For this assignment, you are going to persuade someone. You can choose any topic you want and any person or group of people. You will have three options for choosing how you persuade. Print Print
Print
A print project might take any of the following forms:

letter to a politician or government agency concerned with your chosen issue
pamphlet
blog post
essay expressing your argument
Audio Audio

Visual Visual

Remember, you choose the format. These are just ideas to help you brainstorm. Some of the ideas listed here may have an audio component as well; if your project has both audio and visual elements, please be sure to view the suggestions on the Audio and Visual tabs in each lesson. If you have an idea that is not listed here, please discuss it with your instructor.

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”