Alabama ELA Standard: 8.LL.20

Can your students help The Bard? We’ll fix five Shakespearean run-ons in three different ways.

A passage from White Fang to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

In a sentence, punctuation may seem meek when compared to those mighty words, but punctuation has incredible power over the meaning of a sentence. Students will try re-punctuating sentences to find new meanings – without changing a single word!

In this lesson, students will not just fix passive sentences, but break active sentences as they learn to put the star of the sentence first.