Transcript DLP Week Eight - Belle Vernon Area School District

D.L.P. – Week Eight
G R A DE SE VE N
Day One – Skills
• Punctuation – Titles
When referring to a title when writing, it must be punctuated properly. Shorter works are placed in
quotations. Shorter works include poems, short stories, songs, a chapter in a longer book, or a
newspaper or magazine article. Longer works include books, names of magazines or newspapers,
and movies.
• Punctuation – Comma – Address
• Parts of an address are separated by commas. The city and state or country always has a comma
between them. (Belle Vernon, PA) When writing an entire address in a sentence, separate the
lines of the address with a comma. The lines of an address are the street address and the city,
state, and zip code. (I live at 2 Maple Street, Belle Vernon, PA 15012) If both a city and
state/country are in the sentence, they must also be separated from the rest of the sentence
with a comma. (Belle Vernon, PA, is where I live.)
• Punctuation – Colon –Items in a Series
When a list of items is included in a sentence so that the reader is warned that a list is coming, a
colon must precede the list. However, if the reader gets no forewarning that a list will be coming,
no colon is needed.
D AY O NE – SE NT E NCE O NE
The setting for A Christmas
Carol is London England.
The setting for A Christmas
Carol is London, England.
D AY O NE – SE NT E NCE T WO
The play has the following main
characters Jacob Marley, Ebenezer
Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, and the
ghosts.
The play has the following main
characters: Jacob Marley,
Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit,
and the ghosts.
Day Two – Skills
• Punctuation – Comma – Compound Sentence
When two independent clauses are combined with a conjunction to
form a compound sentence, a comma must be placed before the
conjunction.
• Agreement – Distributive Pronouns
The distributive pronouns (each, either, neither) are always singular, so
the verb that accompanies them must also be singular. Many singular
action verbs end in s. (Each of the pages is… Neither of the boys
goes…) The antecedent of the definite pronouns must also be singular.
(Each of the boys gave his best performance.)
D AY T WO – SE NT E NCE O NE
Juan and Maria disliked Scrooge in
the beginning of the story but they
liked him better toward the end.
Juan and Maria disliked Scrooge in
the beginning of the story, but
they liked him better toward the
end.
D AY T WO – SE NT E NCE T WO
Each of the three ghosts had
their part to play.
Each of the three ghosts had his
part to play.
Day Three– Skills
• Pronoun Usage – Antecedent Reference
Pronouns take the place of nouns. An antecedent is the noun that the pronoun takes the
place of. Sometimes the noun is not stated directly in the sentence, but the reference is
understood. (She stood there teaching the class. Although the teacher is not in the
sentence, the context makes that clear.) Sometimes, there is more than one noun in the
sentence, so it is important to be clear which noun is the antecedent. (The boys both
enjoyed the game, but he enjoyed it more. Who is he? This is not a clear reference to an
antecedent.)
• Punctuation – Comma – Appositives
If an appositive is a single word, it is the writer’s choice to place comas around it or not,
but a multiple word appositive must be set off from the sentence with commas.
D AY T HR E E – SE NT E NCE O NE
In the movie version, they had
some great scenes.
The movie version had some
great scenes.
D AY T HR E E – SE NT E NCE T WO
Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas
Carol one of the most famous
stories ever written in the 1840’s.
Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas
Carol,one of the most famous
stories ever written, in the 1840’s.
Day Four– Skills
• Punctuation – Apostrophes in Possession
An apostrophe is used to show possession or ownership. If the word showing ownership is
singular, then the apostrophe is placed before the s. (boy’s) If the word is plural and ends in an s,
then the apostrophe is placed after the s. (groups’) However, if the plural word does not end in
an s, then the apostrophe is placed before the s. (children’s)
Joint possession means more than one person owns something. If one thing is owned by more
than one person, the apostrophe and s appear only on the final person in the group. (Bob and
Mark’s car)
• Capitalization – Proper Nouns – Things
Names of specific things must be capitalized. They may be the names of products (Kleenex),
holidays (Fourth of July), or companies (Nike). When the noun is more than one word, follow the
same rules for capitalizing words in a title.
• Punctuation – Comma – Participial Phrases
When a participial phrase comes at the beginning of a sentence, set it off with a comma.
Remember, a participle looks like a verb so it often ends in “ing” or “ed.” Participles work like
adjectives, so they are not needed in the sentence and can be removed, but they do add good
description. (Excited by the news, Elizabeth jumped up and down.)
D AY FO UR – SE NT E NCE O NE
Scrooges selfishness made him
forget the meaning of
christmas.
Scrooge’s selfishness made him
forget the meaning of
Christmas.
D AY FO UR – SE NT E NCE T WO
Seeing that his life is filled with
greed Scrooge changes his
ways.
Seeing that his life is filled with
greed, Scrooge changes his
ways.
Day Five– Skills
• Punctuation – Comma – Items in a Series
If more than two items are used in a list, this is called items in a series. Each item in the list must
be separated by a comma including a comma before the conjunction.
• Rambling Sentences
A rambling or stringy sentence adds one idea after the other. Ideally, a sentence should not
have more than one and in it. Find a better connector of ideas or break the rambling sentence
into several sentences.
• Parallelism
When a series of items appear in a sentence, they should all be the same part of speech. If two
are nouns, then the third should be a noun. If there are two prepositional phrases, then the
third should be a prepositional phrase. (people, places, and things… tall trees, babbling brooks,
and bright sunshine)
D AY FIVE – SE NT E NCE O NE
The ghosts showed Scrooge his
past present and future.
The ghosts showed Scrooge his
past, present, and future.
D AY FIVE – SE NT E NCE T WO
This play had good characters,
and it had a good plot, and also
the ending was good.
This play had good characters, a
well-thought plot, and an
interesting ending.