You can put two complete sentences together with two types of sentence glue; either a comma and a conjunction, or with a semicolon. Practice with the following sentences.

1. I went to the store I bought some books.
2. Shelley ate her peas and she ate her carrots.
3. Mrs. Hislop plays the piano she loves to sing, too.
4. I love teaching junior high students they are more fun than high school students.
5. We celebrate Christmas in December we also celebrate Chanukah.

1/3 to 1/7

Monday 1/3:
1. Binder Reminders and Journals
2. Finish The Outsiders Book
3. The Outsiders Review Game
HW: Outsiders test tomorrow!

Tuesday 1/4:
1. Journals
2. The Outsiders Test
HW: NO HW!

Wednesday 1/5:
Computer Lab
1. Learning Targets Survey
2. Blog Comment
3. Plato
HW: NO HW!

Thursday 1/6:
1. Journals
2. Review The Outsiders Test
3. 7 Writing Traits
HW: Memorize the writing traits

Friday 1/7:
1. Journals
2. 7 Writing Traits
3. Personal Responses--FD
HW: Work on your FD Personal Response

Please correct the punctuation and capitalization in the following sentences:

1. i went to the movies and saw romeo and juliet.
2. mrs hislop said how are you today
3. i am going to visit santa fe new mexico someday.
4. i am going to watch the dog and she will water the plants
5. clean your room and eat your dinner

Add quotation marks to the following dialogue:

Hi said Mrs. Hislop.

Hi said her class.

How are you? asked Mrs. H.

We're great! said her class.

We are going to learn a lot today, said Mrs. Hislop.

We can't wait! answered her class.

12/13 to 12/16

Monday 12/13:
1. Binder Reminders and Journals
2. Review Outsiders Test
3. Review for District Benchmark Test
HW: Study Guide

Tuesday 12/14:
1. District Benchmark Test

Wednesday 12/15:
1. The Outsiders Movie (Durst Theater)
HW: The Outsiders Movie Questions

Thursday 12/16:
1. The Outsiders Movie (Durst Theater)

12/6 to 12/10

Monday 12/6:
1. Binder Reminders and Journals
2. Grammar Review
3. The Outsiders
HW: Grammar Review

Tuesday 12/7:
1. Journals and Grammar Review
2. The Outsiders
HW: Grammar Review

Wednesday 12/8:
1. Journals and Grammar Review
2. The Outsiders
HW: The Outsiders Final Test Study Guide

Thursday 12/9:
1. Journals and Grammar Review
2. The Outsiders
HW: The Outsiders Final Test Study Guide

Friday 12/10:
1. The Outsiders Final Test

For today's journal, please rewrite the following paragraph using proper capitalization, spelling, grammar, and punctuation:

today in class we are going to read the outsiders mrs hislop said we haven't read it since before thanksgiving break so you are going to have to try to remember what happened.

i really like the outsiders i cant wait to watch the movie in class the last week of school before break

yesterday we had a homework assignment i hope i remembered to do it