• Semester-long Opportunity: Make an appointment to have a consultant at the Writing Center review one of your drafts of a major essay using the Writing Center Moodle site. After your appointment, ask your writing specialist to stamp your draft with the Writing Center stamp, or otherwise give you a written record of your appointment. Show me this documentation, and you will receive a check plus daily grade to replace your lowest BP/quiz/daily assignment grade. You may take advantage of this extra credit opportunity for two of your essays during the semester.

  • Unit 1: Many of the works we have read for this first portion of the semester have dealt with family relationships. Select a literary work from this unit that you enjoyed. Write a personal letter from one of the characters in the work to another, exploring one of these relationships. Use the text of your letter to fill in details that are left unsaid in the work, to take relationships further, or to add a new twist to what the author intended. Be creative and use your imagination. Your letter should be approximately one page, double-spaced. Use casual letter format. You may receive *up to* 5 points of extra credit on your Essay #1 grade by turning this assignment by class time on Tues, February 28.