Bell Ringer Activity:
For today's class, we will be applying what we learned about apostrophes yesterday by finding and explaining how apostrophes are used in Becoming Nicole.
Flip through your copies of Becoming Nicole and give Dr. B one example of each apostrophe rule we discussed in class yesterday. Explain how that apostrophe works. How did you know which rule the apostrophe was using?
Quote: "I think she's trying to take the kids. I'm getting passports" (19).
This particular quote uses two instances of the apostrophe rule involving contractions. "She's" is a contraction of "She" and "is." "I'm" is a contraction of "I" and "am."
Quote: "One of Wayne's friends was surprised by her..." (44).
The quote uses the possessive form "Wayne" by adding an apostrophe "s" to the end. Because Wayne is singular (there's only one Wayne), the possessive apostrophe rule is to add an apostrophe "s" at the end. Also, these are friends of Wayne, so the correct spelling is "Wayne's friends" because Wayne has ownership over them.
"Not until Kelly had stopped by Erhardt's office about a month after Jonas and Wyatt began first grade..." (71) This quote is about Erhardt owning her office, so you add an apostrophe s to the end. "...sneaked Wyatt into the girls' dressing room." (61) They used this apostrophe to show that the dressing room was for multiple girls,
ReplyDeleteRULE #1 "Pulling books off the shelves of the resource center's library and fielding all the Erhardt's questions"
ReplyDeleteRULE #3 "Wyatt's main concern is his overwhelmed desire to choke himself"
RULE #4 ".....Wyatt into the girls' dressing room."
"Not until Kelly had stopped by Erhardts's office about a month after Wyatt began first grade..."(71) Since its talking about her office you add a apostrophe at the end. "... Sneaked Wyatt into the girls' dressing room."(61) They used this apostrophe to show that the dressing room was for multiple girls.
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