English II Free-Choice Reading Assignment

To be terrific, you must be specific!

Compose a response of at least two word-processed pages in which you address one of these prompts. Use the book title and the prompt number as the title of your composition. Complete your work in correct manuscript form, and obey The Thirteen Commandments.

• Select a small passage you find especially significant to the work as a whole in terms of its “so what.” Copy the passage, making sure to indicate the page number in a parenthetical reference. Discuss the significance of the passage in detail by referring to other related parts of the book.

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• Write about some theme or idea or conflict or value in the book that you think is especially American in nature. To address this prompt, ask yourself what characteristics, values, issues, problems, and the like that you associate with Americans and American culture. Write about the one truly American characteristic you identify in the text.