ENGLISH 12PROOFREADING AND EDITING
REVIEWING STRUCTURE AND MECHANICS:
The following lessons are a review of concepts taught in previous years. As a means of review, you are expected to complete the following Chapters in Essay Essentials by the FRIDAY of the specified week. [Answers are in the back of the book] It is also advisable to take notes on the rules for correct usage as you proceed.This is a SELF-DIRECTED UNIT!
Early each week, there will be a pre-quiz. Students who achieve a set grade on the pre-quiz are exempt from the homework and the Friday quiz and receive a perfect score on that quiz. On the Friday of each week, there will be a quiz on mechanics and structure. Quizzes may include any concept up to and including those learned in a current week.
Only students who have completed the assigned chapter may write these quizzes.
If you want extra practice to improve your understanding of a specific English concept, you should visit the website and complete the specified quizzes. The website also features tutorials on the various concepts. Read over these sections when necessary.
It is also highly recommended that you visit the above website and complete the “Spelling” and “College Level Vocabulary Sections,” during the course of the semester!
Essay Essentials (white edition)0RINTERACTIVE QUIZZES
Week One:Chapters 38, 39, 40 & 41Quizzes 95-99 & 125 –132
Spelling
Apostrophe [ ‘ ]
Capitalization
Wrong Words - Look-AlikesQuizzes 130 – 132
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Week TwoChapter 24N/A
Subjects and Verbs
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Week Three:Chapter 25Quizzes 69 – 71 and 67
Fragments
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Week Four:Chapter 26Quizzes 73-77
Run-ons
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Week: FiveChapter 27Quizzes 78, 79 & 122
Misplaced Modifiers
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Week Six:Chapter 28Quizzes 118 – 120 Faulty Parallelism
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Week Seven:Chapter 29Read section on website
Combining SentencesQuizzes 65, 111- 113
Week Eight:Chapter 30Quizzes 31 – 34
Subject / Verb Agreement
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Week Nine:Chapter 31Quizzes 41-44 & 29, 30
Tense
Active VoiceQuiz 51
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Week Ten:Chapter 32 Quizzes 100-104 & 108 - 110
Pronoun Use
Pronoun / Antecedent Agreement
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Week Eleven:Chapter 33Quizzes 80 - 83 The Comma
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Week Twelve:Chapter 34Quiz 91
The Colon [ : ]
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Week Thirteen:Chapter 35Quizzes 84 - 89
The Semicolon [ ; ]Punctuation review
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Week Fourteen:Chapter 36
? and ! MarksN/A
Quotation MarksQuiz 92
Dialogue Rules
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Week Fifteen:Chapter 37 & 42N/A
Dashes and Parentheses
Hyphens
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Week Sixteen:Chapter 11Quizzes 114 - 116
Wordiness
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Week Seventeen:Review Essay Essentials before it is collected. Chapters 2 and 3 are very important, as is Chapter 9.
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Week Eighteen:Review: Complete the interactive quizzes for sections that posed problems during the semester.