For next Tuesday

In your red and white MPH English 9 anthology, read twice and annotate Brian Doyle's "Joyas Voladoras." Then, complete all of the following exercises. Be sure to use directly quoted material to support your answers for numbers 1-3 (see pp. 69-70 in your grammar books to see the proper format for quoting from the essay).

1. What is different about the hummingbird and the blue whale?

2. How is Doyle's writing about the hummingbird different from his writing about the blue whale? 

3. Re-read the essay, but skip the sixth fourth paragraph (about the blue whale). What does the paragraph on the blue whale add to the essay?

4.  Write two paragraphs that contrast two related but different things that you're familiar with, e.g., a favorite pen and pencil, two pets, two plants, two rooms in your home, two siblings, two parents, two favorite drinking glasses, two classes you take at MPH, and so on. Use the kind of descriptive language you've read in the Twain and Doyle essays.