Your rough drafts are due tomorrow (Wednesday). We will devote time in class to trading quotations and making sure everyone’s paper makes sense. You will type it at home on Wednesday, using your handy-dandy spell check to eliminate errors. The format is the same as always: 12pt Times New Roman, one inch margins, double-spaced, header (top left), title, page number (top right). Ask someone if you are unsure how to do this.

As always, if you have any questions please let me know.

If you did not turn in your three ads with analysis pages today, please do so tomorrow. I will take off some points for lateness, but that is better than a zero.

If you were absent Tuesday or Wednesday, get the rhetoric in advertising worksheet here. If you have any questions, email me or talk to me in class tomorrow.

We will be writing an essay on Friday over chapters 1-28, with an emphasis on content from 17-28. I have given you the prompt early for previous essays, but I will not be doing so this time. Your essays have improved dramatically since the beginning of the year, and I believe you can go into this one without knowing the prompt ahead of time. I want you to read closely and journal thoroughly in preparation for this exam. Remember:

• Write the name of the author (Nick Hornby) and title (About a Boy [underlined])
• Thesis statements are important. They should let your reader know how you will answer the prompt.
• Quotations from the text are necessary. Include page number and author for each quotation: (Hornby 7).
• Cover the story up to chapter 28. We are near the end of the novel, so everything is important.
• Watch grammar, spelling (look it up if you don’t know) and punctuation.
• Personal pronouns and contractions should never be used.