Hey baby girl! I missed you yesterday. I really enjoy your company on Mondays. I know Nicholas Cage isn't Tyler Oakley, but...Tyler Oakley happens to use a LOT of bad language-at least in the quotes I am finding under "images" on Google. So you're stuck with Nick.
I want to talk to you a little bit about the arguing between you and Daddy, and sometimes you and I also. I want to talk to you about this face to face though, not through a blog. I would like for you to read this first though. Its written for someone who is already out on their own, but I think the basic thoughts still apply.
Please keep in mind that any plans this weekend depend on ALLLLLL school work being finished each day. The only thing you'll be doing is the fall festival (minus Brooke) if it isn't.
For History today, we're learning about another explorer-Jacques Cartier (Jacques sounds kind of like "Jack" with a french accent). He was born the year before Columbus came to North America. He was French and claimed Canada for France. (That's why there are areas of Canada that still speak French today). He also named Canada.
Watch this video:
Here is more information about him.
Add his information to your chart.
One more explorer and then we'll be moving on.
For Math, do your XtraMath, then we're going to work on something else. Look over this math lesson. It works just like your Science lessons. Read the lesson and watch the video. Do any practice problems that are in the lesson, but not the list of problems at the end.
In Science, you've read about Diffusion, but today we're going to read about how its used in real life on a daily basis. Read the information and watch the video. Answer the three questions at the bottom using the information you've learned. Try taking notes while you read and watch the video and see if that helps you answer the questions. Listen for those things that you think will be important. Remember you can stop the video when you want to write something down.
Today we are going to start working on Grammar. You're writing is amazing. You impress me on the daily. (see what I said there? I'm with it.) Your writing will only improve with better grammar skills. Read the introduction on page vii-viii (right in the front).
Today we'll be talking about commas in a series, in dates, and places.
Using commas in a series
In English you can use series commas when you list items. Separating items in a list helps clarify things. Imagine that you text a shopping list to your roommate Charlie, who’s at the store shopping for your birthday party. Everything’s on one line.
flashlight batteries butter cookies ice cream cake
How many things does Charlie have to buy? Perhaps only three:
- flashlight batteries
- butter cookies
- ice cream cake
Or five:
- flashlight
- batteries
- butter cookies
- ice cream
- cake
How does Charlie know? He doesn’t, unless you use commas. Here’s what Charlie actually needs to buy — all four items:
flashlight batteries, butter cookies, ice cream, cake
To put it in a sentence:
Charlie has to buy flashlight batteries, butter cookies, ice cream, and cake.
The commas between these items are signals. When you read the list aloud, the commas emerge as breaths:
Charlie has to buy flashlight batteries [breath] butter cookies [breath] ice cream [breath] and cake.
Wrong: Charlie has to buy, flashlight batteries, butter cookies, ice cream and cake.
Right: Charlie has to buy flashlight batteries, butter cookies, ice cream and cake.
Also right: Charlie has to buy flashlight batteries, butter cookies, ice cream, and cake.
Also right, but not a good idea: Charlie has to buy flashlight batteries and butter cookies and ice cream and cake.
You don’t need commas at all in the last sentence because the word and does the job. Grammatically, that sentence is fine. In reality, if you write a sentence with three ands, your reader will think you sound like a little kid or a tape on continuous rewind.
Here’s a pop quiz. Punctuate the following sentence.
Belle requested a jelly doughnut a silk dress four sports cars and a racehorse in exchange for the rights to the computer code she had written.
Answer: Belle requested a jelly doughnut, a silk dress, four sports cars, and a racehorse in exchange for the rights to the computer code she had written.Note: You may omit the comma before the and.
Commas in dates and address
Commas are good, all-purpose separators. They won’t keep you and your worst enemy apart, but they do a fine job on addresses and dates — especially when items that are usually placed on individual lines are put next to each other on the same line.
How to punctuate addresses in your writing
Where are you from? Jill is from Mars. Belle is from a small town called Venus. Here’s her (fictional) address, the way you see it on an envelope:
Ms. Belle Planet
223 Center Street
Venus, New York 10001
In the body of a letter, you can insert an address in envelope form like this:
Please send a dozen rockets to the following address:
Ms. Belle Planet
223 Center Street
Venus, New York 10001
If you put Belle’s address into a sentence, you have to separate each item of the address, as you see here:
Belle Planet lives at 223 Center Street, Venus, New York 10001.
If the sentence continues, you must separate the last item in the address from the rest of the sentence with another comma:
Belle Planet lives at 223 Center Street, Venus, New York 10001, but she is thinking of moving to Mars in order to be closer to her friend Jill.
If there is no street address —just a city and a state — put a comma between the city and the state. If the sentence continues after the state name, place a comma after the state.
Belle Planet lives in Venus, New York, but she is thinking of moving to Mars.
Commas also separate countries from the city/state/province:
Roger lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, near a large body of water. His brother Michael just built a house in Zilda, Wisconsin.
How to punctuate written dates
The rules for placing commas in dates aren’t very stable these days. What was once carved into stone is now sometimes viewed as old-fashioned. To make matters even more complicated, writers from different areas (science, literature, and the like) favor different systems. If you’re writing for publication, check with your editor about the publisher’s preferred style.
If the date is alone on a line (perhaps at the top of a letter), these formats are fine:
September 28, 2060 (traditional)
Sept. 28, 2060 (traditional)
28 September 2060 (modern in the United States, traditional in many other countries)
When dates appear in a sentence, the format changes depending upon how traditional you want to be and how much information you want to give:
On September 28, 2060, Lulu ate several thousand gummy candies. (Traditional: commas separate the day and year and the year from the rest of the sentence.)
In October, 2060, Lulu gave up sugary snacks. (Traditional: a comma separates the month from the year and the year from the rest of the sentence.)
Lulu pigs out every October 31. (Timeless: both the traditional and modern camp omit commas in this format.)
In October 2060 Lulu suffered from severe indigestion. (Modern: no commas appear.)
Lulu visited a nutritionist on 20 October 2060. (Modern: no commas appear.)
Got it?? Questions?? KIK me!
After you finish reading over these lessons, do this activity.
For Reading read the first chapter in Fangirl and tell me what you think!
For writing do today's Daily 10 topic: Prankster: Write about mischief that you have planned, committed, or observed. Make it as descriptive as possible. After you finish, take some more time and see if you can edit it to make it really descriptive.
No Life skills today.
Whew!! That took a while! Are you still with me?? I love you dearly-I don't even know if you understand what a joy you are in my life. And remember:
Connor Franta is a sloth.
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