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WEEK 1: Ball Games

Comma (Appositives), Capitalization

jackie robinson the first African American major-league baseball player

played his first game with the brooklyn dodgers in 1947.

Run-On Sentence, Comma (Dates)

Until April 8 1974 Babe Ruth held the American record for home runs he

held the record for bases on balls until April 26 2001.

Capitalization, End Punctuation, Using the Right Word, Comma (Numbers)

Would you believe that over 7000 years ago Ancient Egyptians liked to

bowl on alleys alot like ours

Capitalization, Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses),

Using the Right Word

the Cleveland Indians are named after Louis Sockolexis whom was the

first native american to play professional baseball.

Using the Right Word, Plurals

Golf ball’s used to be little feather pillows maid of leather.


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WEEK 2: Sports History

Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Using the Right Word,

Rambling Sentence

In the 1700s and 1800s in Peru bullfighters were women, which fought

bulls while riding horseback and that was also the time when the major

breeds of fighting bulls were developed.

Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives), Verb (Irregular), Comma (Addresses)

The first modern day Olympic Games taked place in Athens Greece in 1896.

Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Using the Right Word, Capitalization

when he began playing pool for exercise louis XIV made the game vary

popular in France.

Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Verb (Irregular), Plurals

Before players begun wearing safety gear football produced so many

injurys that colleges often banned the game.

Subject-Verb Agreement, Abbreviations, Numbers, Colon or Dash

Jerry Rice hold the nfl record for touchdowns two hundred five.


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WEEK 3: Sports Facts

Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement, Dash

Until 1892, all professional boxing matches was slugged out with bear

fists no gloves.

Using the Right Word, Capitalization, Period, Spelling

In 1867, william a cummings through the first curveball in Baseball

histery.

Verb (Irregular), Using the Right Word, Numbers

In 1981, baseball players gone on strike for seven weaks, and

seven hundred thirteen games across the country were canceled.

Comma (Numbers and Unnecessary), Capitalization

pete rose retired, in 1985, with 4256 hits to his credit.

Subject-Verb Agreement, Comma (To Separate Adjectives), Interjection

Wow About 25 million hollow rubber tennis balls is put into play every

year.


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WEEK 4: Instant Replay

Using the Right Word, Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement

wood you believe that bricklaying are the traditional trade of those whom

most often become spanish bullfighters?

Double Subject, Wordy Sentence

Emmitt Smith he holds the NFL record for the most yards rushing in a

career, and no one has ever made more than he has.

Subject-Verb Agreement, Using the Right Word, End Punctuation

Until 2001, Babe Ruth were walked more then any other baseball player?

Verb (Irregular), Capitalization, Combining Sentences

reggie jackson swinged like a dynamo. Reggie hit three home runs in the

final game of the 1977 world series.

Capitalization, Using the Right Word, Numbers, Verb (Tense)

ty cobb is the 1st player excepted into the baseball hall of fame.


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WEEK 5: Potpourri

Apostrophe, Using the Right Word, Hyphen

Ill bet you didnt no that youll sleep through one third of you’re life.

Subject-Verb Agreement, Capitalization

canned foods was first developed in order to feed napoleon’s army.

Wordy Sentence, Pronoun (Reflexive)

In China, brides traditionally adorn their selves in bright red, putting on

crimson apparel.

Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Sentence Fragment,

Adverb (Comparative/Superlative), Capitalization

during the middle ages in england beer oftenest served with breakfast.

Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement

ancient rock drawings proves that Horse Racing is at least 3,000 years

old.


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WEEK 6: Animal Facts

Using the Right Word, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses)

When a dessert lizard senses danger it vibrates too instantly sink beneath

the sand.

Comma (Direct Address), Subject-Verb Agreement, End Punctuation,

Parentheses

Juan did you know that some kinds of wasps for example, mud daubers

builds nests out of mud

Numbers, Using the Right Word, Capitalization, Combining Sentences

a Queen bee can live for 5 years. She can lie millions of eggs.

Using the Right Word, Comma (Numbers), Subject-Verb Agreement

Wood you believe a caterpillar have about 4000 muscles in it’s body?

Comma Splice, Comma (Between Independent Clauses), Verb (Tense)

Catfish are sort of weird, they didn’t have scales but they did have

whiskers.


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WEEK 7: Amazing Critters

Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement, Pronoun (Reflexive),

Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses)

Using it’s lungs to breathe the walking catfish move themself over land

from one body of water to another.

Apostrophe (Possessives), Comma Splice, Using the Right Word

A mosquitos wings beat about 1,000 times a second, an annoying hum

comes from it’s beating wings.

Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives), Using the Right Word, Numbers

A full grown lion can eat seventy-five pounds of meet in one meal.

Using the Right Word, Comma (Between Independent Clauses)

Male lions way several hundred pounds and are vary strong but they

prefer to stay home with the cubs while the females do the hunting.

Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives), Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement,

Comma (To Separate Adjectives), Subject-Verb Agreement

When a llama get mad, it spits thick bad smelling saliva into their

enemy’s face.


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WEEK 8: Animal Crackers

Subject-Verb Agreement, Numbers

Lobsters walks around on 8 legs just as spiders do.

Using the Right Word, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses),

Abbreviations, Adjective (Articles)

Only an fraction of an inch long at berth lobsters may grow to way as

much as 20 lbs.

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Subject-Verb Agreement, End Punctuation,


A baby squirrel is born with it’s eyes closed, and they keep them closed

four about a month

Using the Right Word, Comma (Between Independent Clauses),

Double Negative

Starfish don’t have no legs but they can creep around on alot of little

tube feet.

Abbreviations, Wordy Sentence, Using the Right Word

A beaver can swim half a mile and hold it’s breath for 15 min., which is

a quarter of an hour.


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WEEK 9: Birds and Bears

Using the Right Word, Numbers, Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses)

Polar bares can run about thirty-five miles per hour which is as fast as

lions can run.

Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Subject-Verb Agreement, Semicolon

The most largest bird is the ostrich it weigh as much as 300 pounds.

Apostrophe, Double Subject, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Numbers

Ostriches they cant fly, but it can run as fast as forty miles per hour.

Parentheses, Numbers

The bee hummingbird about 2 inches long builds a nest the size of half a

walnut shell.

Numbers, Colon or Dash, End Punctuation

A bird called the arctic tern migrates from the North Pole to the

South Pole and back again each year about twenty-two thousand miles

round-trip


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WEEK 10: Creature Features

Using the Right Word, Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives), End Punctuation

Did you no that human beings are the longest living mammals in the

world

Subject-Verb Agreement, Pronoun (Reflexive), Verb (Tense)

One way a shark protects its own self are with skin so rough that

humans once harvests it to use as sandpaper.

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Subject-Verb Agreement,

Comma (Unnecessary), Using the Right Word, Adjective (Articles)

It is a mail sea horse, that carries the eggs in a pouch until it hatches.

Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Parallelism

The elephant seal is the most largest type of seal, growing as long as 21

feet and it weighs as much as 8,000 pounds.

Comma (Interjections and Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses),

Using the Right Word, End Punctuation

Really are rhinoceros horns which both male and female rhinoceros have

maid of hardened hare


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WEEK 11: Creatures Great and Small

Using the Right Word, Apostrophe, Double Negative, Spelling

Poison works good in controling rat populations because rats cant never

vomit.

Comma (Unnecessary), Using the Right Word, End Punctuation, Interjection,

Capitalization

Yikes if you get a horned toad angry, it will squirt blood, from it’s eyes

Using the Right Word, Abbreviations, Numbers, Capitalization

A typical Hen lies about two hundred twenty-five eggs in 1 yr.

Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Subject-Verb Agreement

Dolphins is considered one of the mostly intelligent creatures on this

earth.

Quotation Marks, Using the Right Word

Lions say hello buy butting there heads.


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WEEK 12: Science on the Move

Numbers, Abbreviations, Using the Right Word

Blood actually is thicker then H2O . . . 6 times thicker.

Comma (Appositives), Adjective (Comparative/Superlative)

Pluto the most small planet in our solar system travels around the sun

every 248 years.

Numbers, Wordy Sentence, Apostrophe, Parentheses

It takes the moon a little more than twenty-seven day’s about a month to

orbit Earth and go all the way around it.

End Punctuation, Hyphen, Abbreviations

Is the moon moving away from Earth at a rate of one half in. per year

Using the Right Word, Numbers

Earth moves threw space at sixty-six thousand seven hundred miles per

hour.


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WEEK 13: Scientifically Speaking

Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Nonstandard Language,

Subject-Verb Agreement

If you had read the assignment you would of discovered that skin are the

largest organ of the human body.

Using the Right Word, Parallelism

You’re sense of smell is the first sense to go to sleep at night and the

last one that wakes up in the mourning.

Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Comma (Appositives)

The most hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone or mandible.

Comma Splice, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses),

Adjective (Comparative/Superlative)

Because it is the most fast planet in our solar system Mercury has the

shortest year, it’s only 88 days long.

Capitalization, Comma (Appositives and To Separate Adjectives)

Albert einstein a brilliant german-born physicist discovered that the force

of Gravity can bend light.


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WEEK 14: Science Research

Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Using the Right Word

The skin on your eyelid is more thinner then the skin anywhere else on

you’re body.

Capitalization, Colon or Dash, Adjective (Articles)

In 1851, a french scientist named jean foucault discovered a important

fact of astronomy the earth rotates.

Using the Right Word, Verb (Tense), Spelling

In 1602, the first successful stomack surgery was performed on a sword

swallower whom has swallowed a dagger.

Quotation Marks, Comma (Direct Address), Interjection, End Punctuation,

Capitalization

Listen class do you know that the planet Jupiter is so big that each of

the other planets could fit inside of it Mr. Grim asked.

Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Misplaced Modifier,

Subject-Verb Agreement

Each day meteor dust drift down to Earth about a thousand tons of it.


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WEEK 15: Scientific Observations

Capitalization, Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement

Goat’s milk are easier two digest then Cow’s milk, so it is often used for

baby food.

Comma (Series), Capitalization, Apostrophe (Possessives)

Mercury venus mars and pluto resemble our planets size chemical

composition and density.

Verb (Tense), Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Albert Einstein discovered that the faster things move, the heavier it

became.

Comma Splice, Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement, Spelling

The cucumber and the tomato isn’t vegatables, there fruits.

Double Negative, Pronoun (Reflexive), Semicolon

A redwood tree won’t never burn because its bark is so thick the tree

protects it from fire this way.


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WEEK 16: Proof Positive

Parallelism, Comma (Series), Run-On Sentence, Adjective (Articles)

Honey is sweet, nutritious, and spoilage is never a problem it’s an favorite

food of bears badgers and humans like it, too!

Subject-Verb Agreement, Apostrophe (Possessives), Run-On Sentence,


A disease called ichthyosis turn human skin scaly as a fishs this disease

is hereditary.

Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Abbreviations,

Adjective (Comparative/Superlative)

With 90,000 victims each year the state of N.Y. has the most high rate of

cancer in the U.S.

Numbers, Capitalization, Parentheses

Did you know that 1 out of every 4 americans about 73,000,000 people

will get cancer during his or her lifetime?

Using the Right Word, Comma (Unnecessary)

They’re are more then 50,000 earthquakes in the world, each year.


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WEEK 17: Think Before You Act

Subject-Verb Agreement, Adverb (Comparative/Superlative)

Action speak more louder than words.

Subject-Verb Agreement, Numbers, Adjective (Articles)

The only way to have an friend are to be 1.

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Using the Right Word,

Comma (Unnecessary)

He who loses their honesty, has nothing else too loose.

Double Negative, Subject-Verb Agreement, Apostrophe, Comma (Dialogue)

H. Spencer once said “No one can’t be perfectly happy til all is happy.”

Using the Right Word, Pronoun (Reflexive), Spelling

He whom flees proves his self gilty.

—Danish Proverb


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WEEK 18: Clever Thoughts

Apostrophe, Capitalization, Double Negative

Advice is something the Wise dont never need and Fools wont never take.

Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement

Everything has it’s beauty, but not everyone see it.

—Confucius

Comma (Series), Subject-Verb Agreement, Spelling

Boldness have genious power and magic in it.

Nonstandard Language, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Curiosity may of killed the cat, but satisfaction brought them back.


Verb (Tense)

Without friends no one wood chose to live.

—Greek Proverb


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WEEK 19: Geography Facts

Period, Comma (Dialogue), Quotation Marks

Mt Whitney Ms Williams reminded the class is the highest mountain in

the continental United States (apart from Alaska).

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Numbers, Capitalization, End Punctuation

wow, the empire state building has 10,000,000 bricks in their structure

Using the Right Word, Capitalization

The Caspian sea is actually a Lake that lays north of Iran.

Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Subject-Verb Agreement,

Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Abbreviations

Of all the states in our country AK have the most longest coastline and

the smallest population.

Subject-Verb Agreement, Capitalization, Spelling

The boot of italy looks as though it “kick” the iland of sicily.


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WEEK 20: Geographic Information

Verb (Tense), Capitalization, Comma (Numbers)

In the year 2050, paris is 2099 years old.

Plurals, Misplaced Modifier, Period

The face of Theodore Roosevelt wears eyeglass’s carved into Mt Rushmore.

Using the Right Word, Capitalization, Adjective (Articles)

Jamaica is a island that lays 90 miles South of Cuba.

Verb (Tense), Misplaced Modifier

All land masses according to one theory on the earth use to be part of

one big continent.

Comma (Appositives), Abbreviations, Using the Right Word

Jamaica an island of about 4,500 sq. mi. is just a little smaller then

Conn.


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WEEK 21: Overseas Facts

Verb (Irregular), Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Hyphen

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which taked up more than one

seventh of the earth’s land surface was once the largest country in the

world.

Abbreviations, Subject-Verb Agreement, Apostrophe (Possessives)

Over 25% of the worlds forests is in Siberia.

Using the Right Word, Adjective (Comparative/Superlative),

Run-On Sentence

China has the larger population of any country in the world more than a

billion people live their.

Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement, Double Negative

The persian gulf contain extremely salty water and isn’t hardly more than

100 feet deep at any point.

Capitalization, Comma (Unnecessary), Adjective (Articles)

The Persian Gulf oil spill of 1991, covered a area twice the size

of rhode island.


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WEEK 22: Size Isn’t Everything

Using the Right Word, Hyphen

The hole country of Israel is only one fourth the size of the state of

Maine.

Capitalization, Abbreviations, Double Subject, Numbers

The u.s. it could fit inside of africa at least 3 times.

Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Apostrophe, Capitalization

Although bangladesh has the eighth-largest population of any country its

only about the size of wisconsin.

Verb (Irregular), Numbers, Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives)

In eighteen sixty-seven, Secretary of State William Seward buyed the

oil rich state of Alaska for only $7.2 million.

Numbers, Using the Right Word, Capitalization

It is dark 24 hours a day four one hundred eighty-six days of the year at

the north pole.


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WEEK 23: Ancient Times

Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Verb (Tense)

Mesopotamians who lived in what is today called Iraq develop written

language around 3500 B.C.E.

Verb (Irregular), Numbers, Plurals

Egyptians first beginned preserving dead body in the form of mummies

around twenty-five hundred B.C.E.

Verb (Irregular), Capitalization, Colon

In 3000 b.c.e., the first adventure story was wrote about this warrior

gilgamesh.

Comma (Appositives and Unnecessary), Verb (Tense), Plurals

Hammurabi an ancient king, of Babylon in the eighteenth century B.C.E.,

develops the first code of law’s.

Using the Right Word, Wordy Sentence, Capitalization

Alexander the great conquered most of the known world, a lot of territory

needless to say, before he dyed in 323 b.c.e. at the age of 33.


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WEEK 24: World History

Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Subject-Verb Agreement

When Alexander the Great died his body were preserved in a big pot of

honey.

Capitalization, Sentence Fragment

In 982, Eric the Red the first viking colony in greenland.

Comma (Unnecessary), Numbers

The Mayan civilization discovered the concept of the number zero, and

developed mathematics around two hundred C.E.

Verb (Irregular), Capitalization, Comma (Between Independent Clauses),

Pronoun (Reflexive)

Constantine the Great was the first Roman emperor to declare his self a

christian and christianity then becomed legal in rome in 313.

Capitalization, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Plurals,


Marching to take over the holy city of Jerusalem almost 50,000 european

children lost there lifes in 1212.


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WEEK 25: European History

Using the Right Word, Verb (Irregular), Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives),

Wordy Sentence

The Hundred Years’ War, witch lasted from 1337 to 1453 and was 116

years long, was an English French conflict fighted for control of France.

Comma (Appositives and Series), Capitalization, Spelling

Joan of Arc a famus French Warrior in the Hundred Years’ War was

considered a heretic tried for this crime and burned at the Stake in 1431.

Using the Right Word, Comma (Appositives), Double Negative

In 1536, Henry VIII had his second wife Anne Boleyn killed because she

hadn’t never produced a mail air.

Rambling Sentence, Capitalization

elizabeth I was queen of England and she was completely bald at the age

of 29 and she always wore a red wig.

Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Subject-Verb Agreement

The first British theater known simply as The Theatre were built outside

London in 1576.


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WEEK 26: History Lessons

Comma (Numbers and Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Verb (Irregular),

Capitalization

The Great Plague breaked out in London in 1665 killing 75000 people

between july and october.

Capitalization, Using the Right Word, Comma (Appositives)

In 1718, a london lawyer James Puckle invented the vary first machine gun.

Comma (Appositives), Wordy Sentence

The Enlightenment a movement of the eighteenth century emphasized

rational thought and it encouraged thinking a lot.

Italics and Underlining, Run-On Sentence, Subject-Verb Agreement

The first encyclopedia, called Encyclopedie, were completed in France

in 1722 it was commonly referred to as the bible of the Enlightenment.

Using the Right Word, Capitalization, Verb (Tense), Pronoun (Reflexive)

In 1804, Haiti became the first black Nation too gain freedom for it when

it declares it’s independence from france.


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WEEK 27: Historical Feats

Verb (Tense), Capitalization, Comma (Between Independent Clauses),

Misplaced Modifier

In 1812, napoleon invaded Russia but only 20,000 will survive the russian

winter of his 60,000 men.

Comma (Unnecessary), Subject-Verb Agreement, Using the Right Word

Photography were invented buy French painter, Louis Daguerre, in 1839.

Comma (Appositives), Verb (Irregular), Italics and Underlining

In 1912, the Titanic the largest ocean liner of its time hit an iceberg and

sinked in the freezing northern waters of the Atlantic.

Abbreviations, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses)

In the year after World War I ended Adolf Hitler became a member of

Ger.’s Nazi Party.

Using the Right Word, Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses)

In 1971, Switzerland which is located at the southeastern border of

Germany became the last Western nation too give women the rite to vote.


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WEEK 28: Big Losses

Abbreviations, Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement

The national cancer institute say that 70% of the plants useful in treating

cancer come from rain forests.

Double Subject, Rambling Sentence

In 1680, dodo birds they became extinct and were not seen or heard from

again.

Using the Right Word, Quotation Marks, Verb (Irregular)

We were telled that “every day 40,000 children dye of hunger and

preventable disease.”

Capitalization, Abbreviations, Numbers

The 1988 drought in the U.S. cost the Nation more than one hundred

million tons of grain.

Using the Right Word, Double Subject, Numbers

The United States it looses three point five billion tons of topsoil each

year because of erosion.


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WEEK 29: Environmental Knowledge

Numbers, Abbreviations, Subject-Verb Agreement

100 lbs. of rainwater is needed to produce 1 pound of grain from the

earth.

Capitalization, Abbreviations, Subject-Verb Agreement, Spelling

The enviromental protection agency (epa) were founded in 1970.

Using the Right Word, Abbreviations

Over three billion gal. of petroleum are used buy the people of this world

every day.

Capitalization, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Plurals

If american’s carpooled regularly more than 600,000 gallons of gas could

be saved every day.

Using the Right Word, Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement

Did you no that the average American Office Worker throw away 180

pounds of paper every year?


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WEEK 30: Our Ecosystem


Abbreviations, Misplaced Modifier, Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives)

Too improve ground level heir quality smokestacks were introduced

in sum parts of the U.S. more than 200 feet high during the 1970s.

Using the Right Word, Semicolon, Verb (Irregular)

Vary tall smokestacks maid air safer to breathe but because pollutants

were picked up quickly by upper air currents, acid rain becomed even

more of a problem.

