Post your introduction here.

Post your thesis statement for our R and J essay here.

Choose ONE of the following questions to respond to in a full paragraph with a topic sentence.
 

• Romeo falls in love with Juliet immediately upon seeing her.  Do you believe
  in love at first sight?
• In 1.5 and 2.2, Juliet and Romeo insist on keeping their love secret.  They
  believe that privacy is essential to their love being genuine.  Given facebook,
  twitter, etc., do you feel the state of privacy in the USA is in shambles or
  ok?
• In Mercutio's Queen Mab speech in 1.4 and Juliet and Romeo's sonnet in 1.5,
  language takes on a magical power--the power to transform the world, the power
  to create new worlds.  Do you believe language has this power?  Why?

Post the introduction for your Odyssey Essay here.

Post your thesis statement for the Odyssey Essay here.

Post your First Paragraph for the This I Believe Essay here.

Post one, two or three ideas you have for this essay.  What core value might you try to elucidate?  What central idea might your essay revolve around?  What belief that is meaningful to you might you try to articulate through this essay?  [all these questions are asking the same thing...]

Post your introduction for your persuasive essay here.

Post your thesis statement for your persuasive essay here.

After reading "A Woman on a Roof," write 3 sentences on how each of the four literary theories might interpret this story.  Your response should be 12 sentences in total.