Italics or Quotation Marks

Do exercise to fill in the thesis statement and two topic sentences.

Discuss thesis and topic sentences.

Do exercise about underlining and quotation marks on page 558 in Writing and Skills.

Write each of the following sentences. Use quotation marks or underlining wherever they are required.

1. Do you like stories like The Lady, or the Tiger which leave the reader up in the air?

2. Rosa must memorize This Land Is Your Land; This Land is My Land for our program on folk music.

3. Who's responsible for the saying: It's Greek to me?

4. The first daily comic strip, called Mr. Mutt, began in 1907 in the San Fransisco Chronicle.

5. Hard work and integrity, the speaker commented, have always marked this nation's progress.

6. My grandfather has a copy of the Tribune issue that announced the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

7. I learned to make this flute from a pamphlet called Make Your Own Musical Instruments.

8. Did you know that Theresea's short story will be in the May issue of Creative Writer, the magazine we get at school?

9. Dad got the whole family tickets for the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

10. One of my favorite television programs, Nova, is broadcast on PBS.

Complete culture, heritage, attitudes, and traditions organizer for "The Great Rat Hunt."

Make sure you have turned in the following.

Questions 1 -7 about "The Great Rat Hunt" on page 115.

Vocabulary on page 116.

Paragraphs about three funny things in "The Great Rat Hunt."

Three facts about Lawrence Yep.