Editing
Day One
What change should be made in the following line?
7: JOE CROWEEL, JR.: Yessir. My schoolteacher Miss Foster, is getting married to a fella over in Concord.
Insert a comma after schoolteacher
Day 2
Write a new sentence that combines these sentences in a clear and effective way.
(1) They turned left down a street called Marston.(2) Marston was a street that was lined with houses that her mother always said had been around for a long time.
Write a new sentence that combines these sentences in a clear and effective way.
They turned left down Marston, a street lined with houses that her mother always said had been around for a long time.
Day Ten
Read the excerpt from the passage: It was one of those clever winds that knows how to get into you, sneaking under your collar and up your sleeves.
In this sentence, the author personifies the wind to -
emphasize that the narrator couldn’t escape the wind
Day One
Read the passage from Day One.
What can the reader infer about Joe? Support your answer with evidence from the text.
The reader can infer that Joe is a student who also delivers newspapers.
• In line 5, Joe asks Dr. Gibbs, “Do you want your paper now?” This implies that Joe brought the newspaper with him and is asking Dr. Gibbs if he wants it.
• In line 7, Joe states, “My schoolteacher Miss Foster,” which suggests that Joe is a student.
Day Ten
What change should be made in this sentence?
(1) The trees and hedges lined the path at the start and keep the wind off, but after twenty minutes we’d left most of the trees behind and were up on the high moor.
Change keep to kept
Day 5
What change should be made in the following sentence:
In a bygone America, nieghbors relied on each other to watch the kids or borrow some sugar.
Change nieghbor to neighbor
Read Day Four. The author would like to add this sentence to the first paragraph.
Something―ketchup maybe, raspberry jelly? ―stained the corner of the top page.
Where is the best place to insert this sentence?
After sentence 3
Day Nine
Which word from the sentence below means “to come ahead or in front of”?
Because Henson usually preceded the dogsleds, it’s likely that he actually made it to the Pole before Peary, however unintentionally.
preceded
Day Four
Read the sentence excerpt: Wispy bangs had been tortured with repeated applications of curling iron and hairspray in clear violation of the Geneva Convention...
By making the allusion to the Geneva Convention, the author is suggesting that the woman’s hair is -
mistreated
Day Ten
The author has made a mistake in the following sentence. How can it be corrected?
Partly it was because what was left of the warmth from the bus ____of the wind.
had seeped away, but mainly it was because
Day Three
What change should be made in the sentence?
Parents sometimes feel that investing in a daughters education is a waste of money.
Change daughters to daughter’s
Day Six
Use paragraph 5 in the excerpt from Diamond Boy to answer the following question.
3. The word worthless is not the most appropriate word to use in the sentence. What word should replace worthless in this sentence: unprofitable, lacking, barren, futile
futile
Day Two
Read the sentence from the passage from Day Two:
An old neighborhood, she’d ramble whenever they drove through newer, seemingly nicer communities, where every house looked like the last house, like a choir of homes dressed in the same robes, turned the same way, singing the same melody in the same key, which makes for a boring, boring song.
What is the narrator suggesting by comparing the newer houses in sentence 3 to a choir?
lack originality and are uninteresting
Day Eight
Which word from the following sentence means “picture” or “scene”?
As I turned the corner into Mary’s yard, the pristine white trailer, set against the great, shimmering northern lake, formed a breathtaking tableau.
tableau
Day One
Read the passage from Day One. Based on this excerpt, what inference can the reader make about Miss Foster?
Her marriage is somehow connected to why she’ll no longer be teaching.
Day Seven
What change should be made in the sentence below:
(3) Florida Governor Jeb Bush feared that Katrina would cut right across the state, and on August 24, they declared a state of emergency.
Change they to he
Day Nine
Use the paragraph from Day Nine to answer the following question:
The author would like to add the following detail: He set off with 23 men, 133 dogs, and 19 sleds.
Where should the author insert this detail?
After sentence 2
Day Three
Read the passage from Day Three. How does the organizational pattern in paragraph 2 help support the author’s thesis?
By explaining why a son’s education is believed to be more important than a daughter’s education
Day Eight
Read paragraph 1 in Day Eight. What does white-knuckle mean?
Challenging
Day Four
Read the passage for Day Four. Which two quotes emphasize the woman's strictness?
Wispy bangs had been tortured with repeated applications of curling iron and hairspray...(paragraph 1)
...her pleated khaki pants had been ironed so viciously that the creases had turned white.(paragraph 1)
Day Eight
What change should be made in the sentence below:
(4) It was then that I had pushed my way down these same ruts in the snow-covered darkness of a frigid january night.
Change january to January
Day Nine
Use the paragraph from Day Nine to answer the following question:
Which of these sentences should be added to the beginning of the second paragraph (sentences 7-9) to help create a more effective transition?
A. Peary would soon forget about his journey to the North Pole.
B. When Peary returned to the United States, he had another reason to be furious.
C. Peary soon returned to the United States to his loyal friend, Frederick Cook.
D. Then Peary returned to the United States where he immediately found out good news.
B
Day Two
Read this quotation from the selection.
But Marston Street was lined with a little bit of everything, from small brick to fancy vinyl. From bay windows to Colonial style. From ramblers all on one level to three stories. A fence here and there, a gate there and here. Grass. Gravel. Blacktop. Pavement. Everything old enough to look lived in. To look tried on. Old enough to be warm and worn by a generation or two. Maybe even three.
How does the narrator express their feelings about the older houses on Marston Street?
She feels appreciation and respect for them.
Day Five
Read the passage from Day Five.
What is the author's main claim about Americans? Which sentence from the text supports your answer?
-Americans need to trust one another and come together for the good of all.
-Trust is key; a community can’t unite for the common good without believing in each other. (paragraph 2)