Tuesday, 4/7

* Open

• Work on your AP Study Cards and memorization
• Minimum of 10 words each from three quotes memorized from each card (Lewis and Austen for block day)

* Grammar Question:

• 1. Which is correct?
• We will study grammar for a while. OR
• We will study grammar for awhile.  

• 2.  Which is correct?
• Jesus' teaching is surprising. OR
• Jesus's teaching is surprising. 

   Let's look at these together:

• 1. Usage: a while vs awhile
• a while (article + noun; means "a short time")
• I've been eating caterpillars for a while. 
• A while after reading Dickens, I was still haunted by his rhetoric.  

• awhile (adverb; means "for a short time" or "for a while")
• I've been eating caterpillars awhile (for a while).   

• While (noun; to pass)
• Don't simply while away your years.   

• While (conjunction; means that they occur at the same time)
• I don't text while driving. 

• 2. And Abusage: Possessive case when you noun is singular and already ends in -s:
• Oh, the confusion
• Strunk and White
• Chicago
• OWL
• Dictionary.com
• MLA
• The end of the matter? 

* Journal Goodness

* Dickens

HW: TTC--7 (checked on block day)