We read the story of Sybil Ludington who became famous for her horseback ride through upstate New York to warn militia that British troops were raiding and burning Danbury, Connecticut. What makes her ride even more impressive than that of Paul Revere's ride is that she was just a kid of sixteen when she heroically rode a treacherous forty miles during the middle of the night. Then we practiced identifying the correct homograph or homophone for sets of sentences. Next we practiced identifying abbreviations with proper punctuation.