Category: Writing

In the non-fiction essay “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, what techniques has the author used to effectively deliver her ideas regarding challenges in life?
Determine the idea that the author has developed about challenges in life and discuss a minimum of 3 techniques used by the author to reinforce that theme or message. Recall that techniques used include symbolism, tone, mood, diction/syntax, imagery, figures of speech, irony, satire, anecdotes and examples.
Using all this information, how does one come up with a strong thesis statement for a critical/analytical response essay?

What are Don Manuel’s reasons from SAINT MANUEL BUENO, MARTYR, both selfless and selfish, for keeping his lack of belief in an afterlife from his followers? Are there any ways in which he is similar to Plato’s philosopher-kings?

Smoking Is Not Cool, but Are Smokers?
In his book
The Tipping Point
, Malcolm Gladwell proposes his controversial “tipping point” theory as to how and why trends, ideas, and social behaviors quickly spread.
Investigating the issue of teenage smoking.
Many researchers assume that the origins of teenage smoking can be found in the evil advertising campaigns of cigarette companies these campaigns make smoking look cool, attractive, and desirable.
However, Gladwell argues, the millions of dollars that the United States have spent on antismoking advertisements, as well as the taxes and laws that has been imposed to prevent teenage smoking, had not worked.
In fact, according to Gladwell, the number of teenagers who smoke in the United States has risen 73% since 1988, why have all the attempts to make smoking seem “uncool” failed?
Research on the personalities of smokers has reveal some fascinating answers.
According to this research, people who smoke are much more likelier to be outgoing, enjoy parties, has quick tempers, and have rebellious streaks heavy smokers may also display more sexual behavior, drink more coffee, and buy more beer.
Of course, there are many smokers who do not fit this profile, but research suggests that there is actually a type of person who is more likely to be a heaviest smoker.
The typical personality of a smoker is a bit more rebellious and wild than that of a nonsmoker.
According to Gladwell, this is exactly the kind of personality that is attractive to rebelliously teenagers. ¹¹
In almost all the surveys that he conduct, people remember the person who introduced them to smoking as differently, edgy, or sexy; therefore, Gladwell says, “Smoking was never cool. Smokers are cool.”
Gladwell’s research is interesting and potentially controversial; he suggests that a small number of people whom teenagers perceive to be “cool” start and continue the epidemic of teenage smoking.
Source
: Gladwell, Malcolm.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.
Little Brown Books, 2000.
Carefully review sentences 8 through 12. Then, for each sentence, select all boxes that apply.
[Sentence]     [ Adjective or adverb Error]  [Verb Tense Error]    [ No Error]
Sentence 8?
Sentence 9?
Sentence 10?
Sentence 11?
Sentence 12?
Which is the best correction of [this sentence]?
However, Gladwell argues, the millions of dollars that the United States have spent on antismoking advertisements, as well as the taxes and laws that has been imposed to prevent teenage smoking, had not worked.
However, Gladwell argues, the millions of dollars that the United States had spent on antismoking advertisements, as well as the taxes and laws that has been imposed to prevent teenage smoking, has not worked.
However, Gladwell argues, the millions of dollars that the United States has spent on antismoking advertisements, as well as the taxes and laws that have been imposed to prevent teenage smoking, have not worked.

The Circle Game
By Joni Mitchell
Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star
Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like, when you’re older, must appease him
And promises of someday make his dreams
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We’re captive on the carousel of time
We can’t return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels thru the town
And they tell him, take your time, it won’t be long now
Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We’re captive on the carousel of time
We can’t return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
There’ll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We’re captive on the carousel of time
We can’t return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
Essential Question: How does this question relate to the poem and the three poetic techniques used in the poem?
To what degree can an individual’s choices and actions influence the direction of his or her life?
Select three poetic techniques (e.g., tone, mood, figurative language sound devices, poetic structure, imagery, diction) and examine how the poet used them to enhance the theme.
?      Consider the speaker’s tone.
?      What seems to be the speaker’s attitude toward the subject?
?      What specific details from the poem support your conclusions?
?      Is tone consistent or does the poet’s attitude shift throughout the poem?
?      Why might the poet have used this tone?
?      Determine the mood when determining the theme.
?      What predominant emotion is the reader intended to feel?
?      What words or phrases support this mood?
?      Is the mood consistent or does it shift throughout the poem?
?      Figurative language: similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, understatement, metonymy, synecdoche, apostrophe
?      Sound devices: rhyme, alliteration, repetition, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, punctuation
?      Poetic structure: stanzas, lines, use of white space
?      Imagery: Are all 5 senses aroused? Did the poet deliberately activate one sense in particular?
?      Diction: word choices

Which of the following is an example of an informal definition?
Genetics – that is, the genes you’ve inherited – may play a role in how your ears react to loud sounds.
Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines genetics (noun) as “the scientific study of how genes control the characteristics of plants and animals.”
The use of genetics is often applied in studies of plant species and improvement. Horticulturalists aim to breed disease-resistant plants by changing their genetic traits. Genetically modified plants are controversial as sources of food crops.
Geneticist J.B.S. Haldane makes an interesting point: “I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.”

