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Ms. Melancon's Class Pages

Welcome to my class!

By navigating around my site, you can find a weekly calendar of assignments/due dates, copies of class handouts, online links to literature from the textbook (if available), and also links to websites you'll find helpful. 
 
I am available in my room from 8:00-8:25 each morning, and afternoons by appointment.  Just let me know by talking to me after class, or email me at msmelancon@yahoo.com or melancon@fultonschools.org  
Have a great year!

Summer Reading Lists

summer reading 2012 for non-AP

AP Literature summer reading

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
1. Starting a sentence with a conjunction
2. Underlining!
3. Italics or quotation marks used incorrectly
4. Periods/commas go inside “ ” (unless there is a citation)
5. Incorrect citations
6. Improper quote integration
7. Contractions

Top 20 Rules List

Fragment

Run-On Sentence

Agreement Problem (tense, gender, number)

Comma Problem

Semicolon Problem

Quotation Mark/Italics Problem

Use of Verboten List Item

Wordiness/Clarity

Pronoun Reference Problem

Spelling Error

Capitalization Error

Your/Their/Too/ Its Error

Word That Doesn’t Exist

Citation Problem/Works Cited Page

Layout Problem

Not Enough Evidence

Too Many Simple Sentences

Quote Integration

Contraction

Slang

"Me fail English? That's unpossible!" --Ralph Wiggum, The Simpsons