1. Magazine title
TV show
Song
Essay
Chapter
Play
Book title
TV show episodes
Movie
Long musical work (Broadway play)

2. Underlining / Italicizing Books CD’s Movies
Plays / long musical works / paintings
T.V. series
Periodicals
Spacecraft* / aircraft*

3. Quotation Marks Short stories Poems Songs Episodes Essays Articles
Chapters

4. Use italics for the names of ships, trains, aircraft, and spacecraft
Example? Titanic, Apollo 13
The Hunger Games is a fantastic book.
…what’s wrong with the sentence?

5. The Beautiful Dance is a piece in the play The Invincibles.
Chapter 8: Cells is more difficult than Chapter 9: Ecosystems.
The Road Not Taken and The Raven are well-known poems.
Shakespeare’s plays include Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and The Tempest.
Did The Hunger Games or The Hobbit make more money?
Did you prefer The Amigo Brothers or Rikki Tikki Tavi?

6. 7. Did you ever see the episode of Mike and Molly entitled The Proposal? 8. Dad reads The Wall Street Journal every morning. 9. The painting Starry Night is beautiful. 10. Wrecking Ball and We Can’t Stop are horribly overplayed. 11. What was the theme of The Last Dog? 12. The Daily News Journal’s article A Hero Among Us was voted best of the month.

7. …but do you GET IT? Which sentence uses italics correctly?
The word capital has many meanings.
The Titanic is one of the most well-known ships that tragically sunk.
All her sweaters are monogrammed with JWM.
I attended the Learning and Technology meeting at school last night.

8. We enjoyed Our Sweetest Dreams, the film we watched before the tour.
What is the correct way to write the title of the film?
F. “Our Sweetest Dreams”
G. “Our Sweetest Dreams”
H. Our Sweetest Dreams
J. Our Sweetest Dreams

9. Almost done!
3. Create a sentence that correctly uses something that needs to be underlined.
4. Create a sentence that correctly uses something that needs to be put in quotation marks.