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Passage 4

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  1. at least you have some magic even if it is always a disaster isabelleingenuous reminded her freind as she twirled the purple butterfly that perched in her mane of auburn hare and the rest of us cant even open a classroom portal she concluded suddenly right in front of this sextet stood a tall man who was dressed all in black with a shiny new black hat perched on his slick black hair he peered down at the group and boomed in a loud monotone voice welcome to horribly hard middle school the frightening man then announced that he was the dean of the school and his name was dean dread Eight Extra Credit Points: Correct the “Caught Ya!” error, define the five bold words, underline the sentence with the compound predicate (verbs), and circle the prefix that means “ away; without.” Passage 4

  2. Indent paragraph x2 • New topic • New speaker • Quotation marks around dialogue x3 • Capitalize the first word of a sentence x6 • Capitalize proper nouns x8 • Punctuation inside quotation marks x2 • Run-On sentences x4 • Separate into 2 sentences • Separate with comma and conjunction • Separate with semi-colon • End punctuation x5 • Homophones (hare, hair) • Don’t begin sentence with FANBOYS • Comma after introductory adverbial word • Apostrophe in contraction • Parallel construction (that) ¶“At least you have some magic even if it is always a disaster,” Isabelle Ingenuous reminded herfriend as she twirled the purple butterfly that perched in her mane of auburnhair. “The rest of us can’t even open a classroom portal,”she concluded. ¶Suddenly, right in front of this sextet,stood a tall man who was dressed all in black with a shiny, new, black hat perched on his slick black hair.He peered down at the group and boomed in a loud,monotonous voice,“Welcome to Horribly Hard Middle School.” The frightening man then announced that he was the dean of the school and that his name was Dean Dread. • Extra Credit: • Add an extra check to the Caught Ya! error if you got it right on your own. • Vocabulary • mane(n.) long, thick hair • portal(n.) a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance • sextet(v.) a group of six • monotonous (adj.) a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone • dread(adj.) greatly feared; frightful; terrible • Underline the sentence with the compound predicate (verbs). • Circle the prefix that means “away, without.” Disaster means ill-starred. In ancient Greece, when bad luck happened, it was blamed on an unfavorable position of a planet or star in astrology. A favorable planet was too far away. Passage 4 Errors: 38

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