Thursday, February 26, 2009

9B Homework Assignment

This weekend, write an outline for a 2 page essay answering this question:

What are some ways that you, as a young person, can be faithful in your life? How can doing those things benefit you now? How can those things prepare you for the future?

Your essay should be divided into three sections:

1. Introduction (with thesis statement)

2. Body

3. Conclusion

In your outline, you should write down the topic sentences of each section or paragraph within your essay so that you can have a clear framework set up for when you write your essay, and the paragraphs within your body should directly relate to the thesis statement in your introduction.

I will give you further instruction about this in class next week.

The first draft of your essay will be due March 9th.

* Many of you have asked about the meaning of faithful: I want you to write about how you can stay COMMITTED to different things in your life at this moment. I recommend that you write about being faithful in several different areas of your life, not simply just one area.

For example, some of you may want to stay committed to studying English, even though it is difficult for you, because you know that someday, it will benefit you to be bilingual.

Some of you may want to focus on being faithful to God. It is easy to follow God when everything in your life is going perfectly, but it takes real focus and commitment to stay faithful when sad or difficult things happen. Maybe some of you want to practice being faithful to Him even when your life is not easy.

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