Titles Activity

Directions: Devise a creative one sentence rule which governs the use of quotation marks and underlining (Italic when word processed) in all of the following examples. Make sure each member of the group can present the rule. Please email me your creative, one-sentence rule. I will share it with the rest of the class. Also, pleased follow your own rule in your writings this summer.

The editorial “You Can’t Take It with You” appeared in yesterday’s Boston Globe.

The best show on Comedy Central is “The Daily Show.”

The best short story in J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories is “Teddy.”

“Recalled to Life” is the best chapter in the novel A Tale of Two Cities.

“The Second Coming” appeared in Keats’ book Revelations.

Yesterday’s page one lead story in The Union Leader was “Students Teaching Students in John Stark High School.”

The best part of Newsweek is the “People” section.

When I Was Young is a book of poetry containing the poem “When I Was Young.”

“Friends” was a great show on NBC Thursday Night.

“Book Two” was more exciting than “Book One” in Things Fall Apart.

My favorite song is Jimmy Buffet’s “It’s Been a Lovely Cruise” from his Changes in Latitudes,Changes in Attitudes album.

I like Richard Farina's first novel I've Been Down So Long, It Looks Like Up to Me much more than his second, Watermelon Fishing in America.

*Note: Italics and Underlining can be used interchangeably.