Assessment 28A: Focusing Question Task 3 Purpose: This task will give you a chance to show your understanding of themes in Love That Dog by Sharon Creech. Doing this task will also help you prepare for the End-of-Module Task, which you will complete when we finish our study of great heart. Introduction: We have been reading Love That Dog and learning how the main character, Jack, changes from the beginning to the end of the school year. We have also discussed themes in Jack's poetry and in the book as a whole. Task: For an audience who has read and studied the book Love That Dog as you have, write an informative paragraph in which you identify one theme of Love That Dog and explain how the author develops this theme by showing a change in Jack from the beginning to the end of the school year. Develop your ideas with evidence and examples from Love That Dog by Sharon Creech. Checklist for Success Your paragraph should include the following: An introduction that provides context. A focus statement that states the big idea, a theme of Love That Dog. A supporting point that describes a change in Jack that relates to the theme. Evidence from the text that shows the change in Jack Elaboration on how the evidence connects to the theme. A concluding statement that connects back to the big idea, the theme of Love That Dog and how Jack changes. - A pair of adjectives, ordered correctly. Correct capitalization and punctuation. (Be sure to punctuate quotations correctly!)

i think it is called the president's cabinet.

maybe attach the passage in case, someone has never read it!

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hope this

-sawyer

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the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).