COMMON ERRORS IN QUOTE ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT What are

COMMON ERRORS IN QUOTE ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT

What are the problems here? In the book “Night, ” Elie Wiesel was in Buna concentration camp on Yom kippur, the most holy holiday of the jewish year.

Remember the Rules: • Titles of big things like books or Newspapers should be underlined or typed using italics. • Titles of little things like an article, poem, or a section of larger document should be written “in quotes. ” • Proper nouns get capitalized. This includes religions and names of holidays.

Clarity and Crispness • What does that mean? • Think of a potato vs. an apple. • It’s hard to get your writing to be crisp, but it’s something you should work on.

Here are some examples that lack crispness… • His father telling him to eat caused him to feel bad inside and feeling the way he did. • Him feeling bad cause him to feel sick and a void opening. • Elie was part of the holocaust in one of their camps in Auschwitz.

Other areas to review… • Let’s get this apostrophe thing down. What is the difference between the following: 1. Nazi 2. Nazis 3. Nazi’s 4. Nazis’

What’s the difference between “explain” and “analyze” • Explain: • Analyze:

Loose pronouns • In the book Night, Elie says, “I hated that bell, ” after they were separated. • Elie and his father had a difficult choice to make and he wasn’t sure what to do.

And now, some beautiful crisp writing from your classmates: • If the only one you can trust is the enemy, how can you call that trust? • He no longer trusted God, for God committed crimes of omission as the Jews were sent to camps and to their deaths