You will need to complete your paragraph for the Valley of Childish Things. The text is available here.
The assignment is below.
Valley of Childish Things Structured Writing Challenge
Topic: You will write a paragraph that presents a general summary (history knowledge) of the issues of women in the late 19th century and then uses the story of the “Valley of Childish Things” as specific evidence (literature knowledge) in your discussion.
Your paragraph should be a minimum of ¾ of a page long.
Your paragraph must:
• Only use forms of “to be” twice in the entire paragraph.
• Contain no examples of passive voice
• Contain one sentence that starts with a phrase
• Contain one sentence that starts with a dependent
clause.
• Contain one correctly used semicolon.
• Contain the following words/phrases (in any form)
o subtle
o exploration
o ironic
o condescending
o allegorical
o traditional
