TUESDAY, MAY 11
1) REGULAR QUIZ ON THURSDAY
2) Essay Assignment #21
Post the full second draft for grading on your blog tonight.
Post the full second draft for grading on your blog tonight.
Don't forget to do a careful self-assessment.
READ THE ENTIRE ASSIGNMENT
AND THE POEM BELOW.
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Essay Assignment #21
In the first body paragraph (8 sentences),
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Essay Assignment #21
In "A Valentine for Ernest Mann", Naomi Shihab Nye says that, to Ernest Mann,
"Nothing was ugly
just because the world said so. He really
liked those skunks. So, he reinvented them
as valentines and they became beautiful."
At least, to him.
just because the world said so. He really
liked those skunks. So, he reinvented them
as valentines and they became beautiful."
At least, to him.
In essay #22, write about this idea of finding beauty where most people find only ugliness, or finding excitement where most people find boredom, or finding good in the midst of what seems like evil.
CLICK HERE TO READ MS. NYE'S POEM
CLICK HERE TO READ MS. NYE'S POEM
In the first body paragraph (8 sentences),
which is due on your blog tomorrow night (Thursday),
discuss this theme in Ms. Nye's poem --
the idea that "nothing is ugly just because the world [says] so".
the idea that "nothing is ugly just because the world [says] so".
How does the poet develop this theme?
Be sure to use a brief quote in each chunk to support your main idea.
In the second body paragraph (11 sentences),
which is due on your blog on Monday night,
discuss how this theme applies to your beliefs,
and to your own experiences.
which is due on your blog on Monday night,
discuss how this theme applies to your beliefs,
and to your own experiences.
Tell about an experience or two in which you discovered that "nothing [is] ugly",
or in which you "reinvented" some part of your life
and made it beautiful.
or in which you "reinvented" some part of your life
and made it beautiful.
Again, please include at least one quote from the poem in this paragraph,
just to keep the essay unified.
just to keep the essay unified.
To maintain unity in both paragraphs, please use a "bell word" in the topic sentences, and use at least one echo of that word in each chunk.
Put the bell word in bold print, and the echoes in italics.
"Ugly" might be a good bell word, or "beauty", or "reinvented", etc.
The bell word should be a really key word in the essay.
Please use and identify (in parentheses)
at least two APT thesaurus words in each body paragraph.
(Make sure they fit. Email me if you're not sure.)
Also, in the essay,
two APT thesaurus words and one excellent example of purposeful repetition
Also, in the essay,
two APT thesaurus words and one excellent example of purposeful repetition
in each body paragraph.
Be sure the thesaurus words are APT. Email me if you're not sure.
