reminders

Amigos,

We went over most of this in class, but there are a few tidbits you might like (:

Business first.

For Monday:

• I forgot to tell you this: bring your Writing Matters handbook on Monday. As you are preparing your lesson, you will need to be able to find the rule in the handbook for every question on the punctuation exercise you're teaching on. 
• punctuation exercises 1-5 completed
• two minute lesson prepared on your expertise
• bring five (or four) drafts depending on what group you're in. (for the table with Heather, Megan, Avarie, and Caryn: Sofia will be joining your peer review group for Wednesday, so you will all need to bring five drafts--one for me)
• clarification: as it says in the syllabus, you need to meet with me twice for each paper (you will lose 5% of your paper if you don't). On Friday we won't be having regular class because I will be doing conferences with all of you, so everyone will be coming in on Friday, and you'll need to come meet with me before then. 
• I haven't met with: Sofia, Megan, Kenny, Alex, Aaron, Christian, or Cameron. I have appointments scheduled with some of you, but some of you not. 

Okay, now fun stuff. Because you're going to have a grammar/punctuation weekend, you might need a little bit of a comic relief. I understand, punctuation can be taxing. 

Here's the first comic relief: 

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

This is the funniest blog ever. WARNING: this post doesn't swear (I don't think) but in general, this blogger is fond of throwing random swear words in (specifically the f word, unfortunately), so if you're sensitive to that, don't poke around too much in her other posts. 

Also, look at this:

Here's one more resource you can use if you have more questions about punctuation:
http://english.byu.edu/writingcenter/handouts/PunctuationUsage/commas.html

The Writing Center's website has a ton of useful information and different handouts about grammatical principles. Excellent resource.

Good luck! Have a fantastic weekend, and I'll see y'all on Monday.