• A copy of the summer assignment and rubric WILL BE posted on the MHS website, www.msd3.org/mhs. * Your summer assignment is due the first day of school. To ensure success, please follow the steps and directions below. 1. Read The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Due Day 6. Week Three Quiz. Complete the quiz on the assigned readings for the week. Assignmentt Week Three Problems. Complete the following problems from the textbook and submit them as a Word file.
Intro: This should include a “hook,” background information, and a thesis. It should clearly lay out what you are going to discuss in your essay. Body: Provide analysis and supporting evidence. Mention several key events or moments from the novel. Include at least three carefully chosen quotes to help capture larger ideas from the novel.
Your satire should be 3 paragraphs and should have an original accompanying, original cartoon. Conclude this assignment by writing (minimum of 2 paragraphs) an analysis of your satire and a comparison of your satire and the satiric devices you used with those of Swift and/or Voltaire. II. Create a fictional character who is an educated woman or person of color (or both) of the eighteenth century. Write a first person narrative or story in which you offer some biographical material about yourself and then write astute observations about this “Age of Reason” in which you find yourself (in America, England, or France).
The Green Mile Final Essay Choose one of the following essay topics below and write an essay that consists of an introductory paragraph (with a properly started thesis statement), three body paragraphs (minimum 2 quotes/examples per body paragraph), and a concluding paragraph. You will have two in class periods to prepare your essay outline. You will have two lab periods to write your essay. Your essay is due at the end of class on Friday, May 13th, 2011. Please choose one of the following topics to formulate an essay around: 1) Someone who maintains a set of beliefs and is murdered because of them is called a martyr.
Discuss, with quotations and close reference, how Steinbeck uses language, both spoken and descriptive, to create a variety of effects in “Of Mice and Men”. 5. Should one feel sympathy for Curley? In Curley, Steinbeck has painted a picture of a thoroughly unpleasant young man. Argue a case, using three (3 ) points, to show that it is possible for the reader to feel sorry for Curley, while still acknowledging his many faults.
The difference lies in the fact, that only the presence touches the mouse; man on the other hand, are able to look back in regret, or look to the future and fear. Steinbeck took the title from the second last stanza: “The best laid schemes of mice and men / Go often askew”. Of Mice and Men is Steinbeck’s first attempt to write both a novel and a play at the same time. He wanted to write a play that could be read as a novel, or a novel that could be performed as a play directly by its lines. The language itself is very simple and straightforward, written to mirror his characters.
Sister Carrie Paper DUE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Objective To be able to generate a carefully constructed and persuasive historical interpretation in an essay. Assignment In a 1500 word essay, you need to answer the below question and create an argument that supports your thesis. Based on your reading of Sister Carrie and the understanding that the book is a work of fiction answer the following question and address all of the following points: 1. How difficult was it to escape poverty in the late nineteenth century? Were people stuck or trapped by the social and economic forces of the day?
Confusion, Seeking and Awakening —An analysis on Gogol Ganguli in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake Abstract This paper intends to explore the protagonist Gogol Ganguli in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake from the perspective of cultural identity. As a second generation immigrant, Gogol is facing with a dilemma: he is torn between his Bengali root and his seeking to craft an individual identity as an American. Part 1 is a brief introduction to the author, the novel and cultural identity theory being used as tool in this paper (Stuart Hall’s definition on cultural identity and Jacques Derrida’s concept of difference). Part2 examines the vital recurring symbol in the novel—name and naming. Part 3 and Part 4 analyzes Gogol’s attitude toward his American and Bengali identities respectively.
Introduction to Writing Dialogue The Great Mouse Plot By Roald Dahl Directions: Read the story below. After you’re finished reading, rewrite sentences 1 – 10 exactly as shown on a separate piece of binder paper. Be sure to include all indenting, capital letters and punctuation. My four friends and I had come across a loose floor-board at the back of the classroom, and when we pried it up with the blade of a pocket-knife, we discovered a big hollow space underneath. This, we decided, would be our secret hiding place for sweets and other small treasures such as conkers and birds' eggs.