Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on African-American music. This is the last Everyday Edit worksheet I have that’s appropriate to post for Black History Month. However, if you’d like more of these worksheets, you can find them at Education World, where the generous proprietors of that site give away a yearlong supply of them.
If you find typos in this document, your students should fix them! That’s the point of this exercise….
Were you aware that Charles R. Drew, a black man, discovered that blood plasma could last over time if it were kept cool? I wasn’t until I began using this Everyday Edit worksheet on him about ten years ago. If you’d like more of these, you can find them at Education World, where you can actually take for free a whole year’s supply of them.
If you find typos in this document, fix them, for heaven’s sake! It’s an Everyday Edit worksheet….
OK, it’s time for me to get out of here this afternoon. Before I go, here is and Everyday Edit worksheet on the Montgomery Bus Boycott. If you and your students like this document, you can get a yearlong supply of them from the good people over at Education World.
And if you find typos in this worksheet…fix them! That’s what it’s for.
Alright, I’ll wrap up today with this Everyday Edit worksheet on Olympic legend Jesse Owens. If you like this worksheet, or the many others of them I’ve posted in observance of Black History Month 2020, you should click on over to Education world, where you’ll find a yearlong supply of Everyday Edits available…for free!
You will find typos in this document: that’s the point! Be sure your students catch–and correct–them.
Alright, it’s soon time for me to leave. Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Kwanzaa. If you like using Everyday Edits in your classroom then you are in luck: Education World will give you a yearlong supply of them on a broad range of topics.
If you find typos in this document, fix them! It’s an Everyday Edit!
Moving right along, here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Booker T. Washington for Black History Month 2020. If you’d like more worksheets like this one, head on over to Education World, where the good people who operate give away a year’s supply of them.
You will find typos in this document–that’s the point of it. Copyedit and repair faults!
[If you’d like this quote in Microsoft Word to use as a learning support, you’ll find that here.]
“Place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause.
The early records of the city have disappeared, and the story of its first years can no longer be reconstructed.
The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
Two part sentences of which the second member is introduced by as (in the sense of “because”), for, or , nor, or while (in the sense of “and at the same time”) likewise require a comma before the conjunction.
If a dependent clause, or an introductory phrase requiring to be set off with a comma, precedes the second independent clause, no comma is needed after the conjunction.
The situation is perilous, but if we are prepared to act promptly, there is still one chance of escape.
When the subject is the same for both clauses and is expressed only once, a comma is useful if the connective is but. When the connective is and, the comma should be omitted if the relation between the two statements is close or immediate.
I have heard the arguments, but I am still unconvinced.
He has several years experience and is thoroughly competent.”
Excerpted from: Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000.
Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Thurgood Marshall. If you want more of these, check with the eleemosynary spirits at Education World, who give away a year’s supply of them at their site.
My usual caution and entreaty on typos doesn’t apply here: there are a number of spelling, grammar and punctuation errors on each of these worksheets; the task is to fix them.
OK, let’s wrap up this Tuesday with an Everyday Edit worksheet on the Juneteenth holiday in observance of Black History Month 2020. Incidentally, if you like these kinds of exercises, the good people at Education World will gladly hand over a year’s supply of them for free.
And if you find typos in this document, fix them! It’s an Everyday Edit worksheet, after all.
Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on the Tuskegee Airmen. As I say every time I post one of these documents, if you and your students like them, the good people at Education World generously give away a yearlong supply of them.
And if you find typos on this document, well, that’s the purpose of them; edit and repair as needed!
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