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WEEK FOUR (Date for Week FOUR)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

Assignment 6:  

This next essay assignment, LINK TO ESSAY TWO, is creative nonfiction. In other words, you are allowed great freedom of creativity and imagination, but it must be based on fact.  Choose one topic. Make sure it's clear which one you have chosen. Send me 1000 words of a rough draft.    Sample topics include:

• In 2017, the United States moved over to an at-home learning system for all students. This saved a lot of money on buildings, utilities, and transportation for the government. Instead of holding classes in school buildings, all students are now educated from home using communications technology. Reese is a teenager who lives in a log cabin in a remote valley. Describe a typical "school" day for him. What types of technology does he use to receive his education? How does he interact with his friends and other students? What are his teachers like and how does he get help with his homework?
• You are the Public Relations Officer of a new ocean liner called the Germino that has been patterned after the Titanic. The ship has new technology onboard which will make the original Titanic disaster truly a thing of the past. Your job is to convince the public that the ship is safe, and to make it a much sought after cruise. With your professional expertise, how will you make the Hercules the most fashionable ship of the turn of the century? What will you say to the public about the ship's new technology? How will you get the message out to the public using communications technology?
• Your Great Aunt Sally has left you an old community newspaper, the Gold Country Bee, in her will. Not a lot of money has been invested in this newspaper. Aunt Sally only published it when she felt like it, and it didn't make any money. As a matter of fact, its books are in the red right now. It has been your lifelong dream to own a newspaper, and here's your chance. You decide to keep the newspaper and make it a success.   In order to make more money, you need more advertisers and you need more readers. How will you make the Gold Country Bee a success? What communications technology will you use in your new business?

The essay requires 1000 to 1500 words. A very successful essay will require creativity and cleverness.  You must write much more than the required word count to actually achieve some measure of those qualities.

                                                                                                                                                                  Reading Assignment                                    Journal

Assignment 2:    The British Novel

       1.    The Turn of the Screw, 1984.  Chapters 16-20 of aforementioned literary work and respond in your Dialectical Reading Journal.

        NOTE:    The entire novel can be found online at The Turn of the Screw.