Homework: Due Monday, 30 September!
You must bring your Language and Composition textbook home for this assignment. Leave your textbook at home until directed to bring it to class.

Read Terrors Purse Strings  by Dana Thomas (109-111). You must click on the title of this essay to download and print. read "carefully" the directions provided in the "ACTIVITY" box on page 109. You must turn in your "annotated" copy (no highlighting) and your written response to what you were directed to do as indicated in the directions.

Grammar as Rhetoric and Style:
"Appositives"  (pages 269-276)
Complete Exercises #1 (272) and  #3 (274)-Skip a "space/line" after each response/sentence. (Do NOT upload assignment to turnitin.com.)

HOMEWORK DUE: Tuesday, 1 October
Read So-o-o-o-o-o Sorry: The Art of the Apology and write a reaction/reflection to Hebble's essay. (Any "revelations" that perhaps, you had not previously thought about...you may want to consider how she addresses you the "reader" and your subsequent responses-where in the essay did you pause to "reflect" and/or "reconsider" saying the word "Sorry". Do not ask me about the length of this response...OR say, "I am sorry Mr. Diedrich I do not have the assignment to turn-in". No need to upload to turnitin! https://s3.amazonaws.com/engrade-myfiles/4076737320983489/Soo_Sorry.doc (Just in case you experience difficulty opening the above link-title of essay.)