Journal+7


 * Today: Begin thinking about how you will organize all of your information. What do you want the end product to look like? When you are ready, write the first page of your paper. I will check your first page and give you the go-ahead to move on. Your first page must be completed by Tuesday, April 19th. It should include proper MLA heading, title, and internal citations (see link below for guidelines).**


 * Your draft will be posted on a separate page on your wiki: "Journal 7."**


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__SAMPLE ESSAY__

John Doe Mr. Smith Honors English I April 14, 2011 Fighting For His Life: The Nick Pantalone Story Like any other morning, Nick Pantalone was walking to school in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. This particular day, however, was a bit different: it was “hat day” at Cedar Cliff High School, and Nick proudly donned a giant sombrero. It never dawned on him that his world was about to change as he reached the parking. A few seconds later, however, he found himself pinned between a chain-link fence and a bus that made a wrong turn. Fortunately, Nick walked away from the accident that morning. After an evaluation by the school nurse, who found only a few scrapes and bruises, Nick visited his family doctor to get a comprehensive examination. All was clear. A week later, though, after a few aches and pains and an abnormally large stomach, Nick’s parents decided to visit the family doctor a second time. Tests were done. The news was bad. Nick had cancer. Desmoplastic round cell tumor (DRCT) is rare. Even scarier, it is an aggressive cancer that typically begins in the abdomen but spreads to various parts of the body, quickly. “We’ve seen DRCT spread all over: lungs, lymph nodes, liver, spleen, chest wall, skull, spinal cord, small intestine, bladder, and the brain,” says Dr. Michael Willard who has studied DRCT in young males for the past eight years (Jefferson). Luckily, for Nick, the cancer has remained in and around his abdomen, spreading only into the chest cavity. Nick comes from a big family, a big, Italian family. He grew up with four brothers and sisters. Nicknamed “tie-breaker”, Nick is the youngest, tilting the sibling scale to three boys, two girls. Now off in college or careers, his older brothers and sisters keep in touch on a daily basis. Robbie, 29 years old, looks out for his brother from Massachusetts, where he works for an engineering firm. “Even though I’m hundreds of miles away,” says Robbie, “I got Nick’s back, and he knows it” (Pantalone).