Daily Fix-Its
These are DO NOW activities to use as a bell ringer to the start of class for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. 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 act, and fix the errors, without looking in the text. Find an example of the first act below. Great for getting students COMMON CORE ready by analyzing text as well as grammar and spelling.

Act One

Fix It

Hell, do they ever no it? No body say’s, "Your dying." You hafta fool them. They hafta fool themselves.

Fixed

Hell, do they ever know it? Nobody says, "You're dying." You have to fool them. They have to fool themselves.