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Given the nature of the 2011 summer reading program, you had significant autonomy in selecting the books you would read. While you were responsible for completing a proposal, you were not given other assignments to complete over the summer. As indicated on your proposal form, you are required to write a letter to your 2011-12 Language Arts teacher that demonstrates your thoughtful reading of your book. We have chosen to break this down further into three focused "Power Paragraphs" for two reasons, one, to introduce you to the idea of a power paragraph, and two, to assist you in covering all aspects of the assignment.

__ Prompt for Paragraph One - A Reflection of Your Choice __ ** click edit and paste your response here ** I thouroughly enjoyed the book fight club, i saw the movie first and i thought to myslef, "i wonder if there is a book that came before the movie." i was right. i thought the movie and book were spot on examples of each other, the details were so much a like, probably because the author includes so much detail. i chose to read this because i saw the movie, i knew the book was going to be good when i chose to read it at the end of the year last year. in the end the book turned out to be a very good choice.
 * *Must be posted to the WIKI by midnight on Wednesday, 8/24 **

__ Prompt for Paragraph Two - A Discussion of What You Gained by Reading Your Book __ ** click edit and paste your response here ** Fight club in a way changed me, the book made me feel like anyone is capable of anything if they put their minds to it. it's unbelievable how much this book made me visualize how capable people actually are. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." (Palahniuk 54) this is one of the many quotes in the book that i find to be so true. It may be fiction but it sure has a lot of truth to it.
 * *Must be posted to the WIKI by midnight on Thursday, 8/25 **

__ Prompt for Paragraph Three - What to do With it... __ ** click edit and paste your response here ** //Fight club// is a good book for people who typically tend to question society and ask many "why" quistions, why they have to do something. My guess is more men would like this book than women because of the vulgarity, but there are women who can be just as disgusting as men. In the book Tyler durden develops project mayhem which in the end of it all, the whole world will be changed, governments completely demolished, the United States of America would have never existed because project mayhem would get rid of all the historical files. The book made me consider how possible certain things are and im more inspired to do the easy things in life which should have never seemed difficult in the first place.
 * *Must be posted to the WIKI by midnight on Sunday, 8/28 **


 * Scoring: Your three paragraphs will be given one overall grade, and the timeliness of your posts will be reflected in your "timeliness" grade. **

// An outstanding response to the prompts will include the following: //
 * A strong topic sentence that clearly establishes the focus on the prompt Good job establishing a unique focus for each paragraph
 * Evidence that clearly supports the topic sentence
 * Correct use of internal citations and a properly formatted MLA citation for your book (put this citation at the end of paragraph one) You need to cite the book (use Noodle Tools)
 * Strict adherence to the Power Paragraph format
 * Mechanics are clean and do not detract from meaning Be sure to take the time to edit and polish your work.