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• Read the prompt below. Decide how you want to approach the topic. Then write a narrative response. You have 30 minutes to complete this assignment. Your assignment will be graded based on the Narrative Prompt Grading Rubric. The rubric can be found in your Unit Resources.

Prompt

As much as humans like to control their own lives, there are many aspects that are outside of our control. For example, we do not choose the families into which we are born or the places where we grow up. The same is sometimes true of friendships. Some friends we choose because we identify them as people who are similar to us and because they offer us something we want. Occasionally, however, we make unexpected friends. For example, a young person bumps into someone at the library who is crying because she has lost an important paper she was writing for school. As a result, the two become friends and learn that helping people through tough times is at the core of strong relationships.

Assignment

Tell the story of a time you made an “unexpected” friend and learned something important from that friend. In your response, be sure to explain how the friendship came about and the ways in which this friendship taught you something.

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Graded Assignment

Unit Test: Love Sonnets

Answer the questions below in complete sentences. You may consult your Journeys anthology while writing your responses.

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• Why might Sonnet 18 by Francesco Petrarcha be interpreted as a poem about defeat as much as a poem about love? Use specific examples from the text in your response.
• Read Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare now. It is located on page 73 of your Journeys anthology. What elements of this sonnet are unusual? Where is the volta, or turn, in the poem? How does the poem change at the volta? What is the central theme of the work?
• Read Sonnet 13 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning now. It is located on page 76 of your Journeys anthology. What does this poem say the beloved wants the speaker to do? How does she respond to his request? What does her response suggest about her and about her feelings for her beloved? Use examples from the text in your response.

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