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 the following quote from the narrative by William Bradford in our Norton text: "But it pleased God . . . to smite this young man with a grievous disease" (167). [First sentence starting on the page]
 
 
 
 
 

3. Introduce the following passage from Anne Bradstreet's poem about the two sisters, Flesh and Spirit: "This city pure is not for thee, / For things unclean there shall not be" (105-6). [Lines 105-6; see p. 262]
 
 
 
 
 

4. 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 5-7, punctuating as needed (do not remove any of the quotation marks):
5. The closest Mom comes to swearing is saying "shoot" "darn" "Jiminey" or "Jumping Jehoshaphat"
 
 
 
 
 

6. Little Ryan's favorite question is "Why"
 
 
 
 
 

7.Did George Bush really say "No freakin' way"
 
 
 
 
 

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

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