• think about the last time you needed to work in a small group. what was it you were supposed to do, a project, an activity, plan an event, solve a
problem, etc.? was the end result of your working together productive or unproductive? why do you think this was so? were you the leader of the
group? if not, could you tell who the group leader was? how? did the direction the group took in terms of completing the task align with how you
thought the task should be completed? why or why not?

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up

Assignment first, create an outline that organizes the major events of samuel beckett's endgame into a traditional frve act structure your outline must include explanations for why you chose the events you did in each act second, write a paragraph that analyzes how endgame's structure affects its overall meaning.

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.