DOL Week 29 Guidelines
DOL Week 29 Day 1
DOL Week 29 Day 2
DOL Week 29 Day 3
The Sahara Desert
The Sahara Desert
All ten DOL Sentences are due at the end of each week. This assignment is a test grade.
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DOL Tests are scored:
1 error = B (85%)
2 errors = C (75%)
3 errors = D (65%)
4 or more errors = F (59%)
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Guidelines for DOL Week 29:
This Week's Spelling Rule:
Contractions
we're (1), it's (4), doesn't (5), she'd (8), where's (9) didn't (EQ)
Capitalization:
Proper nouns: people and animals (10); places (1,2,3,4,5,EQ); days and holidays (7); titles of people (7)
Proper adjectives: (2)
Punctuation:
Periods: with abbreviated titles (7,10)
Commas: for items in a series (3, 6, EQ); with appositives (1, EQ)
Quotation marks: with direct quotations (9); with questions and exclamations (9)
Semicolons: in compound sentences (5, 10)
Grammar:
Pronoun case: before nouns (8)
Pronouns: order of (7)
Sentence fragments: (2, EQ)
Run-on Sentences: (3, 10)
Agreement: of subjects and verbs (5, 6); with compound subjects (10)
Comparison: comparative degree (4); superlative degree (1); irregular comparison (9)
Double negatives: (EQ)
Commonly confused words: to, two, too (10); their, they're, and there (EQ)
Demonstrative adjectives: with singular and plural nouns (2)
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DOL Tests are scored:
1 error = B (85%)
2 errors = C (75%)
3 errors = D (65%)
4 or more errors = F (59%)
_______________________________
Guidelines for DOL Week 29:
This Week's Spelling Rule:
Contractions
we're (1), it's (4), doesn't (5), she'd (8), where's (9) didn't (EQ)
Capitalization:
Proper nouns: people and animals (10); places (1,2,3,4,5,EQ); days and holidays (7); titles of people (7)
Proper adjectives: (2)
Punctuation:
Periods: with abbreviated titles (7,10)
Commas: for items in a series (3, 6, EQ); with appositives (1, EQ)
Quotation marks: with direct quotations (9); with questions and exclamations (9)
Semicolons: in compound sentences (5, 10)
Grammar:
Pronoun case: before nouns (8)
Pronouns: order of (7)
Sentence fragments: (2, EQ)
Run-on Sentences: (3, 10)
Agreement: of subjects and verbs (5, 6); with compound subjects (10)
Comparison: comparative degree (4); superlative degree (1); irregular comparison (9)
Double negatives: (EQ)
Commonly confused words: to, two, too (10); their, they're, and there (EQ)
Demonstrative adjectives: with singular and plural nouns (2)
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