Monday, March 31, 2014

Ameliorate Horatio Alger

Directions: students should grammatically correct the sentece below, in red. Look for five missing commas and several misused words.

Horatio Alger, Jr.  was a gilded age american author best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boy's and they're rise from humble backgrounds too lives of security and comfort thru hard work determination courage and honesty.




interactive image of Horatio Alger books



Suggested Answer: 
Horatio Alger, Jr.  was a Gilded Age American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Ameliorate the Triangle ShirtWaist Factory

Directions: students should correct the error filled sentences below, in red. There are three missing commas and a punctuation error.

The Triangle Factory fire which happened on March 25 1911 was one of the deadliest industrial disaster's in the history of new york city.



Link to INTERACTIVE Teaching
Suggested Answer: 
The Triangle Factory fire, which happened on March 25, 1911, was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in the history of New York City.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Ameliorate the Dawes Act

Directions: correct the following sentences. .

while intended to assimilate Indians into white culture the Dawes Act of 1887 was the culmination of American attempt's two open Indian lands two settlement by non-Indians and two development by railroads



Link to ASSIMILATION of INDIANS : Visual RESOURCES 

Suggested Answer:
 While intended to assimilate Indians into white culture, the Dawes Act of 1887 was the culmination of American attempts to open Indian lands to settlement by non-Indians and to development by railroads. 

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Ameliorate the Holocaust

Directions: students should grammatically correct the following sentence(s), in red. There are two missing commas, misspelled words, and several capitalization errors.

The holocaust was the systematic bureaucratic state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million jews by the nazi regime and it's collaborators.
video




Suggested Answer: 
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Ameliorate Uncle Tom's Cabin

Directions: grammatically correct the following sentence,in red. There are three missing commas and several capitalization errors.

harriet beecher stowe's best known novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) changed forever how Americans viewed slavery the system that treated people as property.


video about Harriet Beecher Stowe
a link to ART Analysis

Suggested Answer:

Harriet Beecher Stowe's best known novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), changed forever how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property.