For January, you will be using appositives in your sentences. Appositives follow a noun and rename it. Appositives do not start with who, whom, which, or that. They do use commas unless they are very short and just add a name. For example, my cousin Bob names the same person twice, but in that case the appositive doesn't need commas. You will use longer appositives, ones that do require commas. Here are some samples:

• Mrs. Kragen, our English teacher, told us to use appositives in our sentences this month.
• We are supposed to use longer appositives, ones that require commas.
• There are several movie versions of Cyrano de Bergerac, a story about a man with a very large nose who falls in love with a beautiful girl.
• Cyrano, a skilled swordsman, could also write poetry.