English 10 Semester 2 American Literature Name: ______

English 10 Semester 2 – American Literature Name: ______

“Everyday Use” Extended Response DUE on FRIDAY, February 1

Goal: Use prepositional phrases to add variety and interest to writing Write narratives to develop events using well structured event sequences

Examples of prepositional phrases:

“After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my bed and started rifling through it. Maggie hung back in the kitchen over the dishpan. Out came Wangero with two quilts. They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them.”

Directions: Deepen your understanding of “Everyday Use” by responding to the prompt below. Write your response on a clean sheet of loose leaf paper neatly in blue or black ink. Alternatively you may type your response if you choose. Use the revising tip to go back over your response to improve it. Staple this assignment sheet to the front of your response.

Writing Prompt: Extended Constructed Response, Story Sequel Imagine that Dee visits the family again ten years after the events in “Everyday Use.” Write one page showing what she, Mama, and Maggie are now like and how they interact. What conflicts between them are still unresolved?

Revising Tip: Review your response. How have you used prepositional phrases that show what, when, where, and how events take place in your story sequel?

Rubric for Grading:

Criteria 5 4 3 2 1 Development Effectively Develops and Introduces a Introduces a Has no identifiable develops, and resolves a conflict; conflict, but needs conflict but does conflict; resolves a conflict; characters have more not resolve it; characters are maintains some believable development; characters are underdeveloped believable traits characters are inadequately or unrealistic characters inconsistent developed Language Uses several Uses some varied Uses prepositional Needs more Does not use strong, varied prepositional phrases, but many prepositional prepositional prepositional phrases but could are repeated phrases to fully phrases or uses phrases to add be more variety develop the them incorrectly descriptive detail descriptive details to the events in the story Spelling Narrative is free of 1 spelling error 2-3 spelling errors 4-5 spelling errors More than 5 errors spelling errors Grammar Shows a strong A few errors in A few distracting Some significant Has many command of conventions errors in errors in distracting errors conventions conventions conventions in conventions

Total: ______/ 2 = ______/ 10 points