Using
Quotations in Text
1. Choose
a Sunday comic from the box (or find one online). Tell the story of the comic
and put the words spoken in quotations marks.
Follow the rules below, and look at the example provided..
2. You will
be working on this assignment for 2 days.
3. “C”
contract should do 2 comics, “B” do 4, and “A” do 6 over the next two days. You may do more for extra credit.
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RULES
FOR USING QUOTATION MARKS:
1. Describe what’s happening in the story. Make up names if you don’t know who the
characters are in the cartoon.
2. Set off the words of
the speaker with quotations marks (The words in the
conversation bubbles.)
3. Periods go INSIDE
the quotation marks at the end of quotes.
4. Use explanatory
words with quotes to indicate who is talking.
5. Thoughts go in
quotation marks, too.
6. The reader should be able to understand the
cartoon by reading your version.
7. Don’t forget to start with the TITLE of the
comic and it’s number.
Example of a Dilbert Comic:
Dilbert
While Bob was walking down the hall at work, he heard his boss trying to talk on his cell phone but the connection was bad. The boss was saying, “Hello. Hello."
“Let me see that. I’m an engineer,” said Bob. After taking the phone from his boss, Bob said, “Hmm…it might be a bad signal or may be a bad phone. There’s only one way to isolate the problem.” Bob handed the phone back to his boss and said, “Go up to the roof and see if you have reception there.”
So, the boss went up on the roof of the building and tried to use his phone. When it didn’t work, he said, “Dang. Nothing.” Then, as the boss turned to go back into the building, he thought to himself, “Uh-oh. The door is locked. On other way to get down…No one can hear me yell and my phone doesn’t work.”
Then, he looked over the edge of the building and thought, “My only hope is to jump into that open garbage bin in the alley.
“That’ll teach him to keep his battery charged,” said Bob to Dilbert. Looking through the window, they were seeing their boss fall from the roof.
Dilbert
While Bob was walking down the hall at work, he heard his boss trying to talk on his cell phone but the connection was bad. The boss was saying, “Hello. Hello."
“Let me see that. I’m an engineer,” said Bob. After taking the phone from his boss, Bob said, “Hmm…it might be a bad signal or may be a bad phone. There’s only one way to isolate the problem.” Bob handed the phone back to his boss and said, “Go up to the roof and see if you have reception there.”
So, the boss went up on the roof of the building and tried to use his phone. When it didn’t work, he said, “Dang. Nothing.” Then, as the boss turned to go back into the building, he thought to himself, “Uh-oh. The door is locked. On other way to get down…No one can hear me yell and my phone doesn’t work.”
Then, he looked over the edge of the building and thought, “My only hope is to jump into that open garbage bin in the alley.
“That’ll teach him to keep his battery charged,” said Bob to Dilbert. Looking through the window, they were seeing their boss fall from the roof.
