Thursday, December 4, 2008

I'm sorry 2nd Period...

Here's the homework that you needed to do:
  • Choose an article from The New Yorker, The New York Times, or The Washington Post. These articles should be at least two pages long.
  • Choose any two page response that you've written from Blogger. Then compare each article according to the following items:
  • Total number of words
  • Total number of sentences
  • Longest sentence (number of words)
  • Shortest sentence (number of words)
  • Average sentence length
  • Percentage of sentences with more than ten words over the average
  • Number of sentences with more than five words below the average
  • Percentage of sentences with more than five words below the average
  • Paragraph length: Longest paragraph (#of sentences), shortest paragraph (# of sentences), average paragraph length (# of sentences)

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: PARAPHRASE 3-5 SONG LYRICS FROM THE SONG SHEET (REWRITE EACH LINE IN YOUR OWN WORDS)...THEN, IN A SHORT PARAGRAPH FOR EACH SONG THAT YOU PARAPHRASED, EXPLAIN HOW, EVEN THOUGH YOU KEPT THE 'MEANING', YOU'VE CHANGED THE TONE, INTERPRETATION, ETC.

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