Download Rick's Handouts Administrative Semester Calendar Card (information to fill out) Class Writing Procedures Course Outline Composition and Writing Capitalization Rules Comma Rules Punctuation and Capitalization- 24 quizzes/8 Q's each Punctuation and Capitalization Story #1 Punctuation and Capitalization Story #1 Answer Key Punctuation and Capitalization Test- 24 Q's The First Thanksgiving (punctuation exercise) The First Thanksgiving Answer Key Punctuation and Capitalization Story #3 Transition Words and Phrases (Linkers) Relating Ideas with Transition Words (exercise) Relating Ideas with Transition Words (Answer Key) Sentence Combining Emotional Memories (questions to talk or write about) Rick's Experiences (a composition that uses both past tense and present perfect) The Expository Essay (The Joy of Mass Transportation) A Revised Composition (for The Joy of Mass Transportation) The Expository Essay: Ten Possible Angles (Capital Punishment) Johanna Biographies (ESL099.3351) Partner Biographies (ESL099.3351) 65 Interview Questions for Partner Biographies Dating Service Questions and Vocabulary from eHarmony.com Verb + Infinitive Questions (writing about Educational Goals) My Educational History (a narrative essay) Error Tracking Sheet Halloween Story: A Night on Brickmore Hill [Finish the story, and make it scary.] Have You Ever...? (Present Perfect questions for a partner) Rick's Experiences Hopes and Dreams (focus: verb + gerund/verb + infinitive) Job Interview Advice- group research and writing project A Troubled Teen (write a story for a PBS After School Special) Mary's Problems (write a caseworker review about a woman in need of social services) Marsha's Terrible Job Interview (focus: should(n't) have and unreal conditionals) NYC: A Great Place to Raise Kids, a prompt for an expository essay NYC: A Great Place to Raise Kids, a guided essay, with topic sentences provided NYC: A Terrible Place to Raise Kids, an essay to disagree with, by "Dick Downer" Pat the Pencil, a fantasy "biography" writing activity A Letter from Rick's Resort- narrative letter E.T.- Discussion Questions for Writing The Expensive Creamsicle- A Time I Regret What Should Be Done About Media Violence? (a suggested approach to writing an opinion essay) Computer Information & Activities Attaching Files to E-Mail Bad Comp!- an editing and spell-checking exercise Cutting and Pasting Instructions Vacation (cutting extraneous paragraphs) Scrambled Letter (moving paragraphs by cutting and pasting) Finding and Replacing Instructions Making Accented/Foreign Characters with the Alt Key Patrick-Patricia- a find and replace exercise Guess What cover page Guess What program instructions [Guess What free software download page] Making Headers and Footers Using Hotmail for E-mail Moving the Cursor May Mutter: A Fanny Spiel Czech-Or Eggs-Her-Size Old MacDonald- advanced word-processing exercise Dictations Diagnostic Dictation [20 questions, with many spelling demons] Comparative/Superlative Fill-In Dictation Comparative/Superlative Fill-In Dictation Answer Key Passive Dictation #1 (104 words) Passive Dictation #2 (174 words) Grammar & Vocabulary Information and Exercises Participial "Emotion" Adjectives (ed/ing) Adverbs of Frequency: Rules and List Adverbs of Frequency: Exercise Adverbs and Adjectives: Rules for Spelling and Usage Adverb or Adjective #1: Exercise Animals and Their Sounds: Agreement Comparative and Superlative Adjective Rules Indefinite Articles (a, an, some) Hard and Soft Negatives Passive Voice Information Passive Situations (exercise) Plural Forms: Spelling Rules Singular to Plural Sentence Conversion Quiz Rules for Prepositions: In, On, At, To Present Perfect Rules (with two dialogs) Dear Bobby (present perfect or simple past fill-in) Dear Bobby Answer Key (present perfect or simple past fill-in) Dear Mary (present perfect or simple past fill-in) Dear Mary Answer Key (present perfect or simple past fill-in) Pronouns and Possessives Exercise(Ben Franklin's Letters) How to Form Questions (Y/N & Info) Relative and Noun Clauses Rules Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses (exercise on "extra information" relative clauses, which need commas) Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses KEY Reported Speech Rules Reported Speech Exercise #1: Dad's Not Coming Home for Dinner Reported Speech Exercise #1: Suggested Answers Reported Speech Exercise #2: A Bad Student Reported Speech Exercise #2: Suggested Answers Reported Speech Exercise #3: The Morning After Reported Speech Exercise #3: Suggested Answers Reported Speech Exercise #4: The Unhappy Mother-In-Law Reported Speech Exercise #4: Suggested Answers Spelling Rules (doubling, dropping e, changing y to i) Spelling Quiz (ING Form, Past Tense) Spelling Quiz Key Unreal Conditionals: Rules for Present and Past (with a few exercises) Wish and Hope Rules (unreal and real conditions with wish vs. hope, 20 exercises) Wish and Hope exercise KEY Unreal Present (17 situations from which to make if...would statements) Unreal Present KEY Past Unreal Examples (statements made by Americans, taken from the Internet) Unreal Past (17 situations from which to make if...would have statements) Unreal Past KEY 100 Important Irregular Verbs (past & past participle list) Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs: Rules and List Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs #1: Easy Exercise Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs #2: Advanced Exercise Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs Fill-In Exercise Verb + Base Form List Verb + Gerund List Verb+Gerund Questions (questions with a verb+gerund focus) 52 Verbs Followed by Infinitives Verb+Infinitive Questions (questions with a verb+infinitive, about "Educational Goals") Verb Quizzes All About Electing a President (agreement exercise, verbs with or without s) All About Electing a President (KEY) Verb Combination Quiz- Rick's Resort (verb + base, gerund, or infinitive form) Verb Combination Quiz- Rick's Resort (KEY) Verb Combination Quiz- My Educational History (verb + base, gerund, or infinitive form) Verb Combination Quiz- My Educational History (KEY) Reading Christmas Songs (secular and religious) Cinco de Mayo (two readings and a comprehension quiz) KEY: 1b, 2d, 3a, 4c, 5c, 6d, 7b, 8c, 9b, 10a, 11a, 12d, 13c, 14c Constitution of the United States Declaration of Independence Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" ("I have a dream" excerpt) Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" (entire speech) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address The Story of Halloween To Serve Man- a Halloween story Lyrics from most Musical Comedies, plus Beatles and Spanish songs

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