Writers Mark SSJ Homework DUE: Wednesday, September 23, 2020

NOVICE:
Indicate one of each DRESS UP in each paragraph.

Indicate  one of each OPENER in each paragraph.

Indicate one M3 in each paragraph.

VARSITY: 

Indicate one of each DRESS UP in each paragraph.

Indicate one of each OPENER in each paragraph.

Indicate one DEC in each paragraph.

Indicate one M3 in each paragraph.

Indicate one OWL in the whole essay.

ALL
• NO banned words

• NO dialogue

• NO contractions

1) Write a *three paragraph essay about the video, Thirty Days.

This essay should be at the TOP of your class google doc.

2) Write one sentence for each of the next ten SAT vocabulary words.    Link to vocab    Complete vocabulary words up to #40

3) Review your past work and correct as needed.

4) Be ready to recite three stanzas (16 lines) of the poem.

MEMORIZE and recite --> this is not a reading, it is a recitation. 

Ideas for your *three paragraphs.

P1  Explain the video in your own words.

P2   Describe something you would like to add for thirty days.

Be realistic.

Explain why and how you could do this. Describe what obstacles you might encounter, & how you could face those obstacles or challenges.  How might this change your life?

P3   Describe something you would like to subtract for thirty days.

Be realistic.

Explain why and how you could do this.  Describe what obstacles you might encounter, & how you could face those obstacles or challenges.  How might this change your life?

An alternate idea for a paragraph:
Compare this to what we do during to Lent.  :-)

Isn't it interesting how this idea (in the video) is something that we know can be used for a higher good? Isn't it interesting that, even in this watered down version, it is still beneficial to people? God is so good!

It Couldn’t Be Done

BY EDGAR ALBERT GUEST

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done                             

      But he with a chuckle replied

That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one

      Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.

So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin

      On his face. If he worried he hid it.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

      That couldn’t be done, and he did it!

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;                

      At least no one ever has done it;”

But he took off his coat and he took off his hat

      And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,

      Without any doubting or quiddit,                               

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

      That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,

      There are thousands to prophesy failure,                  

There are thousands to point out to you one by one,

      The dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,

      Just take off your coat and go to it;

Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing

      That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.

Remember this for later: The nemesis was the antithesis of the protagonist.