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Essays Due

Seniors
Your revision papers are DUE on Friday. Please include all drafts, including the original, hand-written version. In addition, don't forget about the rhetorical terms quiz #2.

Sophomores
Your one-page reflection papers are DUE on Friday. Even though I won't be able to verify your experience -- whether or not you spend a tech-free hour of solitude somewhere outside -- please write about your experience honestly. The goal here is to reflect on the relative silence and quiet of your yard. Even if you don't have some "revelation" or transcendent moment, write about what your senses detect. Thoreau and Emerson suggest that if you allow yourself to go beyond your senses, however, you will open yourself to ideas and inspiration. So try it.

Jot down notes during your hour an any form you'd like, but the report itself needs to be written in complete sentences. Please attach your notes to the final typed copy of your report. This paper should be typed and formatted according to MLA. That means, among other things, that it should be in 12-point Times New Roman and double-spaced.

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