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questions before the holidays, please see Ms. Whitehead by 4:00 p.m. on December 17th. Happy writing!
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    Assignment: Character Diaries
    Choose your favorite character from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and write a diary entry referencing a scene from the play. Your diary entry should demonstrate your understanding of the material we have covered and show some insight into how the character may be feeling at a certain moment in the play.
    Due: December 9
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    Peer Tutoring Program—Progress Report
    Session: December 7th
    Worked On: Shakespeare Diary Assignment
    We edited Robbie’s assignment. It went all right.
    â€”Arthur
    here is my assinement that Artie helped me with. He also moved around some sentences and made it sound more nice. We also worked on some better rhimes for my love pome. Here it is.
    â€”Robbie
    dear diary,
    I am in love with Hermia, but she is in love with Lysander. This is terrible. I try so hard to make her like me, but nothing works. I’ve known her forever. We’ve played sports together since we were in Italian kindergarten. But she just thinks of me as a friend and wants me to be in love with her friend Helena. Helena is ugly, and she told me that I was stupid and the worst shortstop she had ever seen. But Hermia is still really nice to me. I just wish she wasn’t running away with Lysander, because I get really bad hay fever in the forest, and it’s even worse at night.
    When I catch up with her and Lysander, I am going to give her this love poem that I wrote.
    Hermia Hermia. You are a beaut.
    I think you are nice. I think you are cute.
    I like your sweet smile. I like your round face.
    So go out with me now and show your good taste.
    Later Diary,
    Demetrius

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    December 8th
    Dear RJ,
    Today would have been my mom’s birthday. I stayed home from school and Dad stayed home from work. It was weird. Neither of us really wanted to do anything. I just wanted to stay in bed and read a book or something, and I think Dad probably wanted to just sit in his room too. But then that felt weird too, so we went and got flowers and went to the cemetery.
    I don’t know what to say to my dad when he is so quiet, so I didn’t say anything. He didn’t say anything either. Neither of us said anything, we just put the roses down and stood there.
    It was freezing outside. I really just wanted to leave because I had forgotten my mittens. It started to snow too, and normally I like snow because it makes the city quiet, but today it made the cemetery even quieter and weirder. The worst part was when I thought about how Mom was always talking a lot, and how it would have been better if she was there to make it less awkward.
    Yours truly,
    Arthur Bean
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    Demetrius’s Diary
    By Arthur Bean
    Dear Diary,
    Oh, Hermia, your smile is so great
    And your teeth are so white and so straight.
    You come from a country shaped like a boot
    And your laugh is so pretty and your face is so cute.
    Will you be my girlfriend and then maybe my wife?
    For I know I will love you the rest of my life.
    This is the love poem I would like to give Hermia. Alas, I cannot, for she is in love with Lysander. I think it’s sad that she’s in love with him, when I have clearly loved her since I met her in Italian gym class so long ago. Hermia thinks I should be in love with Helena, but Helena looks like a horse, with giant teeth and a long nose. I love Hermia.
    I will have to follow her and Lysander into the forest tonight and give her my love poem.
    Arthur,
    Your assignment is remarkably similar to Robbie’s work, using an identical style, the same themes, and identical characters. Please see me after class to explain these similarities, keeping in mind that plagiarism can be of both published and unpublished works. I take this very seriously, and expect that you will too. I hope that your burst of creativity in this