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WEEK 1: Ball Games
Comma (Appositives), Capitalization
jackie robinson the first African American major-league baseball player
played his first game with the brooklyn dodgers in 1947.
Run-On Sentence, Comma (Dates)
Until April 8 1974 Babe Ruth held the American record for home runs he
held the record for bases on balls until April 26 2001.
Capitalization, End Punctuation, Using the Right Word, Comma (Numbers)
Would you believe that over 7000 years ago Ancient Egyptians liked to
bowl on alleys alot like ours
Capitalization, Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses),
Using the Right Word
the Cleveland Indians are named after Louis Sockolexis whom was the
first native american to play professional baseball.
Using the Right Word, Plurals
Golf ball’s used to be little feather pillows maid of leather.
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WEEK 2: Sports History
Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Using the Right Word,
Rambling Sentence
In the 1700s and 1800s in Peru bullfighters were women, which fought
bulls while riding horseback and that was also the time when the major
breeds of fighting bulls were developed.
Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives), Verb (Irregular), Comma (Addresses)
The first modern day Olympic Games taked place in Athens Greece in 1896.
Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Using the Right Word, Capitalization
when he began playing pool for exercise louis XIV made the game vary
popular in France.
Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Verb (Irregular), Plurals
Before players begun wearing safety gear football produced so many
injurys that colleges often banned the game.
Subject-Verb Agreement, Abbreviations, Numbers, Colon or Dash
Jerry Rice hold the nfl record for touchdowns two hundred five.
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WEEK 3: Sports Facts
Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement, Dash
Until 1892, all professional boxing matches was slugged out with bear
fists no gloves.
Using the Right Word, Capitalization, Period, Spelling
In 1867, william a cummings through the first curveball in Baseball
histery.
Verb (Irregular), Using the Right Word, Numbers
In 1981, baseball players gone on strike for seven weaks, and
seven hundred thirteen games across the country were canceled.
Comma (Numbers and Unnecessary), Capitalization
pete rose retired, in 1985, with 4256 hits to his credit.
Subject-Verb Agreement, Comma (To Separate Adjectives), Interjection
Wow About 25 million hollow rubber tennis balls is put into play every
year.
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WEEK 4: Instant Replay
Using the Right Word, Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement
wood you believe that bricklaying are the traditional trade of those whom
most often become spanish bullfighters?
Double Subject, Wordy Sentence
Emmitt Smith he holds the NFL record for the most yards rushing in a
career, and no one has ever made more than he has.
Subject-Verb Agreement, Using the Right Word, End Punctuation
Until 2001, Babe Ruth were walked more then any other baseball player?
Verb (Irregular), Capitalization, Combining Sentences
reggie jackson swinged like a dynamo. Reggie hit three home runs in the
final game of the 1977 world series.
Capitalization, Using the Right Word, Numbers, Verb (Tense)
ty cobb is the 1st player excepted into the baseball hall of fame.
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WEEK 5: Potpourri
Apostrophe, Using the Right Word, Hyphen
Ill bet you didnt no that youll sleep through one third of you’re life.
Subject-Verb Agreement, Capitalization
canned foods was first developed in order to feed napoleon’s army.
Wordy Sentence, Pronoun (Reflexive)
In China, brides traditionally adorn their selves in bright red, putting on
crimson apparel.
Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Sentence Fragment,
Adverb (Comparative/Superlative), Capitalization
during the middle ages in england beer oftenest served with breakfast.
Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement
ancient rock drawings proves that Horse Racing is at least 3,000 years
old.
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WEEK 6: Animal Facts
Using the Right Word, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses)
When a dessert lizard senses danger it vibrates too instantly sink beneath
the sand.
Comma (Direct Address), Subject-Verb Agreement, End Punctuation,
Parentheses
Juan did you know that some kinds of wasps for example, mud daubers
builds nests out of mud
Numbers, Using the Right Word, Capitalization, Combining Sentences
a Queen bee can live for 5 years. She can lie millions of eggs.
Using the Right Word, Comma (Numbers), Subject-Verb Agreement
Wood you believe a caterpillar have about 4000 muscles in it’s body?
Comma Splice, Comma (Between Independent Clauses), Verb (Tense)
Catfish are sort of weird, they didn’t have scales but they did have
whiskers.
