Students encounter an ellipsis in the unit test paragraph analysis item that quotes Abigail Adams using an initial ellipsis ("...I desire you would Remember the Ladies..."). The rubric and Day 3 directions require students to include and read from at least one primary-source quotation in their one-person play, and a sample play includes quoted primary-source material. These elements show students will see and work with quoted material that contains an ellipsis in context.

The Problem/Solution Writing Transition chart includes the phrase "if...then," which displays an ellipsis (three dots) between words. The lesson's sample writing and student activities include extensive writing tasks and transition practice that expose students to punctuation in context, though no other explicit ellipsis examples appear.

Students encounter an ellipsis in a quoted line from Tam Lin: "If you're like El Patrón...Just think about it." The ellipsis appears within character dialogue in the Activity 1 excerpts, providing at least one concrete example of the three-dot mark in printed text. This gives students a natural context in which an ellipsis is used.

Students encounter an ellipsis in the character quote for Pipkin, shown as "...they put me in mind of trees in November." The lesson's character cards and quoted dialogue sections present punctuation within quotations, providing at least one explicit example of an ellipsis in use.

Students read and discuss a quoted passage that includes an ellipsis: Miss Maudie's remark is printed in the Parent Plan section as "...sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of--oh, of your father." This shows students encounter an ellipsis in the course text and discussion prompts.

The vocabulary Student Activity Page includes an example sentence that contains an ellipsis: "Papa told me to…" in the Mollified entry. Students also read chapters 14–15 of To Kill a Mockingbird, which include dialog excerpts where punctuation such as an ellipsis appears in quoted lines.

The quoted Atticus line on the Student Activity Page includes an ellipsis: "... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." Students are asked to choose quotes and "rewrite each, or explain it in your own words," and to create a creative display of a memorized quote, so students will read and work with text that contains punctuation including an ellipsis.

The lesson's Skills list explicitly names the ellipsis ("Use punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break"). Students encounter ellipses in multiple student activity items: quoted poem lines in the "Using Commas Part 1" matching exercise contain ellipses (rendered as …) and the answer key reproduces those examples. The Parent Plan and activity descriptions also mention punctuation broadly, indicating that students will review punctuation including the ellipsis.

The Parent Plan skills list names the ellipsis alongside comma and dash: "Use punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break." Ellipses also appear in quoted poem excerpts (e.g., the birches passage begins and ends with "..."), so students are exposed to ellipses in authentic text.

Students read a clear definition in "Things to Know" that an ellipsis is three dots used to indicate omitted content, and Activity 3 gives a concrete in-text example showing how to omit part of a quoted line ("While round us bark the ... hungry dogs"). The lesson explains spacing (preceded and followed by a space), instructs to use only three dots, and shows the special convention for omitting a whole line in poetry. The Student Activity Page asks students to analyze real poems for ellipsis use, replace dashes with ellipses to observe the effect, and choose the correct ellipsis form from multiple options (question 4).

Students are asked to review punctuation marks including ellipses (referencing Lesson 10) and to consult the Handy Guide to Writing for more information. Students can choose Option 1 to write a poem that explains how a punctuation mark works (which could focus on ellipses) or Option 2 to compose a short poem containing at least three of the four marks (commas, hyphens, dashes, ellipses) and then describe why they used each mark on a separate sheet. Students are also instructed in the Tech Poem activity to double-check that their punctuation matches the source text.

Students complete a "Punctuation Review" graphic organizer that includes a column for Ellipsis and instructions to cut out descriptions and paste them in the correct column; the answer key explicitly states: "Ellipsis column: indicates that information is missing from a quotation." A matching activity presents quotations with blanked punctuation (e.g., "Helen ___ thy beauty is to me...") that students must associate with the correct punctuation type. The unit test answer key (Question 15) tells students that to indicate a missing line of poetry one inserts a line of spaced periods or a series of ellipses.