Reading Assignment: Please read the first 39 pages of Dear Mr. Henshaw
Writing Assignment: Write a paragraph or two describing Shirley’s character using at least two different adjectives. For each adjective you introduce, cite (mention) an event from the book and provide a quote that illustrates those adjectives. Please also identify where in the book the event or quote occurs. In other words, put a page number after the description or quotation.
While the assignment has three parts: (1) the adjectives (2) the event in the book and (3) the quotation, you don't have to do two and three in that order. You can put the quote first and the event second. Or you can write about the event and then provide the quote.
See example below.
For instance, if I were describing Shirley’s mom for this assignment, I would do it like this:
Example 1:
In the novel In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, the author Bette Bao Lord makes Shirley’s mother a character with two very different faces. She is both timid andbrave. (The adjectives) As Shirley says of her mother, “It was so like Mother to tame a den of tigers and then jump at the sound of a kitten’s meow.” (This is what I mean about using a quotation from the book to make your point).
(Here's the incident from the book.) Thus it’s not surprising that Shirley’s mother is fearless when she has to deliver a baby. She does it calmly and without fear (22). (This is what I mean by saying use an incident or event from the book to make your point) But when the lights go out and the fuses need to be replaced, Shirley’s mother is afraid to do it by herself (112). (Numbers in parentheses () indicate where in the book this happens)
I will send Example 2 via e-mail.
