How it Feels to be
___________ Me
Due Monday, October
21
Typed. Double Spaced. Twelve point. No blank lines between
paragraphs, except to indicate a major shift in tone or setting. Three – five
pages. Don’t forget a title.
Required: Include at least one short sentence or fragment,
used to create a specific effect. Underline and label your short sentence or
fragment.
Required: Include at least one appositive, used to create a
specific effect. Underline and label your appositive.
Suggested: Close your essay with a powerful analogy.
Audience: 1) A reader who does not know you well. 2) A
reader who is familiar with the personalities teens bring to the classroom. 3)
Yourself.
Purpose: 1) To explore one of your avowed or ascribed
identities with a depth that surprises yourself and your reader. 2) To use this
exploration to make a comment about society in general.
Excellent topics include identities that are unique to you,
identities about which you are uncertain, and identities that are commonly
misunderstood.
What do you mean when you say to "label" our fragment?
ReplyDeleteRight under your short sentence (which should be underlined), write "Short Sentence."
DeleteRight under your appositive (which should also be underlined), write "Appositive."
That way, I know you know which of your sentences is the short sentence and which is the appositive.
Happy labeling!
What exactly do you mean by blank lines between paragraphs? A full space? Or just a blank area left by a finishing sentence that couldn't quite fit on one line?
ReplyDeleteSome students hit return an extra time after they finish a paragraph. It's a confusion between business letter format and MLA format. In MLA, when you finish your paragraph, you simply hit "return" once, followed by a "tab" to indent (unless your word processor has already indented for you).
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