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Writing Fiction Based on Real Science
Overview | What can you learn about science from fiction? What can you learn about the elements of fiction from stories about the work of real scientists? In this lesson, students learn about the genre of “lab lit,” then choose from a number of activities to explore an area of science through reading and writing lab lit. Materials | Computers with Internet access. Optional: projection equipment. Warm-Up | Read the following two excerpts aloud to students, or project them on a whiteboard, without revealing the sources:
Common Core Practice | Chickens, Clouds and the View Outside Your Window
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by Maria Popova “Here to teach you how to put the pen down right.”
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Manual of Style
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I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. - Kyle Wiens
by Kyle Wiens | 8:02 AM July 20, 2012 If you think an apostrophe was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, you will never work for me. If you think a semicolon is a regular colon with an identity crisis, I will not hire you. If you scatter commas into a sentence with all the discrimination of a shotgun, you might make it to the foyer before we politely escort you from the building. Some might call my approach to grammar extreme, but I prefer Lynne Truss's more cuddly phraseology: I am a grammar "stickler." And , like Truss — author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves — I have a "zero tolerance approach" to grammar mistakes that make people look stupid.
Colonoscopy: It’s Time to Check Your Colons
“It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon…” muses grammarian Lynne Truss in Eats, Shoots and Leaves , “not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.” Wherever you are, Ms. Truss, you may smile.
Shady Characters » Maximal meaning in minimal space: the history of punctuation
Punctuation, as any dictionary will tell you, consists of the marks that dance around the letters of a text to mark clauses, sentences and inflection. [1] What, though, is minimal punctuation? Is it in the range of marks that a writer uses? Ernest Hemingway wrote famously minimalist prose, for instance, where marks such as the semicolon (;), the ellipsis (…) and the dash (–) are notable mostly for their absence.English Teacher Rethinks Grammar Lessons -- With an App
In the last eight years, high school English teacher Jeff Scheur has graded 15,000 papers. He estimates that each time he collects a new round of essays from his 150 students, it takes him about 40 hours to read them, fill out grading rubrics and write personalized feedback. Meanwhile, he questions the impact of his efforts. "Students get a paper back, and you want to follow up and track if they're making progress," he says. "But I realized there wasn't a good feedback loop to make that happen."Sentence Structure
Printer Fabulous! Recognize a subject of a sentence when you see one. In a sentence , every verb must have a subject. If the verb expresses action—like sneeze , jump , bark , or study —the subject is who or what does the verb.
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