Category: Writing

Born a Crime Cho By Trevor Noah
7. What race did the apartheid assign to Japanese and Chinese people in South Africa?
8. How did Patricia outsmart Trevor over the toffee apple?
3. Use 3 words to describe Trevor in this chapter.
4. What clever idea did Patricia have to make Trevor argue his points whenever they disagreed?
5. What brilliant points did Trevor make for why he should be allowed to participate in communion?
Tell 2 mischievous acts Trevor did in this chapter.

which revision corrects the sentence
can be worth more or less (including zero) depending on your The following sentence contains a comma splice: I work until nine o’clock on weeknights, my shift ends at midnight on Saturday. Which revision corrects the sentence? I work until nine o’clock on weeknights; but my shift ends at midnight on Saturday. I work until nine o’clock, on weeknights. My shift ends at midnight, on Saturday. I work until nine o’clock on weeknights. My shift ends at midnight on Saturday.

How does the writer use conflict in the excerpt “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid to develop the central idea of the text?
In writing,  identify the central idea, the conflict, and explain how the writer uses the conflict to develop the central idea. at least three examples of conflict from the text to support your analysis
“Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don’t walk bare-head in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take them off; when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn’t have gum in it, because that way it won’t hold up well after a wash; soak salt fish overnight before you cook it; is it true that you sing benna (calypso/ festive West Indian music) in Sunday school?; always eat your food in such a way that it won’t turn someone else’s stomach; on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming; don’t sing benna in Sunday school; you mustn’t speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions; don’t eat fruits on the street—flies will follow you; but I don’t sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school; this is how to sew on a button; this is how to make a buttonhole for the button you have just sewed on; this is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down and so to prevent yourself from looking like the slut I know you are so bent on becoming; this is how you iron your father’s khaki shirt so that it doesn’t have a crease; this is how you iron your father’s khaki pants so that they don’t have a crease; this is how you grow okra—far from the house, because okra tree harbors red ants; when you are growing dasheen, make sure it gets plenty of water or else it makes your throat itch when you are eating it; this is how you sweep a corner; this is how you sweep a whole house; this is how you sweep a yard; this is how you smile to someone you don’t like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don’t like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely; this is how you set a table for tea; this is how you set a table for dinner; this is how you set a table for dinner with an important guest; this is how you set a table for lunch; this is how you set a table for breakfast; this is how to behave in the presence of men who don’t know you very well, and this way they won’t recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming; be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit; don’t squat down to play marbles—you are not a boy, you know; don’t pick people’s flowers—you might catch something; don’t throw stones at blackbirds, because it might not be a blackbird at all; this is how to make a bread pudding; this is how to make doukona; this is how to make pepper pot; this is how to make a good medicine for a cold; this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child; this is how to catch a fish; this is how to throw back a fish you don’t like, and that way something bad won’t fall on you; this is how to bully a man; this is how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man, and if this doesn’t work there are other ways, and if they don’t work don’t feel too bad about giving up; this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quick so that it doesn’t fall on you; this is how to make ends meet; always squeeze bread to make sure it’s fresh; but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?

TRUE+WAY ASL Workbook Unit 5.6

Part 1. Write the number next to the activity in the order it was signed.
a. grade homework
b. exercise
c. go to work
d. brush teeth
e. chat with mother on videophone
f. check emails
g. read the news online
h. shower
i. get up
j. go to bed

Part 2. Watch and identify the incorrect sign in the statements then write the correct Sign to replace it with. Replace with ASL.

View & Respond to ‘Fitting In’ by Richard Montanez
In this discussion, give your personal reaction to Richard Montanez’s speech ‘Fitting In.’
Give infer and provide a suggested thesis statement for the speech.
Additionally, please indicate whether the speech contains ethos, pathos, and/or logos and any of the fallacies we have learned about. Be specific about why you believe one or more of those strategies were used and what words were stated by Richard Montanez that reflect it. Is the overall argument that is made a sound one?

037: You Were Never Created to Fit In