1. Describe briefly (two sentences max.) any situation or event you thought funny or disturbing in a movie or serial TV show you've seen recently (a TV series, that is, with actors, not a talk show, news show, etc.).
 
 
 
 

2. Introduce a quotation from Linda Pastan's poem on pp. 888-89 of our Norton text (available here online)
 
 
 
 
 

3. Introduce the following quote from Lorraine Hansberry's play in our text: "Just tell me where you want to go to school and you'll go" (1982).
 
 
 
 
 

4. Introduce the following passage from Susan Glaspell's play in our Norton text:  "Somebody--wrung--its--neck" (1321). [This speech is Mrs. Peters's, about 4/5 down the page, just above indented stage directions.]
 
 
 
 
 

5. Underline or put in quote marks the following titles:

a. The Simpsons [TV show]
b. I Could Not Stop for Death [poem]
c. Trifles
d. Ms. Magazine
e. Macbeth
f. Are There Traditional Families Still? [essay]
g. Chipper Jones Goes Yard [an article], from USA Today
h. Pygmalion [play]
i. The Scarlet Letter
j. Gone With the Wind [the movie]

Rewrite #'s 6-8, punctuating as needed (do not remove any of the quotation marks):
6) The closest Mom comes to swearing is saying "shoot" "darn" "Jiminey" or "Jumping Jehoshaphat"
 
 
 
 
 

7) Little Ryan's favorite question is "Why"
 
 
 
 
 

8) Did George Bush really say "No freakin' way"
 
 
 
 
 

9. Introduce and quote lines from any play or poem in our Norton text, using ellipsis to indicate that you have left out words from within a single sentence.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

10. Introduce and quote lines from any play or poem in our Norton text, using ellipsis to indicate that you have left out an entire sentence or more.