English 9 Weekend Assignment: summary #2

Honors 9:
Read this guide


Summarize Balzar's essay in 4 paragraphs, using same rules as last assignment.
THEN
Revise your draft for use of quotations, following the 4 new "rules for incorporating quotes" as detailed on the guidefor new rules on this guide for Monday!

Regular English 9:
Using your class notes, summarize Balzar's opinion piece in no more than 1 1/4 pages>

+Make sure to open with his overall Thesis or main idea.
+Make sure that the topic sentence/opening sentence of each paragraph (it will be the second sentence of your first paragraph) clarifies his main idea for each of the four main ideas of the essay.

+FOLLOW the same 5 general rules as the last assignment; practice these rules!
(THINKING=GOOD!)

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