English IV – Spring Advance Assignment 

Updated June 2014

Required Advance Assignment:

Historical Context Research Assignment

Prior to exam day, complete the following assignment. Bring your finished project to the testing site and turn it in to your test administrator. Using your understanding of rhetorical methods used in Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal, select a topic related to a contemporary issue and write your own 3‐5 page satirical proposal.

Remember to:

• Use the elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) to compose your text.
• Revise your draft to improve style, word choice, figurative language, sentence variety, and subtlety of meaning.
• Edit your draft for grammar, mechanics, and spelling.

Important Note: You will need to refer to these texts in order to complete another part of the exam on the exam day, so you must bring them with you.  (Hard copies only; no electronic devices permitted.)

• Lord of the Flies
• 1984
• “A Modest Proposal”