1. Draft the summary for The Odyssey Part 1, The Odyssey Part 2, The Odyssey Part 3, or Orpheus and Eurydice. Remember to use your own words and to focus only on important informatio
2. Refer to the strategies on pp. 294–297 in The Essential Guide to Language, Writing, & Literature to construct powerful paragraphs for your summary. Take note of the specific tips about
writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence. Working on the draft you completed earlier, revise and edit the summary for the use of the literary present tense
and for chronological order. Make sure that sentences are clear, concise, and varied in structure.

It is very important to promote self esteem in young children

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Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt