The girls played basketball the boys played tennis.
What is a run on sentence?
The girls played basketball; the boys played tennis.
100
Explains who is speaking, what they will be speaking about, introduces the information, and gives the reader a "hint" of what is to come.
What is context?
100
The author of A Raisin in the Sun
What is Lorraine Hansberry
100
In " A Kind of Murder" Why did Mr. Warren come to Morgan Military Academy?
What is to replace Mr. Estweiler because he had died from a heart attack.
100
specifically connects your evidence/the quote to your thesis. You can do this byrepeating key phrases and explaining what they mean, re-phrasing the most important parts of the quote, or referring to the other quotes that also connects to your thesis.
What is elaboration?
200
After I had gotten up. I ate breakfast.
What is a sentence fragment?
After I had gotten up, I ate breakfast.
200
These three things are needed an introductory paragraph.
What is lure, context, evidence, and claim.
200
Themes found in A Raisin in the Sun.
What is racial tension, women's rights, the American dream, and importance of family?
200
In a "Kind of Murder" what did Sammy Callahan and Hugh Penecost discover about Mr. Warren the first night at dinner? How did they figure this out?
What is A want -to -be liked smile. They were asking him questions.
200
An ______________, when removed from its sentence, makes complete sense. Written with a captital at the beginning and a period at the end, it becomes a simple sentence.
What is an independent clause?
300
A ______________ cannot stand along when removed from its sentence. It is like a sentence fragment.
What is a dependent Clause?
300
Claim: Reyundo exhibits nothing but cowardice when he joins the Latin Kings. He is not courageous.
The Context is....
What is answers will vary, an example is Lil Loco was thinking about what was going to happen if the police were to show up to his place.
300
Life in America was like this during the 1950's.
What is segregation was still widely prevalent, civil rights and feminist movements would follow in the 1960's, and the country was eager.
300
What is the plot in the short story My Bloody Life?
What is a boy who gets initiated into a gang and how he deals with it.
300
I walked in the park while I eat ice cream.
What is consistent verb tense?
I walked in the park while I ate ice cream.
400
When describing her neighborhs, Talyor makes an (allusion/illusion) to the Hitchcock movie Psycho.
What is a homonym?
allusion.
400
Quote: "Anything seemed better than what I feared my future would be like as a King. How could I be so stupid? There ways no way I was going to join the Kings" (Sanchez 137).
Ellaboration would be...
What is answers will vary, this is an example. He is not courageous because he does not have the guts to say no. He is falling to peer pressure.
400
In what ways are Ana and Esperanza both like the four skinny trees described on page 74-75?
What is Like the trees, the girls have not found their place in the world.
400
Who is the author of A Kind of Murder?
What is Hugh Pentecos?t
400
Create an introductory paragraph for the argument, students should or shouldn't be able to go off campus to eat lunch.
What is answers will vary, make sure you have the following format: Lure, context, evidence, and claim.
500
The computer is an invaluable tool, it links together millions of people.
What is a comma splice?
The computer is an invaluable tool because it links together millions of people.
500
This is what you need at the end of a body paragraph.
What is a clincher?
500
In the vignetter "No Speak English," Mamacita is upset when her son speaks English, and is especially upset when he recites a Pepsi commercial. How is her sadness similar to the sadness that Ana's mother feels when her daughter chooses a different life direction for herself?
What is Mamacita doesn't know how English, but she is happy and proud that her son knows how to speak English.
500
What is the short story Shaving about?
What is a man who stays home to help his sick father.
500
Phrases you should never use when trying to link evidence to your claim.
What is this quote means, this quote proves, because of this quote, we can tell from this quote?