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1) Check the Homework Page for the due date of each entry.
2) You may write the paper in "Word Pad", and then email me your information to mroche@penncharter.com. If you can't email me, then hand it in on paper.
	a) Must use Times New Roman Font
	b) Size 12 Print ( not Bold )
	c) 1 1/2 Spacing (not double spacing)
3) You may not click and paste information from the websites, it must be your own material!
4) Answer one journal entry each week. Journal entries are due on the first class day of each week.
	a) Late journals will drop a grade each day it is late.
	b) Each journal entry must be one page long.
	c) All the entries will be graded individually, then grouped together to make one final grade for the entries.

Entry Number One - 1 page
	Start by choosing a news article that interests you and write about why you chose this article.


Entry Number Two- 1 page
	Based on your article, choose a character to focus on and write about his/ her background. You can discuss one (or all ) of the topics:
	a)	The Family,
		who they live with, or does he/ she live alone,
		friends, love relationships, pets,
	b)	Religious background
	c)	Educational background
	d)	Goals, Dreams (What he / she most wants to do in life)
	e)	Worst Fear
	f)	Current job and / or dream job
	g)	Financial state (How much money does this person have)
	h)	Anything else you think is important about the character.


Entry Number Three- 1 page (or a two page scene)
	Based on your article, write either a
	a)	one page short story about the character, or a
	b)	two page scene
		- Click here to view a scene from "Back To the Future" script
		- Click here to see rules of how to write a scene
		- The script for Casablanca

Entry Number Four- 1 page
	Below are the Quaker Principles. Choose one of the principles and write either another short story or a new scene applying one of the principles. If you have questions, see Mr. Roche.

	Quaker Principles as defined by George Fox, an early Quaker (adapted from Introducing Quakers by Gordon Browne) God is directly accessible to all persons without the need of an intermediary priest or ritual; There is in all persons an in-dwelling Seed or Christ or Light (early Quakers used all these metaphors) which is of God and which, if they will but heed it, will guide them and shape their lives in accordance with the will of God; True religion cannot be learned from books or set prayers, words or rituals, which early Quakers called "empty forms," but comes only from direct experience of God, known through the Seed or Christ or Light within; The Scriptures can be understood only as one enters into the Spirit which gave them forth; There is an ocean of darkness and death-of sin and misery- over the world but also an ocean of light and love, which flows over the ocean and darkness, revealing the infinite love of God; The power and love of God are over all, erasing the artificial division between the secular and religious so that all of life, when lived in the Spirit, becomes sacramental. The traditional outward sacraments, again characterized as empty forms, are to be discarded in favor of the spiritual reality they symbolize. Out of the general Quaker principles enunciated above have grown some specific applications which Friends call their testimonies. Though they manifest themselves in a variety of ways, the testimonies are basically four: * Equality * Peace * Simplicity * Community *

Entry Number Five - 1 pages
	Make a collage on posterboard using images and words that you feel represent your character. Make sure the images are big enough that everyone can see it when you hold it up in class.

That being said and done, it's not as difficult as it looks.
Just make sure to be creative and enjoy yourself.
...And don't wait until the last minute.