In class today students began to realize the power of punctuation. It can vastly change meaning!
For example, look at the following group of words and punctuate it properly to make it a sentence:
"Woman without her man is nothing"
---> Woman, without her man, is nothing.
---> Woman: without her, man is nothing.
I like the second one better ;-)
We also discussed how punctuation can save lives!
Tomorrow as students prepare their 6 Word Memoirs, they will be focusing on punctuation and word choice in order to best express their story.
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