1. Copy the following in your warm-up section of your binder
DWL:  Janet was (going to) gonna prance through the Coronado High School hallways, but she didn’t (want to) wanna embarrass herself. Instead she gave way to waltzing as her five friends laughed. Therefore, she cried.

2. Rewrite the following leaving out “so”
Sara went to the mall. So she went into a store and bought a shirt, so she could wear it to the party. Her mom didn’t like it because it was strapless. So Sara took it back. So when she got to the store, she found an even more extravagant top, so she was excited.

3. What words should be capitalized?
John went to coronado high school. he was from china and only knew chinese. this made it difficult for him to communicate with paul and jane his new friends. i tried to be his friend as well. he was very nice and took english classes with lee at a school on mesa st. it was just the other side of the rio grande river.

4. Keeping verbs consistent
The cat was eating his dinner when a dog enter the room and scare it away. The owner corrected the dog and give the cat new food. School was fun today. Especially when we watch a movie about a fish that get away.

5. Paragraphs All paragraphs must be indented ½ inch
Paragraphs start a new train of thought or new scene.

6. Dialogue
When writing dialogue you must start a new paragraph any time someone new starts talking. T

7. What 6 rules will help me to correctly use dialogue in my writing?
Dialogue Rules!
What 6 rules will help me to correctly use dialogue in my writing?

8. 1. Indent every time a new person speaks.
I sat down across from her and began to lay out my cards. “Stop that,” she said. “What?” I said.

9. 2. Put quotation marks around the things people say aloud.
“Stop copying me,” she said. “Mom, tell him to stop copying me. He’s driving me crazy."

10. 3. Capitalize the first word of a direct quotation.
“Leave your sister alone,” Mom said, “and come help me work on this jigsaw puzzle. I’m having trouble.”

11. 4. Put end punctuation inside the quotation marks.
“Leave your sister alone,” Mom said, “and come help me work on this jigsaw puzzle. I’m having trouble.”

12. 5. If you break up dialogue with narration, be sure to use a comma before jumping back into your narration.
“Leave your sister alone,” Mom said, “and come help me work on this jigsaw puzzle. I’m having trouble.”

13. 6. OPTION: Italicize thoughts.
Surely he doesn't think Vicky is in love with him! thought Anne.

14. 7. He said, She Said: When your character is directly quoting someone else, you need quotes within quotes.
“George said, ‘We could all go together,’ when I talked to him the other day,” Margaret sassed back.