Daily Fix-Its
These are DO NOW activities to use as a bell ringer to the start of class for the novel All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren. It gets students editing and proofreading while also staying on topic with the text. The quotes come directly from the text. Students will receive the quote from the text with errors, and teacher has the fixed version to share after students complete. These can be written on the board by the teacher or copied onto a white board program such as a Promethean or Smartboard. Just copy the fix it to project, or cut the answer key and provide a copy to the students to fix on paper. For this activity students will identify who said it, how it is pivotal to the chapter, and fix the errors, without looking in the text. Find an example of the first chapter below.

Chapter 1
Fix It
“Way of a head of you […] the slab will glitter and gleem like water, as though the road where flooded.”

Fixed
“Way off ahead of you […] the slab will glitter and gleam like water, as though the road were flooded.”