RST for Michael Jordan: A Profile In Failure, Lessons From Failure: Why We Try, Try Again and
the Famous Failures video.
Directions: You can use your notes from your previous notice and note assignments and the RST Graphic
Organizer to write your essay.
You have read two texts and watched a video that deal with the topic of failure. Write an essay that
compares the points of view of each author about the relationship between learning from failure and
future success. Support your ideas with evidence from all three sources.

What type of essay would I be writing?

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky