Personal Narrative

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Personal Narrative

• Grammar revision October 8/9

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Heading

• Is your heading on the top left? Does it look
  like this? If not, fix it.
• Beyonce Knowles
• Mrs. Trace/Mrs. Mueller
• Honors 7th Grade Survey Literature Period
• 11 October 2012

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Formatting

• Check the following. If anything is incorrect,
  make note of it.
• Is your entire paper (including your title) typed
  in 12 pt./Times New Roman font?
• Is it evenly double spaced with 1 inch margins?
  (There should not be an extra space between
  paragraphs.)
• Are your paragraphs indented?
• Is your paper between 500-1000 words (2-4 pages?)

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Commonly Confused Words

• After working through your CCW exercises, look at
  your own paper and correct any words that you
  might have gotten confused.
• Pay special attention to
• To, too, two
• Their, there, theyre
• Affect, effect
• Your, youre
• Where, were, were

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Check for Fragments.

• Do each of your sentences have a complete subject
  and a complete predicate? REMEMBER A subject by
  itself or a predicate by itself is considered a
  fragment. (Review grammar lessons 1-2 for a
  reminder.)
• Fix any fragments.

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COMMA RULE FANBOYS

• Step one Circle all the (for, and, nor, but, or,
  yet, so) in your paper.
• Step two Is there an independent clause on EACH
  side of the FANBOYS word? ICSubject
  Predicate.
• If so, a comma MUST go in front of that FANBOYS
  word.
• Example
• I went to the park, and I played on the slide.
• If there isnt an independent clause on either
  side of the FANBOYS words, you do NOT need a
  comma.
• Example
• I went to the park and played on the slide.

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Final Rubric Review

• Flip open to the final narrative rubric. Lets
  read the descriptor for an A essay one more time.
  What do you need to work on from now until next
  class so that you earn an A essay?

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FOR THURSDAY/FRIDAY

• Submission Requirements
• You must bring a printed copy to class.
• You must bring ALL of your rough drafts and
  rubric.
• You MUST submit your essay on Turnitin.com. We
  will do this in class on Thursday/Friday, BUT you
  must bring your essay on a flash drive to do so.
  Make note of this now. Please do not tell your
  mom/dad that you need a flash drive at 900 pm on
  Wednesday night!
• You need an email address to create a
  Turnitin.com account. If you dont have an email,
  create one BEFORE next class!