Writing: Short Story

50 points

Your
assignment is to use your knowledge of the two stories to write a short
comparison and contrast essay. Your essay should be two paragraphs. One
paragraph will discuss the similarities between the stories, and the
other paragraph will discuss the differences between the stories.

Your discussions in both paragraphs should involve irony and theme. You
also should connect the themes of the stories to the life and death
theme of this unit. Also be aware that your teacher will be looking for
you to communicate your ideas effectively, so this will involve your
using complex sentences to vary sentence structures and subordinate
clauses to vary sentence openings and add detail to sentences.

Once you have completed a rough draft, submit your writing, along with a
rubric, to a peer in this course for feedback. Your coursemate should
fill in the appropriate box on the rubric with feedback. Use this
feedback to make changes to your draft.

When you submit your essay to your teacher for a grade, you should include the following:

• Evidence of prewriting (generating and organizing ideas)
• Evidence of a draft (should contain evidence of revision and editing)
• A completed rubric (Student Statement) with evidence of peer comments
• A final draft

Your assignment will not be graded unless all of these items are submitted.

The rubric will
be used to evaluate your writing. Your coursemate will include feedback
about your essay on this rubric as well. You should carefully review
the rubric before you submit your paper for a final grade.

Submit your completed assignment to the Short Essay Assignment link for grading.