Good day, class.
This week we focus on using summary and description and direct quotation to present the contents of a book, several chapters of which I distributed last week. You are to join in, so to speak, with conversation on the topic and ideas addressed by author P.M. Forni in his book Choosing Civility. Throughout, Forni discusses the power our attitudes, words, tone of voice, and body language can have on others and ourselves. In the essay assigned, you are to introduce the text by author and title and use one or more examples of the text in direct quotation to illustrate and support your essay summary and response points. Title the essay with your own particular words. Develop it in three paragraphs or more, 350 words or more (essay 4).
The midterm (essay 5) will be returned today (good work, students!).
Essay 6, which we will start next week, focuses on verb forms and use. You will describe in hypothetical terms a wish or desire or conditional situation that allows you to show use of the subjunctive verb mood and conditional verb tenses, those employing clauses such as if I had, if I were, and the modal verb forms would, could, might, ought, and so on (see last week's post for the full discussion of the assignment). We shall look at verb conjugations and use today for practice and homework.
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