1. Language Arts: Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Handouts: * Grammar #63 (Capitalizing Sentences, Quotations, and Salutations, Part 1)
Homework: *Grammar #63 (Capitalizing Sentences, Quotations, and Salutations, Part 1), due tomorrow, BOC
Assignments due: * None

2. Starter #1: Open your comp book to the first blank page
Starter #1: Open your comp book to the first blank page. Write down the following heading and prompt, but do NOT start answering it until after you complete today’s grammar assignment:
Tuesday, March 26, QW #54: No Place Like Home
Are there situations in which using a cell phone is inappropriate? Does using cell phones ever pose dangerous situations? Indicate whether you think we should have cell phone laws, and if so, what those laws should state. Support/defend your answer.
Remember to write in complete sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons. If you are not sure how to spell a certain word, just sound it out and circle it.

3. Lesson Goal: Learn to use capitals correctly in sentences, quotations, and salutations.
Outcomes: Be able to . . .
Explain when to use capital letters insofar as sentences, quotations, and salutations are concerned.
Apply the correct use of capitals for sentences, quotations, and salutations.
Identify errors in capitalization for sentences, quotations, and salutations.

4. Capitalize the first word of every sentence.
Starter #2: Today we begin Unit 11, on “Capitalization.” When you were little and were learning to read, what was the first rule you learned about when to use capital letters?
Capitalize the first word of every sentence.
This assignment is due at the beginning of class tomorrow.
Similarly, the first word of a direct quotation is capitalized if the quotation is a complete sentence.
Mrs. Crawford said, “Start with the dictionary.”

5. Starter #3: Here’s where using capitals in quotations gets tricky
Starter #3: Here’s where using capitals in quotations gets tricky Sometimes there are words that interrupt a quotation, like an “attribute,” for example. (An “attribute” means you indicate who the words are attributed to, that is, who is speaking.)
When an attribute is placed the middle of a quote, do NOT capitalize the second part of the quote (right after the attribute), unless that second part begins a new sentence.
“Could you please wait,” the teacher said, “until after we finish this activity?”

6. Starter #4: Let’s see if you “get it
Starter #4: Let’s see if you “get it.” For each sentence below, tell me how to correctly use the rules for capitalization, and defend your answer:
“start with the dictionary,” said Mrs. Crawford, “where you can find a lot of useful facts.”
“Start with the dictionary,” said Mrs. Crawford, “where you can find a lot of useful facts.”
“start with the dictionary,” said Mrs. Crawford. “you can find a wealth of useful facts there.”
“Start with the dictionary,” said Mrs. Crawford. “You can find a wealth of useful facts there.”