"pecola believes that people will love her and treat her differently if she has blue eyes.” defend and prove this statement using evidence from the text.
1. what is the prompt asking us to do?
2. what will we need to include/prove in order to accomplish this task?
3. how do we know that pecola feels unloved? by whom?
4. how do we know that she longs for blue eyes?
5. how do we know that she believes having blue eyes leads to love and happiness? (be sure di*k and jane, mary jane, shirley temple, and maureen all get worked in here) cite text evidence for each.
6. how does this relate to the theme of beauty?

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.

Which best expresses the irony present in this passage?

This passage contains repeated allusions to all the following except. a.sailing b.suitors c.hunting d.dreams