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Personality
Is your personality more like your mother’s or your father’s?
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The New House
“The New House” by Maya Angelou is a simple poem about what we leave behind in places where we have lived. Theme: The mark of one’s personality or soul is left behind in places where one has lived. Techniques: internal rhyme, onomatopoeia, rhetorical questions. Issues: Do people exist beyond a physical presence? Write as many…
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Response to Novel or Story
Create a sculpture of a character. Use any combination of soap, wood, clay, sticks, wire, stones, old toy pieces, or any other object. An explanation of how this character fits into the book should accompany the sculpture. Interview a character from your book. Write at least ten questions that will give the character the opportunity…
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“Since you been gone”
Write about a time when a friend or relative returned from an absence and seemed to have a very different personality. Did you believe that the change was real? What circumstances might cause a person to change greatly in a short period of time?