Prompt This is a writing assignment. Write complete thoughts using correct grammar and punctuation. Take a few minutes to review the material you have read and jot down some notes. Most students should be able to write for 10-15 minutes to complete this task. Then, review your writing and submit.

Reflect on the texts you have read so far. Imagine waiting for a delayed train (plane/bus) and meeting a student from another country who is interested to know all about what you have learned in your English class. Write about your impressions, connections, ability to relate (or not), to each of the texts you have read, as if you were telling this interested student.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.