English IVAugust 27, 2014

Bell-Ringer

Identify and correct the ten mistakes in the following paragraph:◦Agnes Bojaxhiu were born in Macedonia on

August 27, 1910 when Agnes turned eighteen years old, she joined a community of nuns and moved to Calcutta India. There she was nown as Mother Teresa. While teaching at St. Marys High School, Mother Teresa caught a glimps of how Calcutta’s poorest people lived. Soon she devoded her life to working in the citys slums. That work earned her the Nobel Piece Prize in 1979.

Learning Targets

I can use correct punctuation, capitalization, and spelling when writing.

I can write effective sentences, using parallel structures.

Activity

“Short Assignments”◦Take 15 minutes to read and annotate this passage.

◦After reading and annotating, answer the following: What is the main idea of this passage? How can the advice in this excerpt be useful not only for writing but also for other aspects of life?

Share a few responses.