Essay Assignments

Seniors
Your revised draft of the "technology and education" essay is due on Friday. Remember to turn in the original, hand-written draft if you want credit. Staple the final draft on top.

The grammar exercises and quiz this week have hopefully eliminated unwanted sentence errors from your papers. I will be deducting 10 points for every comma splice, fused sentence and fragment from here on (with the opportunity to recoup points, of course).

Juniors
Your assignment over the weekend is to prepare to write a comparison/contrast essay on the two "Chimney Sweeper" poems from William Blake. You are to use NO outside sources. The paper will be written IN CLASS on Monday, January 31st. We will discuss the poems on Friday.

Juniors ~ Restoration Period

For more on the Restoration Period, go to the homepage for the Norton Anthology of English Literature . Click on the picture below to go to Wikipedia's page on Hogarth's Marriage a-la-mode :

Seniors ~ Three (Small) Writing Assignments

As you work on your memory books this week and next, you should also be working on the end-of-year writing assignments. I've given you a handout (if you were on class): A letter to your future self -- imagine yourself four years from now...where will you be, and what will you be doing? Is it what you planned? What do you hope to remember about NOW? What's important? Address your future self in a letter (standard form), and enclose it in a self-address envelope. I won't read it, but I do need to know you've done it, so don't seal it. A reflective paragraph that will serve as the introduction to your memory book. What is your overall impression of your high school years? What do you want to remember most? Finally, write a poem about your senior class. The form and tone of the poem is up to you: funny, serious or sad; rhyming couplets, ballad, or free verse. However you write it, though, please take it seriously. A copy of this poem should go in your memory ...

Homework

Seniors Your exam is on Thursday, and your final essay is on Friday. I'll talk more about the essay in class tomorrow. Also, the senior auction project lacks one more important detail - your memories! We will spend a bit of time tomorrow in class writing down some of your fondest memories of your senior year, and the rest of your time at RO. Sophomores Read "Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey," and complete the questions at the end of the selection in your book. As always, please use complete sentences and cite frequently from the text.

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