50 points

Yourassignment is to use your knowledge of the two stories to write a shortcomparison and contrast essay. Your essay should be two paragraphs. Oneparagraph will discuss the similarities between the stories, and theother paragraph will discuss the differences between the stories.

Your discussions in both paragraphs should involve irony and theme. Youalso should connect the themes of the stories to the life and deaththeme of this unit. Also be aware that your teacher will be looking foryou to communicate your ideas effectively, so this will involve yourusing complex sentences to vary sentence structures and subordinateclauses to vary sentence openings and add detail to sentences.

Once you have completed a rough draft, submit your writing, along with arubric, to a peer in this course for feedback. Your coursemate shouldfill in the appropriate box on the rubric with feedback. Use thisfeedback to make changes to your draft.

When you submit your essay to your teacher for a grade, you should include the following:

• Evidence of prewriting (generating and organizing ideas)
• Evidence of a draft (should contain evidence of revision and editing)
• A completed rubric (Student Statement) with evidence of peer comments
• A final draft

Your assignment will not be graded unless all of these items are submitted.

The rubric willbe used to evaluate your writing. Your coursemate will include feedbackabout your essay on this rubric as well. You should carefully reviewthe rubric before you submit your paper for a final grade.

Submit your completed assignment to the Short Essay Assignment link for grading.