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Unit 6: Much Ado About Nothing			STUDENT GROWTH WRITING
TASK: Use the following passage to answer the prompt for your on-demand writing from Act 5 Scene 2.

Scene 2: Enter Benedick and Margaret.
BENEDICK Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve
well at my hands by helping me to the speech of 
Beatrice.
MARGARET Will you then write me a sonnet in praise 
of my beauty? 						5
BENEDICK In so high a style, Margaret, that no man 
living shall come over it, for in most comely truth 
thou deservest it.
MARGARET To have no man come over me? Why, shall I
always keep below stairs? 					10
BENEDICK Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound’s 
mouth; it catches.
MARGARET And yours as blunt as the fencer’s foils, 
which hit but hurt not.
BENEDICK A most manly wit, Margaret; it will not hurt 		15 
a woman. And so, I pray thee, call Beatrice. I give
thee the bucklers.
MARGARET Give us the swords; we have bucklers of our 
own.
BENEDICK If you use them, Margaret, you must put in 		20 
the pikes with a vice, and they are dangerous
weapons for maids.
MARGARET Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I
 think hath legs.
BENEDICK And therefore will come. 					25
Margaret exits.
[Sings] The god of love 
That sits above, 
And knows me, and knows me, 
How pitiful I deserve—
I mean in singing. But in loving, Leander the good 		30 
swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and
a whole book full of these quondam carpetmongers,
whose names yet run smoothly in the even
road of a blank verse, why, they were never so truly
turned over and over as my poor self in love. Marry, 	35 
I cannot show it in rhyme. I have tried. I can find out
no rhyme to “lady” but “baby”—an innocent
rhyme; for “scorn,” “horn”—a hard rhyme; for
“school,” “fool”—a babbling rhyme; very ominous
endings. No, I was not born under a rhyming 		40 
planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
Directions: Answer one of the following prompts with a thematic idea and apply it to the text using evidence from the passage above.
Describe a commentary about love that Shakespeare is making in this play. How does he use comedy to do so?
How does Shakespeare’s play relate to a modern audience? Use a thematic idea demonstrated in Margaret and Benedick’s words that connect to a modern audience.

In the space below, write a one- quote paragraph to argue a claim addressing one of the prompts demonstrating clear significance with an embedded quote from the preceding Act 5 Scene 4 passage:
Use your claim as your topic sentence. Be sure to demonstrate clear significance to set your analysis up for success: 
Include a comedic device: wit, irony, hyperbole, pun, parody, bombast, malapropism, slapstick, rule of three 
Include dramatic elements, figurative language, poetic devices, or sound devices
Include literary/story elements: character development, conflict, setting, plot structure, etc. 
Use evidence (1 direct quote) from the passage to help make your argument in the form of a paragraph. 
Be sure to set up and embed the quotes properly. 
You may use information from any scene from the text to support your discussion.
You will use a line number rather than a page number when you cite it.
Explain how the quote supports your claim, and be sure to wrap it up with a clincher statement. 
Use feedback from any previous writing and the student growth writing rubric  as a guide.