Unit 1
Extremely Difficult To Achieve
What is Arduous?
The State of being able to make personal Choices and act on them.
What is Autonomy?
Expressed Without Unnecessary Words; Brief and Compact
What is Succinct?
Frankness or Honesty
What is Candor?
Truthfulness or Accuracy
The Message in a text that requires the audience to look beyond the words on the page.
What is Implicit Meaning?
The Way a text is written
What is Style?
Using Strategies to determine if a source is appropriate for a text.
What is Source Evaluation?
The Rhetorical Feature of placing extreme opposites in close proximity.
What is Antithesis?
A Text That Is Considered To Have Been Historically Significant in Its Attempt To Persuade Policy Makers.
What is a work of Public Advocacy?
The action of choosing pieces of text to best represent the article.
What is Summarizing Evidence?
The act of ensuring a piece of evidence is related to your text as well as ensuring it is recent.
What is Source Relevancy?
The Use of Bullet Points, Captions, Headings, and Font Style
What Are Formatting Features?
Asking "Why" about a particular claim
What is an Argumentative Essay Thesis?
The way an author arranges words in a sentence.
What is Syntax?
Read the Passage: “An Opportunity to Begin a National Conversation” from the article entitled “Going Dark.”
What is the Central Idea?
To Explain why the speaker is talking to the audience and to explain what he needs from them.
The word diet is introduced in the What Teens Need section of “Teens, Your Brain Needs Real Food” and is refined over the first three paragraphs.
How does the author refine this word?
through the addition of affixes that change its meaning and function to describe eating more healthily
In “How Light Pollution Works,” the author presents the argument that reducing the use of “inefficient and unnecessary lighting” can lower emissions of carbon into the atmosphere.
What is one way the author effectively uses an appeal to logos to strengthen her argument?
by describing tasks readers can perform inside their homes to eliminate bad lighting practices and to use lights more effectively
Read the excerpt from “Remarks by the President on Osama bin Laden.”
We give thanks to the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify the professionalism, patriotism, and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country. And they are part of a generation that has borne the heaviest share of the burden since that September day.
Which answer most accurately identifies Obama’s purpose for using the metaphor “has borne the heaviest share of the burden”?
to reference the complicated pressures and stresses felt by the military and young Americans
In Riley v. California, which fact helped the court determine that this case’s search and seizure was unreasonable?
Cell phones do not pose an immediate physical threat to police officers; therefore, this search and seizure action was a violation of Fourth Amendment rights.
Write a Summary of this passage:
The canonical example is Flappy Bird. A simple game featuring a squat little bird that tries (and usually fails) to fly between big green pipes without touching them, Flappy Bird was coded over a long weekend in 2013 by a 28-year-old in Hanoi named Dong Nguyen. Since then it’s been downloaded over 50 million times and was making $50,000 a day before Nguyen took it down because he couldn’t cope with all the pressure and attention: the game was too successful.
And some games make more than that. A lot more. The puzzle game Candy Crush Saga, which is essentially just a candy-themed knockoff of the old warhorse Bejeweled, takes in $922,968 every day, on average, according to the app-data site Think Gaming. The massively multiplayer strategy game Clash of Clans pulls in over $1.5 million a day; Supercell, the Finnish company that makes it, was recently valued at over $5 billion. And this is just sales on Apple’s App Store. We’re not even counting Google Play, the Amazon App Store, and the Windows Phone Store. These little games have become very big business, and they’re only getting bigger. Last year global revenue from mobile games was about $25 billion, up a sharp 42% over 2013.
Lev Grossman, in the Time article “Video Games in the Age of Cell Phones,” claims that mobile video games can provide a huge return on investment, citing games like Flappy Bird, which took mere days to develop but has been downloaded “over 50 million times.” Similarly successful game apps can earn more than $1 million a day, and global revenue is increasing year to year.
Name At Least one Example of a Valid Source
Revise the following sentence for Syntax:
Besides low rainfall and global warming being major contributors to drought, human contributions to drought are also significant.
Human contributions to drought are significant.
What is the claim for this piece of evidence?
Dr. Larry Wilder, a faculty member of Fresno Pacific University School of Education and retired assistant superintendent, believes that school uniforms limit the places in clothing where students can hide guns or other weapons. He cites statistics from the National School Board Association in his support of school uniforms. He says that “approximately 135,000 guns are brought to America’s 85,000 public schools each day.”
Wearing school uniforms can make schools safer places for students.
Write a topic sentence for the first Because Statment:
Texting while driving needs to be banned across the United States because the variations in the current law from state to state confuse drivers and because drivers cannot multitask. Texting while driving endangers everyone on the road.
While texters claim that they are safely multitasking, the latest brain research shows that multitasking is a myth.