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CONVENTIONS Using correct grammar, spelling and punctuation can save your life or at least keep you from looking like a dummy!

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1 CONVENTIONS Using correct grammar, spelling and punctuation can save your life or at least keep you from looking like a dummy!

2 USE PUNCTUATION TO CORRECT THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES.  Lets eat grandpa  The koala bear eats shoots and leaves  A woman without her man is nothing Now, punctuate them to mean something different. Do not change the order of the words.

3 MEME MANIA

4 THE WRONG WORD AT THE WRONG TIME…

5 APOSTROPHES ARE NOT DECORATIONS

6 COMMAS CHANGE EVERYTHING

7 MISSPELLED WORDS…OOPS!

8 GET OUT YOUR 6 TRAITS RUBRIC!  Grade the essay examples according to the rubric.

9 MAKE A MEME!  In your groups, create a meme or a comic like the ones you saw today.  It can be funny, but must also be appropriate!  It must be about grammar, spelling or punctuation.

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