Category: High school

The goals for this assignment are to:

demonstrate your understanding of the elements of the thesis-driven academic essay
analyze a contemporary (and not well known) poem of your own choosing, using several of the appropriate terms and devices for poetry
create an original argument for meaning
Directions:  Using the techniques and tools we have discussedbut selecting which ever are appropriate and useful to your poeminterpret the selected poem to expose what you think to be its central idea or argument.

Formulate your thesis in response to this PROMPT: 

What is the deeper and most significant message or argument in this work (your chosen poem)?

How does Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s effective use of figurative language and rhetorical appeals to convey a message of empowerment and encouragement? Analyze this excerpt of his speech and support your answer with textual evidence.
Excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s I Have A Dream speech
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest –quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” –one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”2
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. And this will be the day –this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

we have to write on how we would survive the zombie apocalypse. my strategy would be raid stores and take shelter in the mountains. other then that you can add whatever you want. im not too smart so dont make it sounds too smart.

“In todays era children’s behavior has completely changed with the passage of time. Therefore, it has been a common and a controversial topic in most sociology and psychology debates. People have divided into two parts; some think that it has changed to the better, while others have a different understanding.”

*In four paragraphs (not less than 22 sentences) plan and write and essay in which you discuss both arguments and state your own support.

Read Matthew Arnolds poem Dover Beach and think about the context for the poem. Do a little online research on the poem in order to understand its background. Then, relate the poem to the novel by showing how Orwell might have used the poem as a stimulus for writing the novel. Use proper essay format.

This writing practicum will assess the students ability to write a short essay comparing and contrasting followership and servant leadership. 

The essay must meet the following requirements: 

(a) Minimum of 250 words, no more than 750 words.

(b) Font is Arial, 12pt.

(c) Use standard margins:  One inch from the left, right, and bottom edges.  Do not justify right margins.

(d) Use double spacing.

(e) Utilize a graphic organizer.

(f) Employ the Army Writing Style and standard written English.

(g) Use the 5 paragraph essay format.

(h) Provide a strong purpose statement.

(i) Use second set of eyes.