Editing Your Planet Project

Editing Your Planet Project

Name: ______
Homeroom: ______
Date: ______

Planet: ______

Editor-In-Chief: Your job is to go over your project’s information before turning it in to check for accuracy, spelling errors, grammar mistakes, capitalization errors, punctuation mistakes, unclear sentences, and the presence of all required research information and illustrations. Use the checklist below to help you. Use whatever means you have at your disposal.

Capitalization Rules:
Use a capital letter for...
1. the first word of every sentence
2. the word "I"
3. the names of people
4. the names of streets, cities, states, and
countries
5. the names of places
6. the names of days, months, and holidays
7. a person's initials
8. the greeting and the closing of a letter
9. the names of planets, moons, stars, and
man-made satellites or spacecraft / Required Research Info. & Illustrations:
__ 1. Length of a Day (One Rotation)
__ 2. Length of a Year (One Revolution)
__ 3. Diameter (How Big Across)
__ 4. Planet's Average Distance From the Sun
__ 5. Planet's Mass
__ 6. Surface Gravity
__ 7. Number of Moons & Some of Their Names
__ 8. An Interesting Fact about One of the Moons
__ 9. Number of Rings (if any)
__ 10. Namesake (Who was it named after?)
__ 11. What is its atmosphere made of?
__ 12. Facts about the Planet’s Surface
__ 13. Three (3) facts about the planet
__ 14. The most interesting fact about your planet
__ 15. Comparisons to Earth (Two ways it is like Earth)
__ 16. Contrasts to Earth (Two ways it is different from Earth)
__ 17. What you would like to know more about
__ 18. Illustration of the planet
__ 19. Illustration of at least one moon
__ 20. Illustration of the planet's symbol

Punctuation Rules:

Period
1. A period ends a statement.
I like ice cream.
2. A period is used after abbreviations and initials.
Dr. Choc O. Late writes
224 Rocky Rd. as her address.
Comma
1. A comma separates words in a series.
Let's buy maple nut, peach swirl, and mint.
2. A comma comes between a date and
a year and also between a city and
state.
The ice cream shop opened on July 4, 1980. It is in
Detroit, Michigan.
3. A comma comes after the greeting and closing in a
friendly letter.
Dear Van Illia,
How are you doing?
Love,
Al Mond / Question Mark
A question mark ends a question.
Where is the closest ice cream shop?
Exclamation Mark
An exclamation mark shows a strong feeling.
Wow! What a flavor! I love raspberry ripple!
Apostrophe
1. An apostrophe shows where letters have been left out
in contractions.
you're (you are) o'clock (of the clock) it's (it is)
2. An apostrophe shows ownership.
My dad's sundae and my two sisters' sodas look good.
Quotation Marks
Quotation marks enclose a direct quotation.
"What's your special flavor of the month?" I asked.