Unit Activity Lesson Plans

Introduction
Students have read about the writing process. In this lesson, they will practice proofreading for errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage.

Lesson Description
Students will retype three passages, proofreading for errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage.

Instructional Objectives

1. Students will be able to proofread writing effectively.
2. Students will be able to recall concepts and terms from the unit.

Student Web Activity Answers
Note that all answers provided below are examples. Student answers may vary.

1. Mohandas Gandhi was one of India's most popular leaders. A lawyer by trade, he left practicing law to fight personally for his people's rights against their British rulers. Deeply committed to nonviolence, Gandhi was determined to win India's freedom by avoiding confrontation.
2. Over the years he developed a code of action known today as civil disobedience. Gandhi's code called for nonviolent noncooperation to achieve independence. Whenever armed British soldiers came to enforce the occupying government's laws, Gandhi urged his people not to fight. Instead, they stood still, refusing to move backward or forward and refusing to give in to the soldiers. Unwilling to shoot into the unarmed crowd, the British usually retreated.  However, in the massacre of Amritsar, British soldiers killed almost four hundred of Gandhi's followers.
3. Gandhi and his followers knew that nonviolent protests could lead to imprisonment and even death, but they remained loyal to the independence movement until Great Britain granted the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947.

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