2. Milk Jugs
Grammar
for
Biographies
Editing
Checklist
TODAY’S OBJECTIVES
3. GRAMMAR FOR BIOGRAPHIES
Read the sentences on the board…
Decide on the mistakes…
Then, in your notebooks…
re-write the sentences correctly.
4. GRAMMAR FOR BIOGRAPHIES
1. Mother Theresa have the Nobel Peace Prize.
2. Mother Theresa borned on Agust 26 of 1910.
3. She was of Albania.
4. nelson mandela was born in africa.
5. GRAMMAR FOR BIOGRAPHIES
5. He was the first president black and was a politic person.
6. He travel to alot of countrys and visit many persons.
7. He die on 2013.
8. MLK’s motivation for his acts is that he didn’t like to see
black people suffering.
9. Mother Theresa recived numerous honors.
10. Mother Theresa was born in August 26, 1920 on Skopje.
11. She leaved her home when she was 18.
6. GRAMMAR FOR BIOGRAPHIES
12. She got 5 brothers and his sister was older.
13. He all the time was thinking about help anyone around his life.
14. He always fighted to have the peace, thats why he received the
Nobel Peace Prize
15. I chose Gandhi because he was an interest man.
16. She show him to respect everybody.
17. He teached other people about his methods for not to use
violence.
7. OVERALL…WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
• Adjective comes before the noun.
• Use of proper pronouns.
• Verbs should be in past tense.
• A person is born on a date, in a country and in a month or year…also, a
person is from a place.
• Which is spelled WHICH.
• Proper names of people and places are capitalized as are days of the
week and months of the year.
• Remember to include an apostrophe (‘) in contractions.
• If a noun ending in “y” is plural…then the noun’s ending becomes “ies”
• Dates are written as month date, year. Ex. October 27, 2014
• If stating something said exactly…use quotes! “Quote.”
8. WHAT DO GREAT WRITERS
DO BEFORE PUBLISHING?
• They read their drafts…looking
for the Conventions of Standard
English
• Conventions include:
• Capitalization, spelling,
punctuation;
• Noun, pronoun and verb use;
• Paragraphing
Read
Re-
Read
Read
Again
9. Today, we will
use this
checklist to
help us read
our drafts
like editors to
make sure our
drafts are
free of
errors so
that our
readers do
not get
confused,
causing them
to not want to
read further.
10. Let’s begin by
just reading
the first 2
paragraphs
and only
check for
capitalization
…Do all
sentences
begin with a
capital
letter? Do all
proper nouns
begin with a
capital
letter?
11. Let’s read the
next 3
paragraphs
and do the
same
thing…just
check for
capitalization
and ask
yourself the
same
questions.
12. Now, let’s
move on to
Spelling.
Spend a few
minutes just
reading the
first 2
paragraphs
and check for
Spelling…Are
all words
spelled
correctly? If
not
sure…what
should you
do?
13. Tonight, your
homework is
to complete
the edits of
this paper to
hand in to me
tomorrow.
Remember,
when writing,
remember to
skip lines!!
This checklist
will be on the
blog inside
this
presentation…
14. As will the
attached
Commonly
Misspelled
Words…see a
lot is there as
is
receive…both
of which were
in our
examples.
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