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Beginning of the Year Proofreading Marks

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Proofreading/Editing Marks I have a better version of this in docs  Mrs. P's English Records AWK--  awk ward wording CM-- C om M entary CD--  C oncrete  D etail TS---  T opic  S entence Thesis Intro WW-  W rong  W ord, get your thesaurus  PRONTO !   Thesaurus.com Background Paragraph needed Conc-- Conclusion Global lessons-- where could these ideas go in the future? Slang-- your wording is too casual-- this includes I's, "you's, "a lot", very, greatly, etc. DS-- double-space Hanging Indent F-- Fragment   Fragments  are incomplete sentences. Usually,  fragments  are pieces of sentences that have become disconnected from the main clause. One of the easiest ways to correct them is to remove the period between the  fragment  and the main clause.  A clause is a statement or a question that generally consists of a subject and a verb phrase and constitutes a complete thought. Sentences can consist of a singleclause, but they often include two

SPRP header

Should look like this: Reyes, Kimberley Mrs. McLean (Advisory Tchr) Senior Project Research Paper 4 Dec 2017 Make sure they push their Page number down a couple of lines so it doesn't get cut off.  Also, make sure they change the font to TNR Teach them how to fix their page margins and make the bottom one .6"

Detention Email

STUDENTS OF MRS. P'S ENGLISH 4 CLASSES: You are receiving this email because  your annot bib is not  progressing a quickly as it needs to.  I understand that you may  have been sick or otherwise; still, I want to check in  with you for  a 1/2-hour to get you up to speed. Please report to H-22 @  Friday  lunch  12:50 pm so I can give  you some one-to-one  tutoring time on this assignment. Bring a fully-charged laptop.  You may bring lunch, drinks, and  music.  I will keep you all lunchtime. As you know , if you don't show up to detention, you'll have to stay after school with a phone call home.  If that doesn't work, I will assign Friday school. Mrs. P

Icebreakers

Personality Bingo Laffy Taffy/Nerds/Gobstoppers/starbursts  game

Things to Review

Turn It In protocol Behavior Expectations for SVHS     includes Tardy/Absence Policy

Student Table Materials Prep

Poker Chips #'d and in the gold box Phone organizer dusted out Red sign up over the boxes Buy and label colored notebooks.     a.  Print out and cut out Google User/ID cards     b.  Staple in Google User/ID cards to each notebook. Green craft boxes, which each serve approx 3 students Each should have:    a.  2 pairs adult scissors    b.  22 colored pencils of 2 each: purple, green, red, blue, yellow, brown, etc.    c.  Highlighters, at least 3 any colors    d.  2 "baby" rulers    e.  3 gluesticks DO NOT include Sharpies, sharpeners, erasers or white out.  They just get stolen. Sharpies are banned from school anyway because of graffiti.