Version #1
It's true. I don't like her Christmas tree at all.
versus
Version #2
Don't even get me started about my Aunt Rose's Christmas tree. First of all, it's aluminum. Second of all, it's pink. I mean, like the color of PeptoBismol, which makes sense, because I get sick to my stomach just looking at it. -- Neal Shusterman, The Schwa Was Here (2006)
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This Is Just To Say
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold.-- William Carlos Williams
Would you have. . . ?
Would you have forgiven the speaker in the poem for eating the plums you had been saving for breakfast?
Would you have eaten the plums?
Answer these two questions, then write until you have at least a half page, responding to any part or all of the poem.
Computer Lab -- Revise and finish essays/stories on MyAccess.
If you have extra time,
you could do research on the background of your historical fiction book.
(research handout)
Historical Fiction Essay Research.docx
Historical Fiction Assess Literary Elements. A(1).docx
