Blog # 5 - Ms. Tornincaso

i love tv it is a very relaxing activity for me after a hard day of work  my favorite tv show to watch is gilmore girls  new episodes of gilmore girls are no longer on because the show has gone off the air  however i do watch reruns that are on everyday  i also have bought the box set of dvds of all the seasons of gilmore girls  gilmore girls is about a mother and a daughter name lorelai and rory who live together in stars hallow connecticut near hartford connecticutt  lorelai owns and runs an inn in town  rory goes to a prestigious private high school called chilton in hopes of attending harvard one day  they live alone in this small quirky town with very interesting, funny characters and they are each others best friend  they are very close and do everything together  they are very close in age because lorelai had rory at a very young age  they go shopping together, watch movies together, each junk food together and talk about absolutely everything  loralie is estranged from her parents after having a child at such a young age and never graduating from high school  her wealthy parents live in hartford connecticutt and try to get back into loralie and rorys lives over the years  they go through life together learning together about the trials and tribulations of work school life love and family


Vocabulary

rerun (verb) - to show or perform again

prestigious (adjective) - having a high status 

quirky (adjective) - unexpected or weird

estranged (adjective) - no longer close to

trial (verb) - a test

tribulation (noun) - a cause of great trouble or struggle


Vocabulary Exercise

*unscramble the following words to make one of the vocabulary words above*

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Grammar Point:  The passage above is written with a lot of mistakes in capitalization and punctuation.  Capitalization and punctuation are very important in writing and in reading.  They make what you are writing or reading make sense or have a better flow.  Punctuation can even change the meaning of a sentence depending on where it is placed or how it is used.

Grammar Point Exercise:  The passage above is written with a lot of mistakes in capitalization and punctuation.  Reread the passage adding in all the necessary capitalization and punctuation to make the passage correct.