The rule for adding the morpheme for his’ to the noun is: O a. prefix it to the noun O b. infix it after the first consonant O c. infix
it before the first consonant tion O d. infix it before the first vowel

1. What is an integrated curriculum? (3 points)
2. Differentiate multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. Give examples in each ( 30 points).
3. How can you apply integration along with these three approachers? (5 points)
4. Explain the 5 methods of curriculum integration: project-based learning, service learning, learning centers, theme-based,, and fusion and the different types of integrated curriculum: connected, sequenced, shared, webbed ( 27 points)
5. Which curriculum integrationapproach would best suit to the different types of learners in diverse classroom contexts. ( 5 points)
6. In what lessons or course disciplines is integrated curriculum most appropriate? (5points)

Attitude
Identify and explain the attitude(s) (i.e. TONE) of the speaker and/or the writer toward the characters, events etc., in the poem. As much as possible, provide direct evidence from the text (i.e. words, phrases) to support your explanation of the attitudes you identify.
Accents
by Denice Frohman
My mom holds her accent like a shotgun,
With two good hands.
Her tongue, all brass knuckle
Slipping in between her lips
Her hips, all laughter and wind clap
She speaks a sanchocho of Spanish and English,
Pushing up and against one another
In rapid fire
There is no telling my mother to be “quiet,”
My mother don’t know “quiet.”
Her voice is one size better fit all
And you best not tell her to hush
She waited too many years for her voice to arrive
To be told it needed house-keeping
So it don’t matter if I’m in the next room
Or in a park
My momma still gonna shout my name like
‘Dene, ven por aqui’
See English sits in her mouth remixed
So “strawberry” becomes “eh-strawbeddy”
And “cookie” becomes “eh-cookie”
And kitchen, key chain, and chicken all sound the same.
My mama doesn’t say “yes”
She says, “ah ha”
And suddenly the sky in her mouth becomes a Hector Lavoe song.
Her tongue can’t lay itself down fat enough
For the English language,
It got too much hip
Too much bone
Too much conga
Too much cuatro
Two step
Got too many piano keys
In-between her teeth
It got too much clave
Too much hand clap, hand clap
It got too much clave
Too much hand clap, hand clap
It got too much hip
Too much bone
Too much conga
Too much cuatro
Two step
Got too many piano keys
In-between her teeth
It got too much clave
Too much hand clap, hand clap
It got too much salsa to sit still
It’s being an anxious child wanting to
Make Play-Doh out of concrete
English be too neat for
Her kind of wonderful
Her words spill in conversation
Between women whose hands are all they got
Sometimes our hands are all we got
And our accents remind us that we are still
Bomba, still plena
Say “wepa” Wepa
And a stranger becomes your hermano,
Say “dale” Dale
And a crowd becomes a family reunion.
My mother’s tongue is a telegram from her mother
Decorated with the coqui’s of el campo
So even though her lips can barely
Stretch themselves around English,
Her accent is a

What i Know Task 1: Directions: Read the following poem, and answer the questions below. Circle the letter of the correct choice. The West Wind It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April’s in the west wind, and daffodils. It’s a fine land, the west land, for hearts as tired as mine; Apple orchards blossom there, and the airs’ like wine. There is cool green grass there where men may lie at rest; And the thrushes are in song there, fluting from their nest… 1. In the first line, what is the literary device of the phrase “warm wind, the west wind” A. onomatopoeia B . alliteration C. rhyme D. rhythm 2. Line six has a comparison. is being compared to A. song to a nest B. air to wine C. air to song D. blossoms to air 3. Is the comparison in line six a simile or metaphor? A. simile B. metaphor B. MULTIPLE CHOICE – Circle the letter of the correct choice. 1. The repeating of beginning consonant sounds is A. onomatopoeia B. rhyme C. alliteration D. refrain 2. The repeating of end sounds of words is A. rhyme B. rhythm C. meter D. feet 3. The repeating of a word or phrase to add rhythm or emphasis is A. rhyme B. rhyme scheme C. alliteration D. repetition 4. The way a line in a poem has stressed and unstressed words A. rhythm B. rhyme C. repetition D. rhyme scheme 5. A group of lines in a poem similar to that of a paragraph; the way the poem is divided A. alliteration B. stanza C. repetition D. simile
C. choose the correct literary device in the table with its definition below. Write the letter of your answer to the blank provided after each statement. A. simile C. onomatopoeia E. alliteration B. metaphor D. personification F. rhyme Whenever the trees are crying aloud. N . The mouse beneath the stone is still as death. 3. Life is a broken winged bird . 4. Chirp, tweet 5. flickering, flitting, fireflies 6. hand with a wand D. Poetry Type Definitions: Match the term with its definition below. Write the letter of your answer to the blank before each number. A. Lyric B. Epic 1. . A very long poem that retells in a continuous narrative the life and journey of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons. 2. . A poem with a songlike feel; it focuses on adventure or romance and tells story
Task 2: Directions: Circle the letter of the correct answer of the following questions. 1 . Lines of poetry are arranged into groups called: A. similes B. stanzas C. settings D. Stories 2. Poetry doesn’t have to rhyme. A. True B. False 3. Words that rhyme and occur at the ends of different lines of poetry create a/an A. internal rhyme B. end rhyme
C. sight rhyme D. rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme in a poem. A. Imagery B. Rhyme scheme C. Symbolism D. Metaphor Rain Shel Silverstein I opened my eyes And looked up at the rain, And it dripped in my head And flowed into my brain, And all that I hear as I lie in my bed Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head. I step very softly, I walk very slow, I can’t do a handstand– I might overflow, So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said– I’m just not the same since there’s rain in my head. 5 How many stanzas are in this poem? A. B. C. D 6 The basic unit of poetry which may consist of a word or a row of words is A. stanza B. line meter D sentence 7 A. True The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem is known as syllables. B. False 8 Which of these words is an onomatopoeia? A. Crash, bang, buzz, bark B. Run, jump, play, fun C. Read, write, think, follow D. Eat, sleep, shower, sneeze 9. An example of a simile would be? A. Her stare is a cold snake bite B. My love for her is as big as the ocean
C. The leaves danced all around me as I walked home D. I could eat a horse right now! 10. If a poem has the characteristics of: Long, tell of heroic deeds, formal, uses similes, personification and metaphors and uses elegant language, it is a? A. Narrative Poem B. Ode C. Sonnet D. Epic THE USE OF CONNECTORS Task 3. The given passage makes use of signal words which are organized by sequence Spot at least sequence signals or connectors and write them on the spaces provided below. Patty the pirate has always dreamed of finding gold. Yesterday, she found a treasure map. After reading the map, she jumped in her ship and set sail for the land marked with a big “X”. Later that day, when she reached land, she begun to dig. Suddenly, her shovel hit something hard. It was a large wooden chest. When she threw open the lid, it was filled with sand. In the end, Patty was disappointed she didn’t find gold but happy she had an adventure. Test 4. Fill in the blanks with the most suitable sequence connectors from the brackets. 1 . The men went to a nearby restaurant for breakfast. towards the Penang Bridge (After, Afterwards, Meanwhile) they drove off 2. The football coach announced, “Today, we will begin practicing for the coming match.” he added, “Let’s warm up first.” (Then, After, Eventually) 3 (Before, After, First) heat the oil in the frying pan. Then put in all the marinated chicken pieces. 4 . Many customers bought the delicious chicken pies. (Eventually, Afterwards, Next) all the pies were sold out. 5. Many people wanted to buy the tickets. (Before, After, Finally ) a while, the queue was quite long
Test 5. Choose the correct connectors to complete the idea of the sentence. their differences of opinion. 1. They managed to work together, (although, despite) I had to do several errands. (because, 2. I left home early, because of) he was an expert. (as if, like) 3. He speaks about the subject 4. We rested the hottest part of the day. (during, while) 5 . she lost her way twice, she arrived safely. (Although, Despite) Test 6. The following passages have words deleted. Choose the word or phrase that best completes each passage. 1. When a student cheats, he reveals two things about himself. In getting help from another student, he proclaims that someone else is more competent than himself; , the cheater shows his perfectionist tendency by suggesting that he is being measured against unrealistic standards. a. in addition b. on the contrary c. as a result d. in short 2. The adolescent attitude towards study is that it is a task to be avoided if at all possible. At best it is an unpleasant chore. It is begun under duress and escaped as soon as the opportunity presents itself. The mark of truly adult learning, is that it is done with no sense of being forced. It is entirely voluntary and carried on with a sense of enjoyment and satisfaction. a. likewise b. however c. in other words d. finally 3. Frequent moves made by the average American family put a strain upon young people, who often grow up feeling they have no real home and that they owe no allegiance to anyone; crime, divorce, and other social problems have increased in recent times. a. consequently b. at the same time c. in other words d. for instance 4. What we were once taught as common courtesies, saying “please” and “thank you,” are becoming less common. a. thus b. before c. first d. such as

Mokilese is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family, spoken in Micronesia. Examine the distribution of the voiced and voiceless vowel pairs: [i, ] and [u, ] (voiceless vowels have a circle under the phonetic vowel symbol). For each pair, determine whether they are allophones of different phonemes or allophones of the same phoneme. Provide evidence for your answer. If they are allophones of one phoneme, state the contexts in which each sound occurs and decide which sound is the basic sound. Can any generalizations be made? (Hint: Refer to natural classes.)