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WEEK 7: Amazing Critters
Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement, Pronoun (Reflexive),
Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses)
Using it’s lungs to breathe the walking catfish move themself over land
from one body of water to another.
Apostrophe (Possessives), Comma Splice, Using the Right Word
A mosquitos wings beat about 1,000 times a second, an annoying hum
comes from it’s beating wings.
Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives), Using the Right Word, Numbers
A full grown lion can eat seventy-five pounds of meet in one meal.
Using the Right Word, Comma (Between Independent Clauses)
Male lions way several hundred pounds and are vary strong but they
prefer to stay home with the cubs while the females do the hunting.
Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives), Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement,
Comma (To Separate Adjectives), Subject-Verb Agreement
When a llama get mad, it spits thick bad smelling saliva into their
enemy’s face.
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WEEK 8: Animal Crackers
Subject-Verb Agreement, Numbers
Lobsters walks around on 8 legs just as spiders do.
Using the Right Word, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses),
Abbreviations, Adjective (Articles)
Only an fraction of an inch long at berth lobsters may grow to way as
much as 20 lbs.
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Subject-Verb Agreement, End Punctuation,
Using the Right Word
A baby squirrel is born with it’s eyes closed, and they keep them closed
four about a month
Using the Right Word, Comma (Between Independent Clauses),
Double Negative
Starfish don’t have no legs but they can creep around on alot of little
tube feet.
Abbreviations, Wordy Sentence, Using the Right Word
A beaver can swim half a mile and hold it’s breath for 15 min., which is
a quarter of an hour.
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WEEK 9: Birds and Bears
Using the Right Word, Numbers, Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses)
Polar bares can run about thirty-five miles per hour which is as fast as
lions can run.
Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Subject-Verb Agreement, Semicolon
The most largest bird is the ostrich it weigh as much as 300 pounds.
Apostrophe, Double Subject, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Numbers
Ostriches they cant fly, but it can run as fast as forty miles per hour.
Parentheses, Numbers
The bee hummingbird about 2 inches long builds a nest the size of half a
walnut shell.
Numbers, Colon or Dash, End Punctuation
A bird called the arctic tern migrates from the North Pole to the
South Pole and back again each year about twenty-two thousand miles
round-trip
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WEEK 10: Creature Features
Using the Right Word, Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives), End Punctuation
Did you no that human beings are the longest living mammals in the
world
Subject-Verb Agreement, Pronoun (Reflexive), Verb (Tense)
One way a shark protects its own self are with skin so rough that
humans once harvests it to use as sandpaper.
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Subject-Verb Agreement,
Comma (Unnecessary), Using the Right Word, Adjective (Articles)
It is a mail sea horse, that carries the eggs in a pouch until it hatches.
Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Parallelism
The elephant seal is the most largest type of seal, growing as long as 21
feet and it weighs as much as 8,000 pounds.
Comma (Interjections and Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses),
Using the Right Word, End Punctuation
Really are rhinoceros horns which both male and female rhinoceros have
maid of hardened hare
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WEEK 11: Creatures Great and Small
Using the Right Word, Apostrophe, Double Negative, Spelling
Poison works good in controling rat populations because rats cant never
vomit.
Comma (Unnecessary), Using the Right Word, End Punctuation, Interjection,
Capitalization
Yikes if you get a horned toad angry, it will squirt blood, from it’s eyes
Using the Right Word, Abbreviations, Numbers, Capitalization
A typical Hen lies about two hundred twenty-five eggs in 1 yr.
Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Subject-Verb Agreement
Dolphins is considered one of the mostly intelligent creatures on this
earth.
Quotation Marks, Using the Right Word
Lions say hello buy butting there heads.
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WEEK 12: Science on the Move
Numbers, Abbreviations, Using the Right Word
Blood actually is thicker then H2O . . . 6 times thicker.
Comma (Appositives), Adjective (Comparative/Superlative)
Pluto the most small planet in our solar system travels around the sun
every 248 years.
Numbers, Wordy Sentence, Apostrophe, Parentheses
It takes the moon a little more than twenty-seven day’s about a month to
orbit Earth and go all the way around it.
End Punctuation, Hyphen, Abbreviations
Is the moon moving away from Earth at a rate of one half in. per year
Using the Right Word, Numbers
Earth moves threw space at sixty-six thousand seven hundred miles per
hour.
