1. Warm Up: “Interrupter” Comma Review
RULE #2: Use two commas to set off an interrupter or a phrase that interrupts the main sentence.
EXAMPLES: Please take those smelly socks to the garage, Kris, and put them in the washing machine.
My essay, to be perfectly honest, flew out of the bus window while I was riding to school.
What you just ate, if you must know, was squid eyeball stew.
Notes
✓ interrupters always need 2 commas
✓ pull out the interrupter and sentence makes sense
✓ extra information
✓ however
✓ speaking to people

2. Warm Up: Copy the following sentences & add in the interrupter commas
Rina’s father a bus driver does shift work.
An elephant that is raised in a zoo cannot survive in the wild.
The fall of the Berlin Wall according to many political analysts marked the end of the cold war.
The Berlin Wall which separated East and West Berlin was a symbol of the relationship between the western and the Soviet block countries.
The process of pasteurization which was invented by Louis Pasteur has saved millions of lives.

3. The Danger of a Single Story click here to watch video

4. Writer’s Notebook:
Do you agree with Chimamanda Adichie that having “one story” is dangerous? Why or why not? Give reasons and examples to support your claim (answer).