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CAPITALIZATION
CAPITAL LETTERSCapital letters are about twice the height of lowercase letters. Some of you need to work on your handwriting. Some problems I noticed:
• Not distinguishing properly between capital and lowercase letters
• Lowercase letters that fill up the entire space • Stray marks between letters. (Use a legible pen that
doesn’t stray.) • Writing that is too light to read or of uneven weight/
darkness (Don’t write essays in pencil.)• Writing that is so small that it is difficult to articulate
distinguishing marks of individual letters, especially vowels. (also r vs v)
• Uncrossed T’s, disconnected loops as with a, o, b, and d
COLLECT WORDS WITH CAPITAL LET TERS
Exclude words that are the first word of a sentence.
Write words you find with capital letters on a sticky note.
Any time you find words that go together as a unit, put
them all together on one sticky note.
If a capitalized word is the first word of dialogue or a
quotation, you must record the quotation marks before
the word to show this.
Lucky Trimble crouched in a wedge of shade behind the Dumpster. Her ear
near a hole in the paint-chipped wall of Hard Pan’s Found Object Wind Chime
Museum and Visitor Center, she listened as Short Sammy told the story of how
he hit rock-bottom. How he quit drinking and found his Higher Power. Short
Sammy’s story, of all the rock-bottom stories Lucky had heard at twelve-step
anonymous meetings—alcoholics, gamblers, smokers, and overeaters—was still
her favorite.
Sammy told of the day when he had drunk half a gallon of rum listening to
Johnny Cash all morning in his parked ‘62 Cadillac, then fallen out of the car
when he saw a rattlesnake on the passenger seat biting his dog, Roy.
- Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky (2006)
COLLECT WORDS WITH CAPITAL LET TERS
The girl crouched in a
wedge of shade behind the
large, metal trash
container. Her ear near a
hole in the paint-chipped wall
of the museum, she listened
as the short man told the
story of how he hit rock-
bottom.
Lucky Trimble crouched
in a wedge of shade behind
the Dumpster. Her ear near
a hole in the paint-chipped
wall of Hard Pan’s Found
Object Wind Chime
Museum and Visitor
Center, she listened as
Short Sammy told the story
of how he hit rock-bottom.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
COLLECT WORDS WITH CAPITAL LET TERS
Exclude words that are the first word of a sentence.
Write words you find with capital letters on a sticky note.
Any time you find words that go together as a unit, put
them all together on one sticky note.
If a capitalized word is the first word of dialogue or a
quotation, you must record the quotation marks before
the word to show this.
CATEGORIZE T HE CAPITALIZED W ORD S YOU COLLECT ED IN TO GROUPS.
WORDS THAT NEED CAPITAL LET TERS
Proper nouns (specific names of people, places, cultures,
and brand names)
The pronoun I
Proper adjectives (proper nouns used as adjectives)
Titles (books, songs, TV shows, movies, poems)
First word of a direct quotation
Titles used before a person’s name
Initialisms (DVD)
SHOULD WE CAPITALIZE?
Plant
Tree
Oak Tree
The Jerry Lee Martin Memorial Oak
Tree
SHOULD WE CAPITALIZE?
President
President Washington
We watched the President on TV.
SHOULD WE CAPITALIZE?
Doctor
Doctor Jackson
“Tell me the truth, Doctor. How
much time do I have?”
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
All week I worked hard, for
I knew when friday came we
would finally get to put on
the pads.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
Finally it was time to head
to huntsville, tx were my visit
would begin.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
There were many plans to
do, She moved the date until
May instead of March.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
My Senior Class was the
first class at my school to
have a senior field day.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
I ended up in the Hospital
for three days to run test.
It turned out I was great
thanks to the grace of god.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
I couldn’t wait to hit
someone and feel the
Adrinline run through my
body.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
Attending Church was very
important to me because
without God I would not have
made it this far in life.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
My Mom found out She was pregnant.
My mom just popped out the words,
“i’m pregnant,” that moment In my life
was so happy.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
“Down, set, hut” The
Quarterback yelled out as I
took off on my route.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
“OH MY GOSH!” I
screamed
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
“I wonder what we’ve done
this time,” I mumbled to my
friend Jeni. “Who knows?”
She replied.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
What a magical experience
for anyone that was 17!
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
Instead, they won three tickets to
the Chicago Bulls versus the Boston
Celtics.
I was so excited to see Michael
Jordan play.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
A significant event in my life
would have to be when I found
out that I was graduatin- g from
Humble High.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
That was my life changing
story.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
On August 12, 2008, my
mom gave birth to my little
brother, and that was the most
significant thing in my life.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
Attend the University of
Sam Houston St.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
My cousin decided to play “I SPY” to
make the trip more fun.
After a while we finally made it to the
theme park “Six Flags Over Texas.”
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
June 8th, 2009, I was on my
way to Arlington, Texas for a
family vacation to Six Flags
Over Texas.
WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
There were things wrong with this story (the biggest hole was probably Roger’s
failure to simply start over with a different glue), but it was cute, it was fairly
original, and I knew I has done some pretty good writing. After a long time spent
studying the markets in my beat-up Writer’s Digest, I sent “Happy Stamps” off to
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. It came back three weeks later with a form
rejection slip attached. This slip bore Alfred Hitchcock’s unmistakable profile in
red ink and wished me good luck with my story. At the bottom was an unsigned
jotted message, the only personal response I got from AHMM over eight years of
periodic submissions. “Don’t staple manuscripts,” the postscript read. “Loose
pages plus paperclip equal correct way to submit copy.” This was pretty cold
advice, I thought, but useful in its way. I have never stapled a manuscript since.
- Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2001)