1. Run on sentences and comma splices
Run on sentence=two or more independent clauses are joined without a coordinating conjunction and without punctuation.
Example: Janet left for work early she arrived late.

2. Comma splice
Two or more clauses joined with a comma but without a coordinating conjunction.
Example: Janet left for work, she arrived late.

3. Strategies for revision
Use a period.
Janet left for work. She arrived late.
Use a semicolon.
Janet left for work; she arrived late.
Use a comma plus a FANBOYS.
Janet left for work, but she arrived late.
Use a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb (transition word)
Janet arrived late; however, she arrived late.

4. Change one of the clauses to a subordinating clause by means of a subordinating conjunction.
Although Janet left for work early, she arrived late.

5. Let’s practice
The chickens on campus play a famous role for our school, they make us unique.
What if the chickens laid eggs and hid them somewhere they would get left behind.
The chickens bring laughter to our students, without them we’d be an ordinary school.

6. I remember, after my first class I was leading out to the bookstore unfortunately, I stepped on the chickens’ dump
Right now there many chickens living freely on campus but many professors don’t want chickens.
Chickens should not be allowed to live freely on the campus because they cause stinky odors make noise and no one wants to clean after.

7. Roller skating is fun. There are lots of things you can do at the skating ring. I like getting at the skating ring early so that I can have a good place for my shoes. Also I like to get on the floor before everyone else because the floor is always so shine and clean. Skating is my favorite thing to do on Friday night.

8. Roller skating, while it’s fun, comes with goodness for the body
Roller skating, while it’s fun, comes with goodness for the body. To illustrate, when a person skates for an extended period of time, the heart rate increases. This increase in heart rate circulates blood more efficiently through the body as well as builds strength within the heart itself. Likewise, roller skating builds strength in leg muscles. As we skate, the muscles are constantly being used; this movement keeps our legs in shape. This is important because we use our leg muscles to function in daily activities. Are you ready to get your skate on?

9. Langston Hughes
One of several African Americans whose artistic ability surfaced during the Harlem Renaissance.

10. Vocabulary
Dialect=a particular for of language that is specific to a group of people or region.
yes’m and no’m

11. Word web
As I walked through the woods, the frail deer cried out for help.
Before we left for church, mom looked us over to see if we looked presentable.
Mom had a look of mistrust on her face as she asked us about the second broken vase.
The town we stopped in was completely barren, it could pass for a ghost town.

12. Why is self respect and empathy important?
Self respect=pride and dignity within yourself
Empathy=being able to understand other’s feelings.

13. Inference chart The boy says he is sorry (line 26)
“I were young once and I wanted things I could not get.” (line 78)
Roger offers to go to the store for Mrs. Jones. Why?
What else might Roger have wanted to say?

14. Text questions…
Look at page 69. Analyze the photo and then discuss with your partner what might you INFER about her personality.
Read page 68 independently.
Group 1: Do you think you would have reacted differently than Mrs. Jones?
Group 2: What qualities does Mrs. Jones posses? (a trait)
Why doesn’t Mrs. Jones want the boy to run away?

15. Read page 70
Independent inference.
Look back over lines Underline words that tell what Mrs. Jones is going to do.
Group 4: What does these words reveal about Mrs. Jones?
Turn and talk: Look at lines 45 and 46. What would happen to Jone’s character if the author used “pull” instead of “drag?”

16. Read page 71
Infererence, line 78
Group 5: Look at line 84. Why didn’t she say that?
Turn and talk: Look back over lines What do we learn about where she lives?
Inference (line 97-98)

17. Read page 72
Inference line 121
Group 6: Why does the author write that Roger never saw Mrs. Jones again in the last line?

18. Why is self respect and empathy important?
Self respect=pride and dignity within yourself
Empathy=being able to understand other’s feelings.