2019-10-17 Writing: story feedback, quotations

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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1 Read your story to make sure you understand it. (Fix any major mistakes.)
2 Read your story out loud to your group.
3 As a group, choose your favorite story and choose who will read it to the class.
4 Read the winning stories to the class, and the class picks the best one.
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If you want to read all the stories, email me and I can send you a pdf scan.
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Writing Dialogue - “Quotation Marks”

- Separate speech from the rest of the sentence with commas:
	“Mom,”_he said,_“I’m hungry.” = He said,_“Mom, I’m hungry.”
	“It’s not easy,”_she said,_“to be a single mother.”
	“It’s not easy to be a single mother,”_she said.
	She said,_“It’s not easy to be a single mother.”
- Question marks and exclamation marks go inside quotes even if the sentence isn’t finished:
	“Is there anything to eat?”_he asked.
	He asked,_“Is there anything to eat?”
	“Stop!”_he shouted.
- If you use a person’s name, you can switch [name] and “said” after the quote:
	“I’m hungry,” Carl said. = “I’m hungry,” said Carl.