Daily Language Workouts 12.pdf

This page is intentionally left blankHOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURTVRIESOURCEDaily LanguageWorkoutsGrade 12InteractiveWhiteboardCompatible!Daily MUG Shot SentencesWeekly MUG Shot ParagraphsWriting PromptsWriting TopicsShow-Me SentencesGREATSOURCE.HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURTA Few Words AboutDaily Language Workouts Grade 12Before you begin.The activities in this book will help your students develop basic writing,editing,andproofreading skills.Youll find three types of exercises on the following pages.MUG Shot Sentences,Paragraphs,and Sentence Combining Thereare 150 sentences and 30 paragraphs highlighting mechanics,usage,and grammar errorsfor students to correct.The MUG Shot sentences can be used daily;the paragraphs shouldbe used once a week.The sentence combining activities that follow each paragraph providestudents with additional writing practice.Daily Writing Practice This section contains writing prompts that you canphotocopy or make into a transparency.The Show-Me sentences provide starting pointsfor paragraphs,essays,and a wide variety of other forms.They also provide opportunities forstudents to show rather than tell.The sentence modeling section helps students improvetheir writing style.Journals and Learning Logs The journals and learning logs section containsguidelines and starting points for journal writing.Students will also find guidelines forlearning logs and note taking.Write Source Online provides the lessons in this book for interactive whiteboardinstruction.To use,open the files from Write Source Online using your whiteboard software.Photo Acknowledgements P.129,130 Corbis;131 James W.Porter/Corbis;132,133 Photodisc/Getty Images.Copyright by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyAll rights reserved.No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,includingphotocopying or recording,or by any information storage or retrieval system,without the prior written permission of the copyright owner unlesssuch copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law.Permission is hereby granted to individuals using the corresponding students textbook or kit as the major vehicle for regular classroominstruction to photocopy entire pages from this publication in classroom quantities for instructional use and not for resale.Requestsfor information on other matters regarding duplication of this work should be addressed to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company,Attn:Paralegal,9400 South Park Center Loop,Orlando,Florida 32819.Printed in the U.S.A.1SBN978-0-54748524-91234567891009561918171615141312111045XXXXXXXXA B C D E FGIf you have received these materials as examination copies free of charge,Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company retains title tothe materials and they may not be resold.Resale of examination copies is strictly prohibited.Possession of this publication in print format does not entitle users to convert this publication,or any portion of it,into electronic format.ContentsitiCONTENTSEditing and Proofreading Marks ivMUG Shot OverviewMUG Shot Sentence Organizer 2Using MUG Shot Sentences and Paragraphs 3Errors Covered in the Daily Language Workouts4Daily Sentences,Weekly Paragraphs/Sentence CombiningSET 1-3:Focus on Punctuation 6SET 4:Focus on Capitalization and Fragments 18SET 5:Focus on Capitalization and Comma Splices 22SET 6:Focus on Plurals,Numbers,and Abbreviations 26SET 7:Focus on Rambling and Run-On Sentences 30SET 8-9:Focus on Pronoun Problems 34SET 10-11:Focus on Verb Problems 42SET 12:Focus on Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 50SET 13:Focus on Adjective/Adverb Forms 54SET 14:Focus on Deadwood/Wordiness 58SET 15:Focus on Parallel Structure and Fair Language 62SET 16-30:Mixed Reviews 66Daily Writing PracticeWriting Prompts 129Show-Me Sentences 141Sentence Modeling and Expanding 144Journals and Learning LogsJournals and Learning Logs 150Writing Topics 154