THURSDAY, APRIL 22

1) Grammar and literary terms quiz tomorrow

-- worth 50 points. 

(It can affect your overall grade by 0.3%.)

2) ESSAY #19
Second body paragraph due tonight.
(Scroll down to read full assignment 
for second body paragraph.)

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.

Next Monday night, comments on your partners' blogs will be due, and the second draft for grading (the entire 4-paragraph essay with a self-assessment) will be due, as usual, next Tuesday night.