Journal#1: Under what conditions will the instructor permit students to make up a missed quiz or turn in a late assignment?

Journal Entry #2: In the Thursday ice breaker activity, you discussed how you got started learning something (outside of school) that you now do well. The most common reasons given by the class were influence of family and friends or the requirements of a job.  For this journal entry, I would like you to tell how you went about becoming good at it.

Journal Entry #3: When was the last time you wrote anything more than a page long? What was it?

Journal Entry #4: Read the following two sentences that have essentially the same meaning. Explain SPECIFICALLY why one sentence uses the singular form of the verb to be and the other uses the plural form. (HINT: Hacker sections 10a and 10d.)

       All of the pie was eaten.

                All of the pieces of the pie were eaten.

Journal Entry #5: What is the main difference between a clause and a phrase?

Journal Entry #6: How are an independent clause and a subordinate clause different?

Journal Entry #7: What is grammatically wrong with this sentence? “A person needs to submit their homework on time.”

Journal Entry #8:  What is grammatically wrong with this sentence? “If someone feels they haven’t been treated respectfully, the odds are they’re right.” (Jodi Rave, Billings Gazette, 4/2/06)

Journal Entry #9: How does thinking about the audience before beginning to write help the writer?