Question

Choose 1 of these pretend situations:

Your parents have commanded you to marry a person you don’t know, and you are in love with someone else.
OR
Your parents have commanded you to go to a college that you don’t like, and you have been accepted to your dream school.


Write a paragraph of 5-7 sentences explaining how you feel using 3 of the new reading vocabulary terms. Highlight the terms in yellow.

Here is a list of the terms: careful, proud, gallant, haste, decree, patience, disobedient, gentleman, bridegroom, to court, drizzle, raging, blessed.

Answer 1

Chosen scenario:

Your parents have commanded you to marry a person you don’t know, and you are in love with someone else.

Description:

(1) When I found out that my parents are going to make me marry someone I don't know, I was scared. (2) My parents said that the person I am supposed to marry is very nice, and I should feel blessed to be marrying them, because they will make my life easy. (3) But I am in love with someone else. (4) I do not want to be disobedient, but I cannot help that I want to run away and marry the person who I love instead of the person they chose. (5) Since it is hard to hide that I am upset, I have to be really careful about how I act when they talk about their plans for me to marry the person they chose.