Writing theory
What does every sentence need at the end?
FULL STOP.
Correct all mistakes: Lyndale secondary college is a big School in melbourne
Lyndale Secondary College is a big school in Melbourne.
What does the T stand for in TEEL?
Topic Sentence
True or False?
The full stop was originally painted in red ink by medieval monks to symbolize a "stop drop of blood," which is why teachers traditionally use red pens to grade papers today.
Monks did use red ink (a process called rubrication), but they used it for titles, initial capital letters, and religious feast days to make them stand out on the page. The full stop was just black ink, and teachers use red pens simply because it contrasts sharply against a student's blue or black writing.
What is your teacher's name?
Mr Stefan
Name 3 reasons we use capital letters?
at the beginning of every sentence, proper nouns (cities, months, days) and names
Yesterday, I played football, ate pepperoni pizza with friends in the park, watched TV and went to bed early because I was exhausted.
What do the two Es In TEEL stand for?
Example/ Evidence AND Explanation
True or False: Capital letters were invented because early Roman stonecarvers found it physically impossible to carve curved lowercase letters into marble.
FALSE!
While Romans loved blocky capital letters for monuments, lowercase letters didn't exist at all yet! For centuries, people wrote entirely in what we now call uppercase. Lowercase letters were actually developed by monks in the Middle Ages because writing smaller, rounded letters was much faster and saved expensive parchment paper.
How old is your teacher?
36
What is an adjective? Give an example.
A word that describes a noun. For example: The big house.
Correct all mistakes: my sister lives in paris France
My sister lives in Paris, France.
How many sentences should you write in your persuasive text for the next e-write task?
at least 20
True or False: In 1962, NASA lost a spacecraft worth over $80 million (worth over $700 million today) because a programmer missed a single full stop in a line of guidance code.
The Mariner 1 space probe was destroyed just minutes after launch. A data editing error—frequently reported as a missing hyphen or a misplaced full stop in the mathematical formulas—caused the guidance computer to wildly overcorrect for minor flight changes, forcing safety officers to blow up the rocket.
What is your teacher's dog's name?
Toby
Name 3 reasons we use commas in a sentence.
to list things, to separate ideas and to pause
Which of these words are proper nouns (that needs to be capitalised): professor, church, australia, christmas, mount everest, birthday
Australia, Christmas, Mount Everest
What are some excellent ways of starting an Example/ evidence sentence?
For example,...
As demonstrated by...
According to...
As results show...
True or False?
In 2018, a group of truck drivers won a massive court case worth $5 million all because of a single missing comma in a legal document.
TRUE!
A dairy company in Maine lost the lawsuit because their overtime laws lacked an Oxford comma in a list of duties. Without the comma, the law legally lumped two activities together ("packing for shipment or distribution"), exempting the drivers from overtime they should have received.
What does your teacher do every morning?
I bought my new phone at an Apple store.
What should a conclusion do?
True or False?
William Shakespeare invented the exclamation mark because he was tired of writing "Imagine I am yelling this" in the stage directions of his scripts.
FALSE!
The exclamation mark was around long before Shakespeare, appearing in the 14th century. It was originally called the punctum admirativus (point of admiration). It actually evolved from the Latin word for joy, Io, written with the 'I' on top of the 'o'. Over time, the 'I' stretched into a line and the 'o' shrank into a dot!
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