Bell Ringer Activity:
For today's class, we are reviewing the conventions of standard written English by focusing on apostrophes. As a proficient high school student writer, it is your responsibility to use punctuation and grammar correctly!
1) Watch Kahn Academy's video on apostrophes, here.
2) Complete practice exercises: "Apostrophes and Plurals" and "Practice Choosing between its and it's."
3) Lastly, comment on this post with a reflection. Describe your errors and your correct responses.
A lot of my errors came from the questions that had capitals and apostrophes like the DVD's and CD's questions I got to the right answer by using the hints
ReplyDelete5the correct answer was DVDs without and apostraphie
DeleteI kept getting stuck on the plurals. I forgot the rule that there were no apostrophes in plurals. After watching the video I corrected it.
ReplyDeleteI got most of my answers right but the ones that I didn't get right were because I either didn't really think about it or I thought they were right, they looked right but they actually were wrong.
ReplyDeleteI made the mistake of pizza's thinking that the pizza owned something instead of pizzas and my other mistakes were also similar to that. I got them right after I guessed at them.
ReplyDeleteThe errors I made on the quiz was I thought that you use an apostrophe for plurals. I watched that video and saw the picture on this post and realized that you don't use them for plurals.
ReplyDeleteThere is an exception to that rule if you have a lowercase you can use an apostrophe like i's you would want an apostrophe to say that it isn't is.
DeleteI didn't make any errors, I got them all right. I knew how the pluralizing lower case letters worked. With lower case i, it wouldn't be is because that says is, and it wouldn't be I's because they asked about lowercase i's.
ReplyDeleteI got all of the questions correct. I knew messes was correct over messes' or messe's because the messes don't own anything.
ReplyDeleteI made the mistake of thinking the apostrophe went after the s's for plural. I figured out what was going on after awhile and got them right.
ReplyDeleteI had trouble with the questions like i's and j's because I thought they would spelled like I's and J's. I figured them out after getting a couple wrong and learning what I did wrong.
ReplyDeleteI messed up on mostly dates and plurals. I thought at first the when it said "the '90s" the apostrophe would be in between the 90 and the s. I did know that you use an apostrophe when describing a lower case letter but the letter I messed me up because I know that when you use the letter I in a sentence it is capitalized. I also messed up on almost every word that was plural but I know now that plural words don't actually need and apostrophe.
ReplyDeleteThe mistake I made was I clicked the wrong one. I knew the answer but just hit the wrong one. Other than that I got them all right.
ReplyDeleteOne of the big errors I had was thinking an apostrophe would be used for plurals. Such as "I take piano lessons on Tuesdays." I thought the apostrophe would go in Tuesdays. Although there is an exception when you are making a lowercase letter plural. Such as i's and j's.
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ReplyDeleteI made a lot of mistakes before i say the video. I thought that the apostrophe were put after the word for plurals when the only word that uses a apostrophe for plural are lowercase letters.
ReplyDeleteAfter I say the video I was able to not make the same mistake made.
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ReplyDeleteWell, I didn't make any mistakes, but it still gave me a bad score which is weird. I just knew that you don't put an apostrophe in a word to make it plural. One of my examples was pizzas, pizza's, and pizzas', and I chose pizzas. One exception to the rule is that you can make a lowercase letter plural by putting an apostrophe s after the letter. One of the examples was I's, i's, and is. So I chose i's.
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