English 4 CP: Tuesday/Wednesday: 10/21,22/14

Standards
*LAFS.6.L.1.2: Editing conventions
*LAFS.1112.SL.1.2: Multiple sources of information

Essential Questions
*How do punctuation marks really work?
*How do you determine who was the real Shakespeare?

Agenda

1. Give all the rules for all the punctuation marks with an example for each rule. This is a cheat sheet that students will be allowed to use on open notes test, and will be a turn in assignment as well.
a. Period
b. Question mark
c. Exclamation mark
d. Comma
e. Colon
f. Semicolon
g. Quotation mark
h. Parentheses
i. Underlining/italics
j. Apostrophes
k. Dashes
l. Hyphens
m. Ellipses
n. Bracket/braces
2. Read, research, and explain who was the real writer of the Shakespearean plays. Some people believe it was Shakespeare. Some believe it was another nobleman, and Shakespeare just got the credit. All that is needed is the following.
a. Give 3 points from the Shakespeare was Shakespeare side with a website
b. Give 3 points from the someone else wrote the plays side with a website
c. This is NOT a long persuasive essay, just 6 points and 2 websites.