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WEEK 13: Scientifically Speaking
Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Nonstandard Language,
Subject-Verb Agreement
If you had read the assignment you would of discovered that skin are the
largest organ of the human body.
Using the Right Word, Parallelism
You’re sense of smell is the first sense to go to sleep at night and the
last one that wakes up in the mourning.
Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Comma (Appositives)
The most hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone or mandible.
Comma Splice, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses),
Adjective (Comparative/Superlative)
Because it is the most fast planet in our solar system Mercury has the
shortest year, it’s only 88 days long.
Capitalization, Comma (Appositives and To Separate Adjectives)
Albert einstein a brilliant german-born physicist discovered that the force
of Gravity can bend light.
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WEEK 14: Science Research
Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Using the Right Word
The skin on your eyelid is more thinner then the skin anywhere else on
you’re body.
Capitalization, Colon or Dash, Adjective (Articles)
In 1851, a french scientist named jean foucault discovered a important
fact of astronomy the earth rotates.
Using the Right Word, Verb (Tense), Spelling
In 1602, the first successful stomack surgery was performed on a sword
swallower whom has swallowed a dagger.
Quotation Marks, Comma (Direct Address), Interjection, End Punctuation,
Capitalization
Listen class do you know that the planet Jupiter is so big that each of
the other planets could fit inside of it Mr. Grim asked.
Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Misplaced Modifier,
Subject-Verb Agreement
Each day meteor dust drift down to Earth about a thousand tons of it.
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WEEK 15: Scientific Observations
Capitalization, Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement
Goat’s milk are easier two digest then Cow’s milk, so it is often used for
baby food.
Comma (Series), Capitalization, Apostrophe (Possessives)
Mercury venus mars and pluto resemble our planets size chemical
composition and density.
Verb (Tense), Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Albert Einstein discovered that the faster things move, the heavier it
became.
Comma Splice, Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement, Spelling
The cucumber and the tomato isn’t vegatables, there fruits.
Double Negative, Pronoun (Reflexive), Semicolon
A redwood tree won’t never burn because its bark is so thick the tree
protects it from fire this way.
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WEEK 16: Proof Positive
Parallelism, Comma (Series), Run-On Sentence, Adjective (Articles)
Honey is sweet, nutritious, and spoilage is never a problem it’s an favorite
food of bears badgers and humans like it, too!
Subject-Verb Agreement, Apostrophe (Possessives), Run-On Sentence,
Using the Right Word
A disease called ichthyosis turn human skin scaly as a fishs this disease
is hereditary.
Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Abbreviations,
Adjective (Comparative/Superlative)
With 90,000 victims each year the state of N.Y. has the most high rate of
cancer in the U.S.
Numbers, Capitalization, Parentheses
Did you know that 1 out of every 4 americans about 73,000,000 people
will get cancer during his or her lifetime?
Using the Right Word, Comma (Unnecessary)
They’re are more then 50,000 earthquakes in the world, each year.
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WEEK 17: Think Before You Act
Subject-Verb Agreement, Adverb (Comparative/Superlative)
Action speak more louder than words.
Subject-Verb Agreement, Numbers, Adjective (Articles)
The only way to have an friend are to be 1.
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Using the Right Word,
Comma (Unnecessary)
He who loses their honesty, has nothing else too loose.
Double Negative, Subject-Verb Agreement, Apostrophe, Comma (Dialogue)
H. Spencer once said “No one can’t be perfectly happy til all is happy.”
Using the Right Word, Pronoun (Reflexive), Spelling
He whom flees proves his self gilty.
—Danish Proverb
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WEEK 18: Clever Thoughts
Apostrophe, Capitalization, Double Negative
Advice is something the Wise dont never need and Fools wont never take.
Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement
Everything has it’s beauty, but not everyone see it.
—Confucius
Comma (Series), Subject-Verb Agreement, Spelling
Boldness have genious power and magic in it.
Nonstandard Language, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Curiosity may of killed the cat, but satisfaction brought them back.
Using the Right Word, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses),
Verb (Tense)
Without friends no one wood chose to live.
—Greek Proverb
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WEEK 19: Geography Facts
Period, Comma (Dialogue), Quotation Marks
Mt Whitney Ms Williams reminded the class is the highest mountain in
the continental United States (apart from Alaska).
