A Separate Peace Final Paper

Throughout A Separate Peace you wrote journals to connect major parts of

the story to your beliefs and real-life experiences. For the final paper, you will
be choosing one of the prompts you wrote about and expanding on it.

The prompts you wrote about were:

What are characteristics of a good friend and/or a bad
friend?
How can jumping to conclusions lead to serious
consequences?
How do pressures for teenagers in todays society compare
to the pressures teenagers faced in WWII?
When is a time that you had to deal with loss and how did
you deal with it?

Your job is to expand on this prompt and use two or more sources
(one being A Separate Peace) to support your claim.

Paper Expectations:

MLA format
12pt Times New Roman Font
Double Spaced
At least two sources
At least one quote from each source (correctly introduced and explained)
2-3 pages
No grammar errors
Grading rubric
10 pts 9-7 pts 6-4 pts 3-0 pts
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