Today, in grammar, Hudson completed Prentice Hall 8th Grade textbook lesson Recognizing Run-ons, Correcting Run-ons, Recognizing and Correcting Incorrect Modifiers. We read through examples of run-on sentences, which connect two complete sentences with a comma where they should be separated by a period. We discussed that the way to recognize if a sentence is a run-on is to see if it has a subject modified by a predicate. If the sentence has more than one subject-predicate set connected by a comma then it is a run-on.

We also discussed that the way to recognize if a sentence is incorrectly modified is to observe if the correct subject is acting upon the correct verb. Hudson corrected many sentences by either adding the correct subject or rearranging the order of the words so that the subject and predicate are clearly modifying each other.

In writing, Hudson completed a Commonlit.org article and discussion question/short writing response set titled, "The Power of 'Like'". He practiced main/central idea, reading comprehension, author's purpose, supporting your idea with a quotation, and writing short responses that directly answer a question (by restating the question) and elaborating on your response.