Take 20 minutes to plan and generate ideas to include in your letter using one of the brainstorming strategies you learned about in the lesson. Think about specific details and examples from the text to include. Your connection and reaction to those details and examples will be your commentary. Keep in mind that this isn’t a book report or a fan letter. Think of it as a conversation with the author about your connection to the text. So, include the details that mean something to you. Write down all the ideas you think of during your brainstorming session. Don’t worry about using precise words and grammatically correct sentences.

For this assignment, you will create a multimedia presentation in response to the following prompt: research suggests that laughter improves people’s emotional and physical well-being. create a multimedia presentation to inform the audience about the positive effects of laughter on emotional and physical health.

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.

Write a 250-word essay in which you explain the theme of women’s strength and bravery in the poem.