Revise Run-on Sentences English 12 English 10 Honors September 12, 2012 ! Directions: Copy the following run-on sentences below using the method given in parentheses. (1) In 1818, when she was twenty-one, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, "a masterpiece of horror,” the book book has been popular ever since. (Join with a coordinating conjunction.)

(2) The tale started as a parlor game, a group of friends sat by the fire telling ghost stories. (Join with a semicolon.)

(3) That night Mary had a vivid dream she imagined how a monster might be created by bringing a corpse back to life. (Join with a coordinating conjunction.) a (4) Many films center around Frankenstein's monster few of them deal with the book's serious themes. (Join with a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb)

From his studies of coptic, champollion knew that the egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah. he wrote down the first two letters of that sound, ra. next he put a question mark for the unknown middle hieroglyph. then, at the end, he wrote ss, the sound of the last two hieroglyphs. he studied the combination: ra ? ss. suddenly he remembered a famous pharaoh whose name appeared in ancient greek chronicles and also in the biblical book of exodus: rameses, or ramesses. could this be a hieroglyphic representation of ramesses' name? based on the excerpt, what detail did champollion need to conclude that the hieroglyphics might represent ramesses’s name?

Moritz is designing an advertisement to go with president barack obama's back-to-school remarks. how should moritz's ad be similar to the speech? it should be concise. it should be repetitive. it should be persuasive. it should be eye-catching.

As you have learned, epic heroes experience trials along their journeys. using your knowledge from beowulf, create a trial you believe an epic hero like beowulf might face. you will need to write a description of the trial using the aspects of a narrative. the trial can be anything you imagine, meaning you can test the hero in any way you see fit. be creative and have fun with this! let your creativity flow. focus on key attributes of beowulf and use his attributes to create a trial that would truly test him. since beowulf is very strong, a trial involving strength and endurance might be to easy. try thinking outside the box to create a trial that would truly test the hero of the geats. examples of beowulf’s attributes: couragous, loyal, strong, persistant, honorable, confident try to use one or multiples of these attribute when designing your trial. a good way to think of this activity is that you are a hunger games game designer. what could you make that would stump beowulf