Today's Agenda:

For Today:
1. Finish yesterday's discussion of "insightful" commentary of "Richard Cory"
2. Work on the following 2 worksheets: The colon/semicolon and paraphrasing

Turn in all three papers by the end of class today.

Examples:The Colon--first read the "key information" 
1. The ingredients for s'mores are as follows one box of graham crackers, ten milk chocolate bars, and a bag of marshmallows.
2. I still need to buy Christmas presents for Susan, Tricia, Sarie and Katie.
3. To perform this experiment, you need these things a thin piece of cork, red dye, a slide with cover, and a microscope.
4. Smoking has been shown to cause heart disease, emphysema, lung cancer, and complications during pregnancy.

Semicolon:
1. I really enjoy reading the poetry of John Donne; Gerard Manley Hopkins; and W.B. Yeats.

2. Last year Paul visited New York City and saw the Empire State Building, which didn't impress him, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in which he spent one whole day, and Rockefeller Center, where he tried to ice-skate but sprained his ankle right away.