Of Mice and Men We know now that writers always write with a purpose—even if it is simply to express themselves. As we read these stories of life and human rights issues, think about the reason the author writes, the techniques used to accomplish his or her purpose, and the audience for whom he or she writes.

Assessment Instructions
For this assessment you must state which book you have started reading. Attach a prediction to your statement about what human rights issue will be covered in your book. Explain why you believe this issue will be important in the story.

Examples of human rights issues include (but are not limited to):

Gender equality
Immigration laws
Child labor
Freedom
Access to health care or education
You must include evidence from your story that demonstrates how you made your prediction. This can be a quotation you copy from the book.

Your prediction does not have to be right! Simply read the chapters assigned for this lesson and then make an informed prediction about what human rights issue you believe will be most important in this story.

We know now that writers always write with a purpose—even if it is simply to express themselves. As we read these stories of life and human rights issues, think about the reason the author writes, the techniques used to accomplish his or her purpose, and the audience for whom he or she writes.

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source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen