Category: Writing

Match the phrase/clause underlined in each section to the term that best describes it.
Many argue that the blues and jazz are the first truly American musical forms. With its origins in slave narratives, the blues took root during the 1920s and 1930s as African-American composers, musicians, and singers performed in the cabarets and clubs of Harlem. Jazz, however, has its origins in New Orleans. Today, we can still appreciate the music of Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and B. B. King.
Rock and roll is also a distinctively American form of music. Our country’s first “rock star” was without a doubt Elvis Presley, who emerged on the nation’s airwaves in the mid-1950s with such hits as Heartbreak Hotel, Don’t Be Cruel, and All Shook Up. A decade later, Americans were expressing themselves musically through rhythm and blues, pop, folk rock, and protest music. Today, thanks to recording technology, we have easy access to our country’s rich musical history.
My options for answers are:
direct object
predicate
adverbial clause
active voice
absolute phrase
subject complement
appositive
simple subject
prepositional phrase

GRAPH ANALYSIS DIRECTION: Study the graph below and answer the processing questions: Employment Situation in April 2020 Source: psa.gov.ph 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% Employment Situation in April 40% 2020 30% 20% 10% 0% Employed Unemployed Underemployed PROCESSING QUESTIONS: = 1. Which labor status showed the highest data? Lowest data? 2. What does it imply? 3. How should government address the present scenario in terms of our labor force? teaching purposes only 4. Does Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-Asa Program will deliberately address TO sale to the employment status of every Filipinos? How and why?
DOCUMENTARY FILM ANALYSIS DIRECTION: You choose from the episodes shown on any documentaries you viewed which portrayed forms of community engagement in attaining community development through solidarity among the members in the particular place. The following are the steps for your documentary film analysis: 8 1. Write the title and a short detail of the episode. 2. Answer the following guide questions: a. What is the impact of community engagement in attaining community development? b. Who is the main proponent of the community development? c. Why is solidarity necessary in attaining the target goals?

2. Which Sentence would he MOST appropriate to include in an accurate and objective summary of the article? (A) The Harlem Renaissance was heavily influenced by successful writers in many different genres. (B) The Harlem Renaissance was developed because of a lack of industrial jobs in the North. (C) African-Americans were unfairly forced to share their crops with landowners after they paid rent. (D) African-Americans were inspired by the editor of The Crisis until he abandoned the Renaissance.

6. Select three sentences from the body of the essay which are consistent in tone with the opening sentence.
Labour Day Is a Dreaded Bell in the Schoolyard of the Mind Harry Bruce What signals the end of summer for you? . How is Labour Day different from other holidays for you? Labour Day was like a sniff of the woods or a glimpse of the sea before they led you down to the dungeon. All other statutory holidays were an escape from school. Labour Day was its entrance, the stairway to an aeon of misery, a last meal, a last drag on a cigarette. At a cabin on a widening of the dark Magnetawan River, I’d sometimes smell Labour Day’s deadly gloom as early as mid-August. While birch crackled in the kitchen stove and pancakes sizzled at breakfast, while I played rummy by coal-oil lantern or knocked about in a leaky punt under singing trees, while I routed the evil sheriff in my own Sherwood Forest, and even as I lifted a forkful of home-made raspberry pie to my mouth, a cold bell might ring in the far schoolyard of my mind. It was a signal. Now, Labour Day was yawning, getting to its feet, slouching toward me. It would take me back. All this would end. I hated school. If Tom Hansen, 24, of Boulder, Colorado, wins his $350,000-suit against his mother and father for ruining his life with “psychological malparenting,” I’m going to hit the Toronto education authorities for the psychological malteachering they put me through. School was hot, degrading, boring and occasionally terrifying, a house of despair in which big tyrants tormented small victims. The teachers, like prison guards, knew society wanted their institutions to be unpleas- ant for us inmates; and the worst punishment they could inflict, next to The Strap, was a “detention.” It was an order to do extra time in the hole (school). The vocabulary of discipline and insult, the smell of chalk and ink and old chewing gum, the feel of the hardwood bench under your
haunches, the sickening realisation that things would be this way till the end of an inconceivably distant june. . .all these awaited us on the morning after going to bed on Labour Day. After Christmas, kids asked one another, “Wud ya get?” After Labour Day, they asked, ” W’s! ya get?” I’d say, “Mr. Such-and-sueh” or “Miss So—and-so.” in a cruel ?ash, I’d learned the name and scowl of the adult who would dominate my daylight hours for ten months to come; and the other kid always replied, “You poor sucker.” Good morning, Miss Authoritarian. Good—bye, bonfires on the bC?Ch. Hello there, line-ups, marching in columns of two, standing stiffly at attention, sitting with your hands folded on your desk, keeping your trap shut. Good-bye picnics on the ?at, sun-baked stone of deserted islands, good-bye blackberry bushes in bee-loud glades. Hello, seribbler and ruler. Good-bye, cry of the loon, depredations of the race-on, sunburn at noon, and hide—and-seek by the light of the moon. Gin-Gd morning, .rt’r. There’s another side to the Labour Day story, of course. Sadly, slowly, as though he were savoring the last moments of our crashing shore in Nova Scotia, an old friend from Toronto folded his tent, loaded his van. The Labour Day weekend had started, and he had 1,3{l? miles to drive. “Why not stick around a few days?” I said. “Can’t.” he granted. “Got to be in class Tuesday morning.” My friend is a high- school teacher. “Jeea, I hate Labour Day, ” he said, and rumbled out of my life for a few more seasons. Labour Day is the prelude to work, and the death of play. Down at the Canadian National Exhibition, the unions are on parade. Clot around the country, traf?c fatalities mount. Thousands of family cars mourn- fully crawl away from wilderness retreats to city duties. Thousands of guitars, hibaehis, sleeping bags, bathing suits. car-top boats, golf clubs and ?shing poles are city-bound. Thousands of young lovers wonder if, ever again in another summer, they’ll see the golden partners with whom they’ve recently lost their virginity. Will he, or she, really writt? Gan at fair-weather romance survive the killer winter? Clamps close, and board up the season. Hotels cut their rates, and banish staff. Is that tree dead, or is it just that its leaves have already begun to turn?I The chestnuts ripen. The days are shorter, and the nights cooler. Labour Day is a bummer. Earlier than I needed to know, it taught me that no summer ever repeats itself. friendships must die, good times must always end, and the years melt people and beloved places. 0f all holidays, Labour Day is the one that makes you grow up- And feel old- Nowadays, I dislike it more than ever.
THOUGHT * 1. With which of the images of Labour Day in the essay do you most strongly identify? Explain. X 2. Compare your feelings about school with Harry Bruce’s. 3. Did the author’s anecdote about his friend the teacher surprise you? Explain. 4. What has Labour Day taught the author? STYLE AND STRUCTURE * 5. Is the opening sentence appropriate for setting the tone of the essay? Explain. 6. Select three sentences from the body of the essay which are consistent in tone with the opening sentence. * 7. Show how Bruce makes effective use of contrast in the fourth paragraph. X 8. In what ways does the tone of the conclusion contrast with that of the introduction? 9. Select three of the author’s observations and show how they lead directly to his final comments.

When I do count the clock that tells the time William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 12” Why is this verse an example of iambic pentameter?
A. It has five metrical feet that each contain an unstressed syllable immediately followed by a stressed one.
B. It has four metrical feet that each contain a stressed syllable immediately followed by an unstressed one.
C. It has 10 stressed syllables of equal importance.
D. It has 10 unstressed words that sound as if they would be spoken by nobility.

Verb Tense Practice For the following sentences, you will need to correct errors in the verb forms and tenses in the active and passive voice (Hacker & Sommers 235) 1.) In the past, tobacco companies deny any connection between smoking and health problems. 2.) The volunteer’s compassion has touch many lives. 3.) I am wanting to register for a summer tutoring session 4.) By the end of the year, the state will have test 139 birds for avian flu. 5.) The golfers were prepare for all weather conditions. Hforedict Martin’s

18. When making an argument, it is important to consider your audience because the word argument assumes controversy (true, false).
19. Acknowledging differing viewpoints tends to weaken the integrity of your position (true, false).
20. A comma punctuates the end of a complete sentence (true or false).
Question 18: When making an argument, it’s important to consider your audience because the word fare. A. True B. False
Question 19: Acknowledging differing viewpoints tends to weaken the integrity of your position. A. True B. False
Question 20: A comma punctuates the end of a complete sentence. A. True B. False

4 different kinds of hooks about Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking that most people do not know – quote your source (Chapters 3,4&5). Author: Malcolm Gladwell
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1- An interesting statistic/fact about Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking that most people do not know – quote your source (Chapters 3,4&5). Author: Malcolm Gladwell
2- A famous quote that may apply to Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking-  the quote in quotation marks (author of the quote) (chapters 3,4&5). Author: Malcolm Gladwell
3- An important question that we might ask about Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking [do not ask about intuitive thinking or thin-slicing as the reader may not know what this is] (chapters 3,4&5). Author: Malcolm Gladwell
4- A bit of wisdom / old saying you know that is suggested by Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking It can come from the USA or your country. ( chapters 3,4&5). Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Question
You are in a public speaking class and watch one of your peer’s video speeches. You realize the student is giving a speech you’ve seen before on YouTube; a student from a different university recorded themselves and uploaded it. Your classmate is repeating the speech, but cites where all the information in the speech came from. Include the following in your post:
?      Is your classmate being unethical?
?      Which ethical tenets from the reading apply to this situation?
?      What are you going to do about this situation? Will you tell anyone? Why or why not?

Quick Breads
After reading Chapter 10 of the textbook, students will define the following baking terms:
Terms for Review:
Pour batter
Drop batter
Tunneling
Muffin method
Creaming method
Biscuit method
?      If you made a batch of muffins that came out of the oven with strange, knobby shapes, what would you expect to be the reason?
?      What is the most important difference between the biscuit method and the muffin method?