1. Engage: Bring students eyes to the comedic example of a comma splice.
2. Explore: Why is this sentence a comma splice?
What do we typically think of when we think of a run-on sentence?
Examples of run-on sentences:
Seth ate a hamburger he had no bread or ketchup.
I can't get rid of my hiccups I think I'm going to scream.
You smell really bad take a bath.
3. Explain: I will define and discuss how to correct these types of sentence boo-boos.
4. Explore: Students will write one comma splice and one run-on sentence each and correct them.
5. Evaluate: Students will correct the sentences with me on the board.
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I appreciate the mini-lesson on "Comma Splices..." because I actually learned valuable information that I can routinely use. I learned that a semi-colon comes before the word "so" when you're connecting two seperate thoughts in a sentence. I guess I was just throwing "sos" anywhere I wanted to throw them before, huh? :-)
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