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Semester 1 Final Essay Prompt Some people are actively involved in promoting and supporting a cause, such as the release of international political prisoners or protecting the environment. Is there a cause you actively support? How would a transcendentalist or romantic writer or thinker guide you in your decsion? Write an essay convincing readers to support that cause.

TONE! words: http://valenciacollege.edu/east/academicsuccess/eap/documents/tonewords.pdf

Your poem should be in the first person and represent some universal American experience You need to include at least three of the following techniques:
 * imagery
 * assonance
 * consonance
 * metaphor
 * repetition
 * lists

Does Whitman's view of life in "Song of Myself" reflect your experience as an American? (Please use claim > evidence > commentary formatting, as well as using repetition and word choice to show tone; annotate your final draft for this before the class ends today and submit it to Ms. Wilson.)

Here are the links for our Semester 1 Final Exam: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/21/technology/20101121-brain-interactive.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/21/technology/20101121-brain-teachers.html

Model questions/tests: http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/21/technology/20101121-brain-teachers.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/21/technology/20101121-brain-interactive.html

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