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Numbers, Capitalization, End Punctuation
wow, the empire state building has 10,000,000 bricks in their structure
Using the Right Word, Capitalization
The Caspian sea is actually a Lake that lays north of Iran.
Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Subject-Verb Agreement,
Adjective (Comparative/Superlative), Abbreviations
Of all the states in our country AK have the most longest coastline and
the smallest population.
Subject-Verb Agreement, Capitalization, Spelling
The boot of italy looks as though it “kick” the iland of sicily.
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WEEK 20: Geographic Information
Verb (Tense), Capitalization, Comma (Numbers)
In the year 2050, paris is 2099 years old.
Plurals, Misplaced Modifier, Period
The face of Theodore Roosevelt wears eyeglass’s carved into Mt Rushmore.
Using the Right Word, Capitalization, Adjective (Articles)
Jamaica is a island that lays 90 miles South of Cuba.
Verb (Tense), Misplaced Modifier
All land masses according to one theory on the earth use to be part of
one big continent.
Comma (Appositives), Abbreviations, Using the Right Word
Jamaica an island of about 4,500 sq. mi. is just a little smaller then
Conn.
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WEEK 21: Overseas Facts
Verb (Irregular), Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Hyphen
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which taked up more than one
seventh of the earth’s land surface was once the largest country in the
world.
Abbreviations, Subject-Verb Agreement, Apostrophe (Possessives)
Over 25% of the worlds forests is in Siberia.
Using the Right Word, Adjective (Comparative/Superlative),
Run-On Sentence
China has the larger population of any country in the world more than a
billion people live their.
Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement, Double Negative
The persian gulf contain extremely salty water and isn’t hardly more than
100 feet deep at any point.
Capitalization, Comma (Unnecessary), Adjective (Articles)
The Persian Gulf oil spill of 1991, covered a area twice the size
of rhode island.
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WEEK 22: Size Isn’t Everything
Using the Right Word, Hyphen
The hole country of Israel is only one fourth the size of the state of
Maine.
Capitalization, Abbreviations, Double Subject, Numbers
The u.s. it could fit inside of africa at least 3 times.
Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Apostrophe, Capitalization
Although bangladesh has the eighth-largest population of any country its
only about the size of wisconsin.
Verb (Irregular), Numbers, Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives)
In eighteen sixty-seven, Secretary of State William Seward buyed the
oil rich state of Alaska for only $7.2 million.
Numbers, Using the Right Word, Capitalization
It is dark 24 hours a day four one hundred eighty-six days of the year at
the north pole.
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WEEK 23: Ancient Times
Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Verb (Tense)
Mesopotamians who lived in what is today called Iraq develop written
language around 3500 B.C.E.
Verb (Irregular), Numbers, Plurals
Egyptians first beginned preserving dead body in the form of mummies
around twenty-five hundred B.C.E.
Verb (Irregular), Capitalization, Colon
In 3000 b.c.e., the first adventure story was wrote about this warrior
gilgamesh.
Comma (Appositives and Unnecessary), Verb (Tense), Plurals
Hammurabi an ancient king, of Babylon in the eighteenth century B.C.E.,
develops the first code of law’s.
Using the Right Word, Wordy Sentence, Capitalization
Alexander the great conquered most of the known world, a lot of territory
needless to say, before he dyed in 323 b.c.e. at the age of 33.
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WEEK 24: World History
Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Subject-Verb Agreement
When Alexander the Great died his body were preserved in a big pot of
honey.
Capitalization, Sentence Fragment
In 982, Eric the Red the first viking colony in greenland.
Comma (Unnecessary), Numbers
The Mayan civilization discovered the concept of the number zero, and
developed mathematics around two hundred C.E.
Verb (Irregular), Capitalization, Comma (Between Independent Clauses),
Pronoun (Reflexive)
Constantine the Great was the first Roman emperor to declare his self a
christian and christianity then becomed legal in rome in 313.
Capitalization, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Plurals,
Using the Right Word
Marching to take over the holy city of Jerusalem almost 50,000 european
children lost there lifes in 1212.
