EN12

Nov. 2/10

25 minutes -- Reading

30 minutes --

Peer Editing -- Take a piece of paper from your binder and fold it in half.  

• Each side is for a different peer editor.

Make sure that you have sentence variety.

simple - one subj + one verb (predicate)

I love pizza.

compound  --- you have two simple sentences joined together with a conjunction (and, but, or, however, thus).

I love pizza and I hate spinach.

I love pizza, but I despise sardines.

complex  ---- going to want to use a (;)

I love pizza, however, I despise sardines unless, of course, they are the fish on the pizza pie at my best friend, Gertrude’s house; her mother is the best cook ever.

Semi-colon is really like a period that marries a comma.

Only use a semi-colon where you COULD HAVE used a period.

I love pizza; however, I hate sardines.  

I, however, love pizza.

I love pizza; I hate sardines.

I love pizza “it is the food of champions” and I will defend it to the death; it is my mana (45).

Embedding Quotations:

Keep to 5 words or fewer.

1. Make sure you are using the LITERARY PRESENT.
2. If what you are quoting from the text is in the past tense, you will need to use [  ] to change the tense.

e.g

changed >> change[s]

“Keep your sword for the dew will rusts them” (I, ii, 58).

 Othello is a just and honorable man who has no desire to fight with his new father in law; he tells Brabantio and his men to put away their swords “for the dew will rust them;” he means no harm (I, ii, 58).