Blizzard Bag assignment
10th Grade: Holocaust
After viewing the movie “Paperclips”, write an essay about the following:
How, as a society and as individuals, can we be more tolerant to be sure that
this kind of hate will not happen again?
Before writing your essay, think about what you want to say and how you want to
organize your information.
Your essay should:
- Be 2 ½ -4 pages in length
- Be typed and double spaced, 12 point font
- Have a formal MLA style heading in the top left corner (name, date, class)
- Have an appropriate title
- Have an introduction which includes a strong thesis statement
- Have body paragraphs which have topic sentences and focus on the specific
aspects you wish to discuss that relate to your thesis statement
- Have a conclusion which summarizes your ideas, restates your thesis, and
brings your essay to a close.
- Be edited for grammar and spelling mistakes
- Be submitted via tbrown@windham-schools.org or be printed out and
handed in on the assigned day.
Your essay will be due on: MONDAY, APRIL 28th, 2014
Blizzard Bag assignment
10th Grade Honors: Holocaust
After viewing the movie “Paperclips”, write an essay about the following:
How, as a society and as individuals, can we be more tolerant to be sure that
this kind of hate will not happen again?
Before writing your essay, think about what you want to say and how you want to
organize your information.
Your essay should:
- Be 3-4 pages in length
- Be typed and double spaced, 12 point font
- Have a formal MLA style heading in the top left corner (name, date, class)
- Have an appropriate title
- Have an introduction which includes a strong thesis statement
- Have body paragraphs which have topic sentences and focus on the specific
aspects you wish to discuss that relate to your thesis statement
- Have a conclusion which summarizes your ideas, restates your thesis, and
brings your essay to a close.
- Be edited for grammar and spelling mistakes
- Be submitted via tbrown@windham-schools.org or be printed out and
handed in on the assigned day.
Your essay will be due on: MONDAY, APRIL 28th, 2014
Blizzard Bag assignment
11th Grade: Animal Farm
Your assignment will tie into the unit we will be covering the rest of the semester.
Your job will be to read the following quote and write an essay using the response
guidelines below:
“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” –George Orwell
Explain this quote and how it relates to history and the future. Use specific
examples to support your response.
Before writing your essay, think about what you want to say and how you want to
organize your information.
Your essay should:
- Be 2 ½ -4 pages in length
- Be typed and double spaced, 12 point font
- Have a formal MLA style heading in the top left corner (name, date, class)
- Have an appropriate title
- Have an introduction which includes a strong thesis statement
- Have body paragraphs which have topic sentences and focus on the specific
aspects you wish to discuss that relate to your thesis statement
- Have a conclusion which summarizes your ideas, restates your thesis, and
brings your essay to a close.
- Be edited for grammar and spelling mistakes
- Be submitted via tbrown@windham-schools.org or be printed out and
handed in on the assigned day.
Your essay will be due on: MONDAY, APRIL 28th, 2014
Blizzard Bag assignment
11th Grade Honors: Poetry
Read the attached poem. Next to each stanza, jot down the deeper meaning
behind it and any questions the poem may raise in your mind.
Then, write an essay about how the poem’s meaning relates to life. What can it
teach us? What was the author trying to say? Use details and examples as well
as quotes from the poem to support.
Before writing your essay, think about what you want to say and how you want to
organize your information. Be original in your ideas. Everyone will look at the
poem in a similar way, but how does it speak to you?
Your essay should:
- Be 2 ½ -4 pages in length
- Be typed and double spaced, 12 point font
- Have a formal MLA style heading in the top left corner (name, date, class)
- Have an appropriate title
- Have an introduction which includes a strong thesis statement
- Have body paragraphs which have topic sentences and focus on the specific
aspects you wish to discuss that relate to your thesis statement
- Have a conclusion which summarizes your ideas, restates your thesis, and
brings your essay to a close.
- Be edited for grammar and spelling mistakes
- Be submitted via tbrown@windham-schools.org or be printed out and
handed in on the assigned day.
Your essay will be due on: MONDAY, APRIL 28th, 2014
The Cold Within
Six humans trapped by happenstance
In bleak and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood
Or so the story’s told.
Their dying fire in need of logs
The first man held his back
For of the faces round the fire
He noticed one was black.
The next man looking ‘cross the way
Saw one not of his church
And couldn’t bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes.
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought
Of the wealth he had in store
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy shiftless poor.
The black man’s face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from his sight.
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn group
Did nought except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave
Was how he played the game.
Their logs held tight in death’s still hands
Was proof of human sin.
They didn’t die from the cold without
They died from the cold within.
Blizzard Bag assignment
12th Grade : Tuesdays with Morrie
Choose a quotation, taken from the novel Tuesdays with Morrie, from the list on
the back of this page. In an essay, explain this quotation, whether or not you
agree with it, and its relevance to your life. You may reference the novel if you
wish, as well as examples from your life and the world around you.
Before writing your essay, think about what you want to say and how you want to
organize your information. Choose a quote that you have a connection to one
that speaks to you as an individual.
Your essay should:
- Be 2 ½ -4 pages in length
- Be typed and double spaced, 12 point font
- Have a formal MLA style heading in the top left corner (name, date, class)
- Have an appropriate title
- Have an introduction which includes a strong thesis statement
- Have body paragraphs which have topic sentences and focus on the specific
aspects you wish to discuss that relate to your thesis statement
- Have a conclusion which summarizes your ideas, restates your thesis, and
brings your essay to a close.
- Be edited for grammar and spelling mistakes
- Be submitted via tbrown@windham-schools.org or be printed out and
handed in on the assigned day.
Your essay will be due on: MONDAY, APRIL 28th, 2014
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Creative Writing
After viewing the movie “Stranger than Fiction”, write an essay or story that
covers one of the following questions:
What is reality?
Does fate rule your life?
Before writing your essay or story, think about what you want to say and how you
want to organize your information. Choose a question that you can ponder and
come up with a creative way to present.
Your writing should:
- Be 2-3 pages in length
- Be typed and double spaced, 12 point font
- Have an appropriate title
- Be edited for grammar and spelling mistakes
- Be submitted via bomberink@gmail.com or be printed out and handed in
on the assigned day.
Your essay will be due on: MONDAY, APRIL 28th, 2014