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WEEK 25: European History
Using the Right Word, Verb (Irregular), Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives),
Wordy Sentence
The Hundred Years’ War, witch lasted from 1337 to 1453 and was 116
years long, was an English French conflict fighted for control of France.
Comma (Appositives and Series), Capitalization, Spelling
Joan of Arc a famus French Warrior in the Hundred Years’ War was
considered a heretic tried for this crime and burned at the Stake in 1431.
Using the Right Word, Comma (Appositives), Double Negative
In 1536, Henry VIII had his second wife Anne Boleyn killed because she
hadn’t never produced a mail air.
Rambling Sentence, Capitalization
elizabeth I was queen of England and she was completely bald at the age
of 29 and she always wore a red wig.
Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Subject-Verb Agreement
The first British theater known simply as The Theatre were built outside
London in 1576.
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WEEK 26: History Lessons
Comma (Numbers and Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses), Verb (Irregular),
Capitalization
The Great Plague breaked out in London in 1665 killing 75000 people
between july and october.
Capitalization, Using the Right Word, Comma (Appositives)
In 1718, a london lawyer James Puckle invented the vary first machine gun.
Comma (Appositives), Wordy Sentence
The Enlightenment a movement of the eighteenth century emphasized
rational thought and it encouraged thinking a lot.
Italics and Underlining, Run-On Sentence, Subject-Verb Agreement
The first encyclopedia, called Encyclopedie, were completed in France
in 1722 it was commonly referred to as the bible of the Enlightenment.
Using the Right Word, Capitalization, Verb (Tense), Pronoun (Reflexive)
In 1804, Haiti became the first black Nation too gain freedom for it when
it declares it’s independence from france.
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WEEK 27: Historical Feats
Verb (Tense), Capitalization, Comma (Between Independent Clauses),
Misplaced Modifier
In 1812, napoleon invaded Russia but only 20,000 will survive the russian
winter of his 60,000 men.
Comma (Unnecessary), Subject-Verb Agreement, Using the Right Word
Photography were invented buy French painter, Louis Daguerre, in 1839.
Comma (Appositives), Verb (Irregular), Italics and Underlining
In 1912, the Titanic the largest ocean liner of its time hit an iceberg and
sinked in the freezing northern waters of the Atlantic.
Abbreviations, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses)
In the year after World War I ended Adolf Hitler became a member of
Ger.’s Nazi Party.
Using the Right Word, Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrases and Clauses)
In 1971, Switzerland which is located at the southeastern border of
Germany became the last Western nation too give women the rite to vote.
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WEEK 28: Big Losses
Abbreviations, Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement
The national cancer institute say that 70% of the plants useful in treating
cancer come from rain forests.
Double Subject, Rambling Sentence
In 1680, dodo birds they became extinct and were not seen or heard from
again.
Using the Right Word, Quotation Marks, Verb (Irregular)
We were telled that “every day 40,000 children dye of hunger and
preventable disease.”
Capitalization, Abbreviations, Numbers
The 1988 drought in the U.S. cost the Nation more than one hundred
million tons of grain.
Using the Right Word, Double Subject, Numbers
The United States it looses three point five billion tons of topsoil each
year because of erosion.
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WEEK 29: Environmental Knowledge
Numbers, Abbreviations, Subject-Verb Agreement
100 lbs. of rainwater is needed to produce 1 pound of grain from the
earth.
Capitalization, Abbreviations, Subject-Verb Agreement, Spelling
The enviromental protection agency (epa) were founded in 1970.
Using the Right Word, Abbreviations
Over three billion gal. of petroleum are used buy the people of this world
every day.
Capitalization, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Plurals
If american’s carpooled regularly more than 600,000 gallons of gas could
be saved every day.
Using the Right Word, Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement
Did you no that the average American Office Worker throw away 180
pounds of paper every year?
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WEEK 30: Our Ecosystem
Using the Right Word, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses),
Abbreviations, Misplaced Modifier, Hyphen (Single-Thought Adjectives)
Too improve ground level heir quality smokestacks were introduced
in sum parts of the U.S. more than 200 feet high during the 1970s.
Using the Right Word, Semicolon, Verb (Irregular)
Vary tall smokestacks maid air safer to breathe but because pollutants
were picked up quickly by upper air currents, acid rain becomed even
more of a problem.
