MONDAY, APRIL 26

1) Put at least one sticky note on Wallwisher by Thursday night. 

2) Grammar and literary terms quiz ON THURSDAY

-- worth 60 points. 

(It can affect your overall grade by 0.4%.)

3) ESSAY #20

Tonight, comments on your partners' blogs are due. 

Be sure to take your time with the comments tonight. Write one careful and specific compliment, 

and two helpful and detailed suggestions. 

The second draft for grading 

(the entire 4-paragraph essay with a self-assessment) 

will be due, as usual, tomorrow night.

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THE FULL ASSIGNMENT IS BELOW:

 

In essay #19, write about your positive feelings about your family, and how those feelings relate to something in To Kill a Mockingbird or Romeo and Juliet, or both. 

In the first body paragraph, write about what you admire about your family. You could write about one person in your family, 

or three persons, 

or just your family as a whole. 

To maintain unity in the paragraph, be sure to use a "bell word" in the topic sentence, and use as many echoes of that word as possible. Put the bell word in bold print, and the echoes in italics. Use and identify (in parentheses and by using a different color) one example of alliteration and parallelism, and one apt thesaurus word.

In the second body paragraph (8 sentence format), due on Thursday night, relate your admiration for your family to something in To Kill a Mockingbird or Romeo and Juliet, or both. Be sure to use brief quotes to support your SD's, and keep your chunks united under a single umbrella. To maintain unity in the paragraph, be sure to use a "bell word" in the topic sentence, and use as many echoes of that word as possible.  Put the bell word in bold print, and the echoes in italics. Use and identify (in parentheses and by using a different color) one loose sentence and one apt thesaurus word.