Bear words
What are most bear words?
Homophones
What books dd we read as a class
Night, Into the Wild, High Tide in Tucson, the Crucible
What are the FANBOYS
For, and, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
Which brush stroke uses a single dash?
Hyphen or hyphinated modifiers.
When should you write?
EVERYDAY!!!!!
It's
a
numbers
When was the Transcendentalist movement?
1830s-1850s
What do dependent clauses start with?
aaawwubbis or subordinating conjunctions
When should you use double dashes
To set off a side note or a rabbit hole.
When should you use a deliberate fragment?
To emphasize the importance of something
less
fewer
than
Predestination is a Puritan idea that God has chosen who goes to heaven or hell before they are born.
Is this sentence wordy, redundant, or clear?
There were many people that were crowding around the new product.
wordy
Is this sentence an example of a comma splice?
Although I eat a lot of food, even buying seconds, I do a lot of sports, I easily burn off calories.
Yes
What is concrete imagery
Concrete imagery is when the writer uses the five senses to give vivid descriptions of a scene/object.
When the principal affected/effected a new policy, the students where/were quick to give him compliments/complements.
effected
were
compliments
When were the Salem Witch Trials?
1692
What is the difference between MLA and SAT rules?
MLA can use they for a singular subject while SAT is limited to he/she/it
Insert punctuation into this sentence:
When the cat ran down the hall at 210 Main Street Chicago Illionois it rumbled throughout the city and it caused a panic
When the cat ran down the hall at 210 Main Street, Chicago, Illinois, it rumbled throughout the city, and it caused a panic.
When is it okay to use passive voice?
When there is an emphasis on the action rather than the subject.
Everyday/Every day, I put on my everyday/every day pear/pair of shoes. than/then, I lead/led my group of people past/passed the school, farther/further from my house.
Every day, everyday, pair, then, lead, past, farther
Who were the two main transcendentalists, and what did they write?
Emerson and Thoreau
Walden, Self-Reliance, etc.
What comma rule is this?
How much did you eat today, Pibble?
What are acceptable replacements for a semicolon?
period, emdash, colon, ,fanboy
What are the 6+1 traits of good writing?
ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, presentations