Language Arts Week 8

November 16

Week 8 Warm-up: fixing misplaced modifiers (scroll down for answers)

Fixing-Misplaced-Modifiers-Worksheet.pdf

Construction

Punctuation basics: Here is a link to this week's Khan academy exercises. You can go to previous weeks' pages in the menu for a link to previous exercises.

Literature

We're living in tumultuous times with the coronavirus pandemic, and more recently, the wave of large protests against police brutality in cities around the country. Here is an engaging article about the protests and what they might mean for the future:

Composition

Please write and email a response to the question:

Things have changed a great deal in the last few months, and most people are eager to "get back to normal". But things weren't always so great before. What things do you want to see changed, rather than going back to the way they were?

Respond to the prompt on the bulletin board below: