Unit 1
What does the word nurture mean?
What is the meaning of encourage?
What does the word emulate mean?
What does the word biodegradable mean?
What is the definition of imperishable?
What does diction mean?
what is using emotional or striking language to emphasize an argument?
What does anarchy mean?
What state of disorder is due to absence without nonrecognition of authority.
What is the central idea in a writing?
What is the whole writing text about?
What is the excerpt in a writing?
What is a short extract from a main text?
What does revise mean in a paragraph?
Why do you look back at the writing after you finish writing the paragraph?
What is the message in a writing?
What message does a writing piece tell the reader?
What does omit mean in a writing?
what does it mean to leave out or exclude?
What is vocabulary in a writing?
How does the authors writing and grammar affect the their writing?
What is tone in a writing summary?
How does the authors attitude of the writing affect the reader?
What is the cause and effect structure?
What causes something to have an effect in a writing?
What does evaluate mean?
What does it mean to describe the whole reading in your own words?
What does analysis mean?
What is a detailed examination of the elements or structure of something in a writing?
Read the statement about mobile games from “Video Games in the Age of Cell Phones.”
These little games have become very big business, and they’re only getting bigger.
Which piece of evidence represents the best choice to use in support of this statement?
Can dollar amounts be used at game earnings?
Read the excerpt from the Be Cool section of “Everyday Survival.”
In the past few decades, technologies like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have allowed researchers such as Bruce McEwen at Rockefeller University to demonstrate that stress changes the shape and chemistry of the brain, resulting in trouble remembering, difficulty completing tasks, and altered behavior. In effect, losing your cool makes you stupid.
Which answer most accurately explains the meaning of the word stupid as it is used in the excerpt?
What is slow-witted?
Read the excerpt from “Natural Beauty at Risk.”
By combining these climate projections with information about topography and soil moisture and composition, Jantz and Rogers are exploring how the suitability of habitats may change for 40 eastern tree species. Their modeled projections are based in part on extensive field observations collected by the U.S. Forest Service. Rogers and Jantz are combining all of this information into a comprehensive vulnerability assessment, aimed at land managers, that is designed to facilitate planning and decision making.
Which technical phrase in the excerpt best describes the scientific findings that Rogers and Jantz would put into a report?
is comprehensive vulnerability assessment good for writing?
Read the excerpt from President Woodrow Wilson’s speech “The Meaning of Liberty.”
What other great people has devoted itself to this exalted ideal? To what other nation in the world can all eyes look for an instant sympathy that thrills the whole body politic when men anywhere are fighting for their rights? I do not know that there will ever be a declaration of independence and of grievances for mankind, but I believe that if any such document is ever drawn it will be drawn in the spirit of the American Declaration of Independence, and that America has lifted high the light which will shine unto all generations and guide the feet of mankind to the goal of justice and liberty and peace.
How does Wilson employ metaphor to convey his message to the audience?
He says the nation has “lifted high the light,” in which how does he send the message that America will help others see the way to democracy?
Read the excerpt from Shirley Chisholm’s speech “Equal Rights for Women.”
As a black person, I am no stranger to race prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.
Prejudice against blacks is becoming unacceptable although it will take years to eliminate it. But it is doomed because, slowly, white America is beginning to admit that it exists. Prejudice against women is still acceptable. There is very little understanding yet of the immorality involved in double pay scales and the classification of most of the better jobs as “for men only.”
The Fourteenth Amendment states
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
How does Chisholm incorporate the constitutional principle based on the Fourteenth Amendment in the excerpt?
by comparing is the unequal treatment shared by African Americans and women based on the Fourteenth Amendment in the excerpt?
Which sentence from “Virtual Reality Gets Real” provide the best textual evidence to support the central idea of the “Engaging All Your Senses” section?
Is Laidlaw is less optimistic because he thinks that creating lifelike haptics will take 100 years but he agrees that a virtual world may one day be a nearly perfect simulacrum of the real one?
Read the excerpt from “Everyday Survival.”
And yet almost any organized action can help you recover the ability to think clearly and aid in your survival. For example, Pvt. Giles McCoy was aboard the U.S.S. Indianapolis when it was torpedoed and sank at the end of World War II, tossing some 900 men into the black of night and the shark-infested Pacific. McCoy, a young Marine, was sucked under the boat and nearly drowned. He surfaced into a two-inch-thick slick of fuel oil, which soaked his life vest and kept him from swimming—although he could see a life raft, he couldn’t reach it. So he tore off his vest and swam underwater, surfacing now and then, gasping, swallowing oil, and vomiting. After getting hoisted onto the raft, he saw a group of miserable young sailors covered in oil and retching. One was “so badly burned that the skin was stripped from his arms,” Doug Stanton writes in his gripping account of the event, In Harm’s Way. McCoy’s response to this horrific situation was telling. “He resolved to take action: He would clean his pistol.” Irrelevant as that task may sound, it was exactly the right thing to do: organized, directed action. He made each one of the sailors hold a piece of the pistol as he disassembled it. This began the process of letting him think clearly. Forcing your brain to think sequentially—in times of crisis and in day-to-day life—can quiet dangerous emotions.
What kind of evidence is used in the excerpt, and how does this evidence support the excerpt’s point?
Can an example demonstrate a detailed account of how one individual survived a horrific situation by committing to organized action?
Read the text that Marcia sent to a friend.
I had to come up with a service project as part of my grade in social studies, so I did a food drive in the spring. Everyone does them at the holidays, right?
Which option shows how Marcia could best revise this information to use in an application for a summer leadership program?
When I devised my service project for social studies, how can I choose to conduct a food drive in late March since food banks often run low on supplies after the winter holidays?
Read the excerpt from President Woodrow Wilson’s speech “The Meaning of Liberty.”
What other great people has devoted itself to this exalted ideal? To what other nation in the world can all eyes look for an instant sympathy that thrills the whole body politic when men anywhere are fighting for their rights? I do not know that there will ever be a declaration of independence and of grievances for mankind, but I believe that if any such document is ever drawn it will be drawn in the spirit of the American Declaration of Independence, and that America has lifted high the light which will shine unto all generations and guide the feet of mankind to the goal of justice and liberty and peace.
Which statement most accurately explains the rhetorical impact of Wilson’s use of diction in the excerpt?
How does Wilson use of words such as “exalted,” “believe,” and “spirit” links the freedoms Americans experience to a lofty sense of mankind’s purpose?
Read this statement.
In legal reasoning, the facts of a case suggest that there is an issue. This issue may already be governed by a rule of law. When the facts are compared to the rule, an analysis of the case can be developed. From this analysis, a _[blank]_ can be made as to whether or not the _[blank]_ applies to the _[blank]_.
Which three words, in order, accurately complete the statement?
What do conclusion, rule, and facts define?