A UWF Writing Lab Mini-Lesson Mini-Lesson #19

The girl (her name is Becca) is terrified of thunderstorms. The diagram (see page twelve) shows Columbus, Georgia’s 2012 education budget. Mr. Scott has coached football for twenty-five years. (That’s longer than I’ve been alive.) Although he enjoys coaching all ages, he admits that his favorite level to coach is high school.

Medieval Europe was a place both of “raids, pillages, slavery, and extortion” and of “traveling merchants, monetary exchange, towns if not cities, and active markets in grain” (Townsend 10).* * 2009 MLA Handbook

Her essay on the United Nations discusses the organization’s (1) general history, (2) structure and current members, and (3) goals and activities.

Mr. McGregor said, “You [Peter Rabbit] had better never come back to my garden.” Charles Dickens wrote, “Bring in the bottled lightning [what is bottled lightning?], a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.” Thackeray said, “[I]f it [the world] beats you sometimes, dare it again, and it will succumb.” (Notice that the I is placed in brackets at the beginning of the quote; it was not capitalized in the original quotation.)

Like Water for Chocolate [Como agua para chocolate]. Screenplay by Laura Esquivel. Dir. Alfonso Arau. Perf. Lumi Cavazos, Marco Lombardi, and Regina Torne. Miramax, Film*

In 1598, William Shakespeare performed in the play Every Man in His Humour (by Ben Johnson [ ]), which was a great success.