Week 2 Using Quotations Week 2 Day 1

Week 2 Using Quotations

Week 2 – Day 1 Using Quotations Write this down! Quotation Rule #1 – You can introduce the quote with a dialogue tag (like “he said” or “she wrote”). Put a comma between the dialogue tag and the quote, and capitalize the first word of the quote. In each example sentence, correct one capitalization or punctuation error (you do not need to write the entire sentence, just the correction): 1. A chess player once said “Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to- last mistake. ” 2. The famous painter Pablo Picasso said, “give me a museum and I’ll fill it. ” 3. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have” said Thomas Jefferson. 4. His jailer said “All right, get in there with the others. ” 5. “My feets is tired, but my soul is rested” Mother Pollard announced. 6. He walked into the county courthouse, entered the sheriff’s office, and asked, “are you looking for me? Well, here I am. ” 7. In her diary, Anne Frank wrote “Things are just as bad as yourself care to make them. ” 8. “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything” said Malcolm X. Wordplay – Just for fun!

Baroscope baro SCOPE (bar’ o skope) n. Instrument showing changes in atmospheric pressure Autoscope auto SCOPE (au’ to skope) n. An instrument for seeing one’s own organs Bioscope bio SCOPE (bio’ o skope) n. Instrument for measuring time Endoscope : Endo SCOPE (en’ do skope) n. Instrument for showing the internal organs Gyroscope : gyro SCOPE (en’ do bio SCOPE (bio’ o skope) n. Instrument for measuring time Helioscope : helio SCOPE (hee’ li o skope) n. Instrument to view the sun without eye injury Horoscope : horo SCOPE (hor’ o skope) n. A chart used by an astrologer to tell fortunes Hydroscope : hydro SCOPE (hie’ dro skope) n. A device to view the depths of the sea 10. Kaleidoscope : kaleido SCOPE (ka lide’ o skope) n.

Week 2 – Day 2 Using Quotations Quotation Rule #2: If you introduce a quote with a complete independent clause (like “My mom told me something very important”), put a colon between the quote and the independent clause and capitalize the first word of the quote. In each example sentence, correct one capitalization or punctuation error (you do not need to write the entire sentence, just the correction): 1. Blake rose from the driver’s seat and called out again: “y’all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats. ” 2. The leaflet urged the black community to support the boycott, “Don’t ride the buses to work, to town, to school, or anywhere on Monday. ” 3. Walt Disney enjoyed a challenge, “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. ” 4. Napoleon Bonaparte made a wise statement: “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ” 5. Guitarist Jimi Hendrix had a deep thought “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ” 6. Martin Luther King taught an important truth “The time is always right to do what is right. ” Wordplay – Just for fun! The vowel combination “ew” almost always makes the sound found in “chew. ” List as many words as you can that contain “ew. ”

Week 2 – Day 1 Using Quotations Quotation Rule #2: If you introduce a quote with a complete independent clause (like “My mom told me something very important”), put a colon between the quote and the independent clause and capitalize the first word of the quote. In each example sentence, correct one capitalization or punctuation error (you do not need to write the entire sentence, just the correction): 1. Blake rose from the driver’s seat and called out again: “y’all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats. ” 2. The leaflet urged the black community to support the boycott, “Don’t ride the buses to work, to town, to school, or anywhere on Monday. ” 3. Walt Disney enjoyed a challenge, “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. ” 4. Napoleon Bonaparte made a wise statement: “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ” End 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 5. Guitarist Jimi Hendrix had a deep thought “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ” 6. Martin Luther King taught an important truth “The time is always right to do what is right. ” Wordplay – Just for fun! The vowel combination “ew” almost always makes the sound found in “chew. ” List as many words as you can that contain “ew. ”

