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Task one: Directions You will create 3 sentences on your page that have:

1. At least one that is a simple sentence in which you must include the type of clause, NP, VP, and 1 singular noun with the possessive apostrophe. 2. At least one that is a compound sentence in which must include the type of clause, NP, VP, PP and 1 singular noun and 2 plural nouns with the possessive apostrophe. 3. At least one that is a compound complex sentence include the type of clause, NP, VP, PP and 2 singular noun and 3 plural nouns with the possessive apostrophe.

Assignment: Key Noun phrase Verb phrase Singular noun with possessive apostrophe Prepositional phrase 1. The shoe 's ran down the street.





2. Holly accidentally kicked the dog s' toys under the cushions'.

3. The dog s' were running and their toy s' slid under the cushion s ' this morning and I was not happy about having to get them.



Task two Today you will review your scores and remarks of your in class and out of class AIMS essays. In this reflection include the following: 1. Your strengths as a writer in persuasive, narrative, and expository essays. 2. Your weakness's as a writer in persuasive, narrative, and expository essays. 3. What goal are you setting for yourself as a writer in order to EXCEED AIMS?

Strengths: -In persuasive essays my strengths are ideas, and organization because I have many ideas. I can easily come up with things that relate to the topic. I can find support based on opinions and facts that I've thought of in the past. Its important to bring up past things and relate everything to the current topic. -In narrative essays my main strength is organization because i can put everything in a logical order. I can make things occur in a order that makes sense to the audience. -In expository essays my strength is also Ideas because I usually can connect things really well. Weaknesses: -In persuasive essays I have issues with grammer because I always seem to accidently mess the spelling up. -In narrative essays my weakness are word choice because its hard to show my experiences with wordds. -In expository essays my weakness is organization because its more difficult it seems in expository essays. Goals My goals to change my writing for aims is to get better ideas, and work on increasing my word choice. If I fix my word choice and Ideas my scores will go up and I will do better in general.

Feb 14th, 2011 Read the following poem by Langston Hughes and complete this task below:

//I, Too// By Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then.

Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-

I, too, am America.

1. Define Imagery. **Imagery is a figurative description or illustration.** 1a. List the words of Imagery. **darker brother**, **Kitchen, eat well, grow strong, and beautiful.** 1b. Explain how these words create your image/ experience of the poem. **These words create a picture for me. I see a boy because of brother, and a man who eats a lot for eat well and grow strong.**

2. Define Metaphor. **Metaphor is comparing two things without using like or as.** 2a. List the most important metaphor. **America and eating in the kitchen.** 2b. Explain how the metaphor best display's the poem's overall meaning of equality. **It almost is like the author is saying a brother is being forced to eat in the kitchen when all the adults are in the dining room. Then he grows up and he makes the decision that he wants to eat in the dining room too**. **So he does and all the adults see how great he is.**

3. Define Symbol. **An object that stands for something else.** 3a. List the major symbol of the poem. **My best guess for the symbol of this poem is America because everything relates back to it. It could also be the young boy eating at the dinner table and growing up to be really great and able to eat with the adults.** 3b. Fill in the blanks below: Langston Hughes uses the symbol of **Young boys eating at the dinner table** to display **how america has grown from a little kid to a full adult who is a country. America isnt a small baby country anymore, it's a massive, strong country. This poem is about it's progression from a baby to a strong and beautiful adult.** 2-3 sentences).