Use of comma to set off parenthetical phrase
Day 4
By the way pioneer women begun setting up schools, libraries, and discussion groups as soon as they arrived.
Correct past form of irregular verb
Use of comma to set off parenthetical phrase
In Nebraska, a schoolmaam had to show good moral character before she could receive her teaching certificate.
Use of apostrophe to show omitted letters

8. Day 4
By the way, pioneer women began setting up schools, libraries, and discussion groups as soon as they arrived.
Use of comma to set off parenthetical phrase
Correct past form of irregular verb
In Nebraska, a schoolma’am had to show good moral character before she could receive her teaching certificate.
Use apostrophe to show omitted letters

9. Elimination of colon between verb and complement
Day 5
Pioneer women knew there were many opportunities in a variety of exciting fields. Because of the amazing growth of frontier towns.
Few women were idol many became : shopkeepers, barbers, photographers, pawnbrokers, and teachers.
Elimination of colon between verb and complement
Use of semicolon to correct run-on sentence
Correct spelling of homophones
Correction of sentence fragment

10. Correction of sentence fragment :
Day 5
Because of the amazing growth of frontier towns, pioneer women knew there were many opportunities in a variety of exciting fields.
Correction of sentence fragment :
Few women were idle; many became shopkeepers, barbers, photographers, pawnbrokers, and teachers.
Correct spelling of homophones
Use of semicolon to correct run-on sentence
Elimination of colon between verb and complement
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