Capitalization, Using the Right Word, Apostrophe (Possessives), Abbreviations,
Numbers
Our Sci. teacher mentioned last weak that the Worlds population has
more then doubled since nineteen fifty.
Subject-Verb Agreement, Numbers, Comma (Series), Plurals
It has been estimated that Americans throws away twenty eight million
tons of branchs mowed grass and dead leaves every year.
Numbers, Subject-Verb Agreement, Using the Right Word
Americans uses about 8 times more fuel energy then people anywhere else
in the world.
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WEEK 31: Early American History
Comma (Series), Apostrophe (Possessives), Italics and Underlining
Christopher Columbus ships were the Nina the Pinta and the Santa
Maria.
Capitalization, Verb (Tense), Comma (Appositives)
In 1579, sir francis drake an english explorer sailed into the waters of
what is now san francisco bay and claims california for england.
Comma (Addresses), Using the Right Word, Abbreviations
The first black slaves were imported buy Jamestown VA in 1607.
Adjective (Articles), Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement
In 1634, maryland were founded as an catholic colony.
Using the Right Word, Comma (Unnecessary), Spelling
Roger Williams founded Providence, Rhode Island, as the first American
community too offer complete, religous freedom.
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WEEK 32: Our History
Using the Right Word, Subject-Verb Agreement, Comma (Unnecessary),
Capitalization, Apostrophe (Possessives)
Pennsylvania Quakers first protests, against Slavery was maid in 1688.
Numbers, Using the Right Word, Comma (Addresses)
19 people were executed in 1692 four practicing witchcraft in Salem
Massachusetts.
Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Using the Right Word,
Verb (Irregular), Capitalization
During the american revolution more colonists fighted on the side of
Britain then on the side of the colonies.
Comma (Dialogue and Interruptions), Quotation Marks, Capitalization
Mrs. Baxter stated in 1808, it became illegal at last to import slaves into
the United States.
Comma (Appositives), Italics and Underlining, Subject-Verb Agreement
The first Native American newspaper The Cherokee Phoenix were
published in 1828.
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WEEK 33: Some Women in American History
Comma (Appositives), Adjective (Articles), Numbers, Misplaced Modifier
Harriet Tubman a escaped slave freed in a raid in 1863 seven hundred
fifty slaves.
Verb (Tense), Spelling
Jane Adams receive the Nobel Prise for Peace in 1931.
Comma (Appositives and To Separate Phrases and Clauses), Capitalization,
Verb (Tense), Using the Right Word, Abbreviations
In 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte a member of the Omaha tribe graduate
from women’s medical college of PA becoming the first native american
woman to do sew and practice medicine in NE.
Verb (Irregular), Using the Right Word
In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor becomed the first woman too set on the
Supreme Court.
Sentence Fragment, Pronoun (Reflexive)
In 1916, Jeanette Rankin of Montana the first woman to get her elected
to Congress.
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WEEK 34: Modern American History
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Comma (To Separate Phrases and Clauses)
By a 1924 act of Congress all Native Americans received his United
States citizenship.
Comma (To Enclose Information), Period, Capitalization
Martin Luther King Jr was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1964.
Comma (Appositives), Subject-Verb Agreement, Capitalization
The Ku Klux Klan a secret society believing in white supremacy were
founded just after the civil war.
Abbreviations, Capitalization
During world war II, Pres. Roosevelt ordered 120,000 japanese americans
locked up in internment camps in the U.S.
Comma (Dates), Capitalization, Numbers
The first Nuclear reaction was triggered at the University of Chicago on
December 2 nineteen forty-two.
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WEEK 35: America’s Past
Comma Splice, Abbreviations, Adjective (Articles)
In 1953, the United States tested an hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific,
the explosion spread deadly radiation over 7,000 sq. mi.
Capitalization, Quotation Marks, Plurals, Spelling
our histery teacher told us that “at the outbreak of world war I, the
american Air Force consisted of only 50 mans.”
Nonstandard Language, Period, Comma (Interjections), Abbreviations
Yes my brother should of told me that John H Glenn was the first Amer.
to orbit Earth.
Capitalization, Double Subject
nixon he “opened” china in 1972 by becoming the first american president
to visit that nation.
Numbers, Capitalization
300,000 marchers visited Washington, D.C., in the Spring of 1971 to
protest the vietnam war.