Revising/Editing: A Testing Disaster (Narrative) - Part 4

Aims:
1. IWBAT revise, edit, and publish my creative narrative about a testing disaster.
2. IWBAT demonstrate mastery of how to correctly capitalize and punctuate dialogue.

Tasks:
1. Do Now: Review for your quiz by completing the following activities (in any order):

• Review: Read how to capitalize and punctuation dialogue correctly: Conventions Review 
• Mild: Determine where quotation marks should go: Practice Activity 1
• Mild: Select the choice that shows proper capitalization and punctuation: Practice Activity 2
• Medium: Play rags to riches with quotations: Practice Activity 3
• Medium: Complete three different activities with quotations: Practice Activity 4
• Spicy: Edit and rewrite sentences with correctly written quotations: Practice Activity 5
• Spicy: Add commas everywhere they belong: Practice Activity 6

2. Quiz #32: Capitalization and Punctuation of Dialogue

3. Revise Your Narrative

• Use the ideas/organization revision checklist to set priorities for revision: directions here (Task #3)
• Convert telling to showing to make the reader feel like he/she is there: directions here (Tasks #3 & #6)
• Add more dialogue: directions here (Task #4)
• Use synonyms for said: directions here (Task #4)
• Edit dialogue for correct capitalization & punctuation: directions here (Task #3)
• There is always more to do! Keep going, and you will continue to improve your writing!

4. Edit Your Dialogue:

• Edit dialogue for correct capitalization & punctuation: directions here (Task #3)
• Check for the following things: (and correct errors!)
• you have capitalized the first word of each sentence
• you have a punctuation mark at the end of each sentence
• there is a space after each period and each comma
• you have indented each paragraph using the TAB key
• you have skipped to next line when starting a new paragraph
• there are no misspelled words (no words with squiggly red line underneath)

5. Narrative Share: Read and comment on 2-3 different teammates' narratives. For each narrative, write at least 2 pieces of feedback: 1 positive (Something I loved...) and 1 constructive (Something you could improve...).

• Find links to your teammates' narratives here.
• Remember, you can make comments by clicking Comment in the Insert menu, or you can just click Ctrl + Alt + M.
• Make your feedback about our revision topics: adding dialogue, correct writing of dialogue, showing (not telling), or the revision checklist from Tuesday 

6. TeenBiz3000: Complete today's activity on TeenBiz3000. If you finish early, complete other activities while staying on the TeenBiz website.



Homework: Disney Dialogue