Capitalization, Using the Right Word, Apostrophe (Possessives), Abbreviations,

Numbers

Our Sci. teacher mentioned last weak that the Worlds population has

more then doubled since nineteen fifty.

Subject-Verb Agreement, Numbers, Comma (Series), Plurals

It has been estimated that Americans throws away twenty eight million

tons of branchs mowed grass and dead leaves every year.

Numbers, Subject-Verb Agreement, Using the Right Word

Americans uses about 8 times more fuel energy then people anywhere else

in the world.


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WEEK 31: Early American History

Comma (Series), Apostrophe (Possessives), Italics and Underlining

Christopher Columbus ships were the Nina the Pinta and the Santa

Maria.

Capitalization, Verb (Tense), Comma (Appositives)

In 1579, sir francis drake an english explorer sailed into the waters of

what is now san francisco bay and claims california for england.

Comma (Addresses), Using the Right Word, Abbreviations

The first black slaves were imported buy Jamestown VA in 1607.

Adjective (Articles), Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement

In 1634, maryland were founded as an catholic colony.

Using the Right Word, Comma (Unnecessary), Spelling

Roger Williams founded Providence, Rhode Island, as the first American

community too offer complete, religous freedom.


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WEEK 32: Our History

Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement, Comma (Unnecessary),

Capitalization, Apostrophe (Possessives)

Pennsylvania Quakers first protests, against Slavery was maid in 1688.

Numbers, Using the Right Word, Comma (Addresses)

19 people were executed in 1692 four practicing witchcraft in Salem

Massachusetts.

Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Using the Right Word,

Verb (Irregular), Capitalization

During the american revolution more colonists fighted on the side of

Britain then on the side of the colonies.

Comma (Dialogue and Interruptions), Quotation Marks, Capitalization

Mrs. Baxter stated in 1808, it became illegal at last to import slaves into

the United States.

Comma (Appositives), Italics and Underlining, Subject-Verb Agreement

The first Native American newspaper The Cherokee Phoenix were

published in 1828.


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WEEK 33: Some Women in American History

Comma (Appositives), Adjective (Articles), Numbers, Misplaced Modifier

Harriet Tubman a escaped slave freed in a raid in 1863 seven hundred

fifty slaves.

Verb (Tense), Spelling

Jane Adams receive the Nobel Prise for Peace in 1931.

Comma (Appositives and To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Capitalization,

Verb (Tense), Using the Right Word, Abbreviations

In 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte a member of the Omaha tribe graduate

from women’s medical college of PA becoming the first native american

woman to do sew and practice medicine in NE.

Verb (Irregular), Using the Right Word

In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor becomed the first woman too set on the

Supreme Court.

Sentence Fragment, Pronoun (Reflexive)

In 1916, Jeanette Rankin of Montana the first woman to get her elected

to Congress.


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WEEK 34: Modern American History

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses)

By a 1924 act of Congress all Native Americans received his United

States citizenship.

Comma (To Enclose Information), Period, Capitalization

Martin Luther King Jr was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1964.

Comma (Appositives), Subject-Verb Agreement, Capitalization

The Ku Klux Klan a secret society believing in white supremacy were

founded just after the civil war.

Abbreviations, Capitalization

During world war II, Pres. Roosevelt ordered 120,000 japanese americans

locked up in internment camps in the U.S.

Comma (Dates), Capitalization, Numbers

The first Nuclear reaction was triggered at the University of Chicago on

December 2 nineteen forty-two.


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WEEK 35: America’s Past

Comma Splice, Abbreviations, Adjective (Articles)

In 1953, the United States tested an hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific,

the explosion spread deadly radiation over 7,000 sq. mi.

Capitalization, Quotation Marks, Plurals, Spelling

our histery teacher told us that “at the outbreak of world war I, the

american Air Force consisted of only 50 mans.”

Nonstandard Language, Period, Comma (Interjections), Abbreviations

Yes my brother should of told me that John H Glenn was the first Amer.

to orbit Earth.

Capitalization, Double Subject

nixon he “opened” china in 1972 by becoming the first american president

to visit that nation.

Numbers, Capitalization

300,000 marchers visited Washington, D.C., in the Spring of 1971 to

protest the vietnam war.

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