1. Thursday, January 22, 2015 Warm-up: ON your own paper, WRITE the brief summary below; then, LABEL one gerund, one participle, and one infinitive. In “How Video Games Are Getting In Your Head – And Wallet” by Steven Hann, the readers are informed about gaming industries and their tactics to keep people playing their games while spending their money at the same time. Although most games, which are now played online, are free to play, gaming industries track players’ every move and find ways to make them want to, or have to make in-game purchases. Since playing these games is something millions of people around the world do for hours on end, this tracking method is definitely helping many gaming industries rake in the dough, even though the games are “free” to play.

2. Thursday, January 22, 2015 Warm-up: In the brief summary below, insert the vocabulary word(s) where appropriate, and then LABEL one gerund, one participle, and one infinitive. In “How Video Games Are Getting In Your Head – And Wallet” by Steven Hann, the readers are informed about gaming industries and their tactics to keep people playing their games while spending their money at the same time. Although most games, which are now played online, are free to play, gaming industries track players’ every move and find ways to make them want to, or have to make in-game purchases. Since playing these games is something millions of people around the world do for hours on end, this tracking method is definitely helping many gaming industries rake in the dough, even though the games are “free” to play.

3. Punctuating Titles  Long works: underlined/italicized  Short works: in quotation marks  Long works: underlined/italicized  Short works: in quotation marks

4.  Movies -  Song Titles –  TV Shows -  TV Episodes –  Books -  Poems –  Essays –  Articles –  Short Stories –  Plays -  Magazines -  Newspapers -  Works of Art -  Speeches –  Movies -  Song Titles –  TV Shows -  TV Episodes –  Books -  Poems –  Essays –  Articles –  Short Stories –  Plays -  Magazines -  Newspapers -  Works of Art -  Speeches –

5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

6. Red“Red”

7. How I Met Your Mother

8. Ducky Tie “Ducky Tie”

9. Catching Fire

11. “The Road Not Taken”

12. “7 Horrifying Ailments Named after Literary Characters”

13. “35 Movies That Are Turning 10 Years Old in 2015”

14. “The Tell-Tale Heart”

15. Julius Caesar

16. Sports Illustrated

17. Temple Daily Telegram

18. The Mona Lisa

19. I Have a Dream

20. Independent Practice 1. Properly punctuate your favorite movie. 2. Properly punctuate your favorite song. 3. Properly punctuate your favorite book. 4. Properly punctuate your favorite tv show. 5. Properly punctuate your favorite text we have read this year. 1. Properly punctuate your favorite movie. 2. Properly punctuate your favorite song. 3. Properly punctuate your favorite book. 4. Properly punctuate your favorite tv show. 5. Properly punctuate your favorite text we have read this year.

21. Thursday, January 22, 2015 Warm-up: Read the quote; then, answer the question below. Scout says, “Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minutes Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.” What do you think Scout means by “the secret courts of men’s hearts”? Why do you think it is what you believe it to be?