Week 2 – Day 3 Using Quotations Write this down: Quotation Rule #3 When you split a quote in half and put a dialogue tag in between, use commas before and after the dialogue tag, but don’t capitalize the first word in the second half of the quote. In each example sentence, correct one capitalization or punctuation error (you do not need to write the entire sentence, just the correction): 1. “Wise men make proverbs” Samuel Palmer said, “but fools repeat them. ” 2. “Reality is merely an illusion, ” Einstein said, “Albeit a very persistent one. ” 3. “Forgive your enemies, ” President Kennedy said “but never forget their names. ” 4. “Wars, ” Martin Luther King said. “Are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ” Wordplay – Just for fun! DESCRAMBLER: Try to sort out the five scrambled words below: DSIE UNERD NPRSEO BGOILNS CINCKHEG

Week 2 – Day 3 Using Quotations Write this down: Quotation Rule #3 When you split a quote in half and put a dialogue tag in between, use commas before and after the dialogue tag, but don’t capitalize the first word in the second half of the quote. In each example sentence, correct one capitalization or punctuation error (you do not need to write the entire sentence, just the correction): 1. “Wise men make proverbs” Samuel Palmer said, “but fools repeat them. ” 2. “Reality is merely an illusion, ” Einstein said, “Albeit a very persistent one. ” 3. “Forgive your enemies, ” President Kennedy said “but never forget their names. ” 4. “Wars, ” Martin Luther King said. “Are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ” Wordplay – Just for fun! DESCRAMBLER: Try to sort out the five scrambled words below: DSIE UNERD NPRSEO BGOILNS CINCKHEG End 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

You may “chews” a piece of gum for our writing day! *Trash in the trash can *Spit it out at the end of class

Week 2 – Day 4 Using Quotations Write this down! Quotation Rule #4 – You can turn the quote into a clause in your own sentence by continuing the sentence. You don’t need a comma or a colon and you should not capitalize the first word of the quote. In each of the following sentences, find the error that needs to be corrected: 1. But as the weeks passed, he began to realize that, “many of the threats were in earnest. ” 2. He scolded them for acting like cowards, for backing down like “Little boys. ” 3. They expressed regret that: “this unfortunate incident has taken place in our city. ” 4. Grover Hall called the wholesale arrests “The dumbest act that has ever been done in Montgomery. ” 5. Voltaire claimed that, “a witty saying proves nothing. ” Wordplay – Just for fun! Create as many words as you can using four or more of the letters below (at least one eight -letter word is possible): D G B E A C I R

Week 2 – Day 4 Using Quotations Write this down! Quotation Rule #4 – You can turn the quote into a clause in your own sentence by continuing the sentence. You don’t need a comma or a colon and you should not capitalize the first word of the quote. In each of the following sentences, find the error that needs to be corrected: 1. But as the weeks passed, he began to realize that, “many of the threats were in earnest. ” 2. He scolded them for acting like cowards, for backing down like “Little boys. ” 3. They expressed regret that: “this unfortunate incident has taken place in our city. ” 4. Grover Hall called the wholesale arrests “The dumbest act that has ever been done in Montgomery. ” 5. Voltaire claimed that, “a witty saying proves nothing. ” End 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Wordplay – Just for fun! Create as many words as you can using four or more of the letters below (at least one eight -letter word is possible): D G B E A C I R

Week 2 – Day 5 Using Quotations Read the following excerpts from Freedom Walkers by Russell Freedman. Then answer the questions afterward: “That’s a matter for the legislature and the courts” said King. “We feel we have a plan within the [existing] law. ” 1. Where does this passage need a comma? 2. The word “existing” is in brackets. What does that mean? “It became a real honor to have been arrested, ” Fred Gray recalled. “Any number of persons… felt they had been somewhat insulted by not having been arrested for exercising their constitutional rights. ” 1. What is the name for the part of the sentence that says, “Fred Gray recalled”? 2. What does the ellipses mark (…) after “persons” tell you? Using the proper proofreading marks, correct the six errors in this excerpt: In a few weeks transportation was back to normal” King wrote, “And people of both rayces rode together wherever they pleased. The skies did not fall when integrated buses finally traveled the streets of montgomery.