Due April 5 (5P Country Essay & Fix Its 3&4 & Red Pony)

INTRIGUING TITLE REQUIRED  You will be subtly referring to it in your conclusion!

INTRODUCTION (T/C not required)

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--> Your first sentence should be an grab attention & hook the audience’s interest.

--> The middle of the intro gives background, general, and/or basic information about your following paragraphs. It introduces the body of your essay.  

--> The last part of your introduction is your THESIS STATEMENT  This tells your audience what your three topics are.

       

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Three BODY PARAGRAPHS 

These are the three "topic paragraphs" you have already written about your country.

Each one requires T/C

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CONCLUSION (special clincher rule - last 2 sentences)

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--> Briefly recall the three topics. You can elaborate (slightly) on the significance of your topics. 

--> The last paragraph helps your reader appreciate your country and feel happy that they read your essay.

REMEMBER THE RULE FOR THE LAST TWO SENTENCES.

--> One of the sentences should tell the reader, "the most significant topic in your essay.

--> One of the sentences should reflect, or restate @ least part of your TITLE. 

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The Little Mermaid part 3

Correct any punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and general grammatical errors. Special notes for these sentences:

• Run-on sentences have two main clauses that sometimes need to be joined with something stronger than a comma (a comma splice). 
• Check for correct usage of like & as. Like is a preposition and should be followed by an object to create a prepositional phrase (she sings like a bird). As is a conjunction and should be followed by a clause with a subject and a verb (she sings as a bird does). 
• Note: Hung refers to having suspended something. Hanged means to have executed someone. If you look up “irregular verbs,” you can find all sorts of lists of verbs with their tense forms. 
  

Part 3

to each of the young princesses the sea king bequeathed a little garden plot where they might dig and plant as they pleased, one princess arranged her flowerbed as a whale, another as a mermaid, that of the youngest contained flowers as red as the suns ray’s at sunset.

She was a singular child quiet and thoughtful, whereas her sisters would be thrilled with the marvelous things they obtained from the wrecks of vessels’ the younger princess cherished nothing, but her lovely flowers—except one thing a marble statue

Carved out of pure white stone the statue was the rendering of a handsome boy which had fallen to the bottom of the sea from a wreck, beside the statue, the youngest mermaid had planted a rose-colored, weeping willow

Splendidly it had grown, and soon hanged it’s fresh branches over the statue, enchanted by any information she might gain about the world above the sea the little mermaid made her venerable grandmother tell her all she new of the ships and towns.

The Little Mermaid part 4

Correct any punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and general grammatical errors. Special notes for these sentences:

• Spell out ordinal numbers (first, second, third, etc.).
• Go over the rules of commas and quotes as they pertain to conversation. 
• Several other comma rules are tested. Fix errors and be ready to explain as needed.
  
  Part 4
  To her, it seemed most amazing that flowers of the land should have fragrance, and that fish among the tree’s could sing so sweetly, when you have reached your 15th year said the grandmother. You will have our sanction to rise up out of the sea. [quotation continues]
  
  you may sit on the rocks in the luminous moonlight while the great ships are sailing by in the following year, one of the sister’s would be 15 since each mermaid was a year younger then the next the youngest would have to endure 5 years before her turn came.
  
  However each promised to tell the others’ what they discovered on their impending visit, and what they thought the most pleasing, because there grandmother could not tell them as much as they wanted to know.
  
  None of them yearned so much for their turn to come as the younger. She who had the longest time to wait, and who was so quiet and thoughtful

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Read John Steinbeck's book,  The Red Pony

We will discuss it and have a writing assignment about the book on April 19.

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