To practice using formal and informal style, write two short paragraphs in your journal summarizing a topic on the Civil War (3-4 sentences). Write one paragraph as if you are writing for a textbook on the
Civil War. Write the second paragraph as if you creating a video script for young kids to get them
interested in the Civil War.

Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings. unoriginal well-groomed numerous he was a gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored and imperially slim. (from "richard cory" by edwin arlington robinson) this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties. (from "we wear the mask" by paul lawrence dunbar) . .if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. when they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand. . (from "poetry" by marianne moore)