Activity 1
1. Click the button on the right to go to the Edpuzzle website.
2. Sign up as a student (Create a user name and password that you will remember!) 3. Click "Join a Class". Use class code dwnyMm to join the class. 4. Watch the video and answer the questions for the assignment entitled "Analyzing a Writing Prompt." |
Activity 2
Analyze the following writing prompt. This is what you will write your essay about (due Thursday).
Washington Irving's short story, "The Devil and Tom Walker" comments on several themes that were relevant in the 19th century and continue to be relevant today: greed, hypocrisy, moral corruption, and religious intolerance. Choose one or two of these themes and explain the statement Irving makes about the theme(s). Explain how Irving uses at least two of the tenets of Romanticism: imagination, intuition, idealism, and individualism, to develop the theme.
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Write a thesis statement for the above writing prompt.
Remember that the thesis statement should be one sentence that concisely answers the question of the writing prompt.
Submit your thesis statement to the assignment on Schoology entitled TD&TW Thesis Statement.
Remember that the thesis statement should be one sentence that concisely answers the question of the writing prompt.
Submit your thesis statement to the assignment on Schoology entitled TD&TW Thesis Statement.