Composition: Essays and Reports

When choosing a topic to write about , it’s important that it is all of the following except:
specific

A. interesting to the reader
B. not too complicated
C. something no one’s ever written about before
D. specific

Answer:

c

Explanation:

Answer:

D. specific

Explanation:

When you know a trap has been set and watch someone walk into it.

situational irony
verbal irony
dramatic irony

The doctor was so pleased with the new specimen that he gave Effie a shilling, and presently the professor stepped round. He stayed to lunch, and he and the doctor quarreled very happily all the afternoon about the name and the family of the thing that had come out of Effie's eye.

But at teatime another thing happened. Effie's brother Harry fished something out of his tea, which he thought at first was an earwig. He was just getting ready to drop it on the floor, and end its life in the usual way, when it shook itself in the spoon—spread two wet wings, and flopped onto the tablecloth. There it sat, stroking itself with its feet and stretching its wings, and Harry said: "Why, it's a tiny newt!"
BRAINLIEST AND 45 POINTS



The professor leaned forward before the doctor could say a word. "I'll give you half a crown for it, Harry, my lad," he said, speaking very fast; and then he picked it up carefully on his handkerchief.

"It is a new specimen," he said, "and finer than yours, Doctor."

It was a tiny lizard, about half an inch long—with scales and wings.

So now the doctor and the professor each had a specimen, and they were both very pleased. But before long these specimens began to seem less valuable. For the next morning, when the knife-boy was cleaning the doctor's boots, he suddenly dropped the brushes and the boot and the blacking, and screamed out that he was burnt.

And from inside the boot came crawling a lizard as big as a kitten, with large, shiny wings.

"Why," said Effie, "I know what it is. It is a dragon like the one St. George killed."

And Effie was right. That afternoon Towser was bitten in the garden by a dragon about the size of a rabbit, which he had tried to chase, and the next morning all the papers were full of the wonderful "winged lizards" that were appearing all over the country. The papers would not call them dragons, because, of course, no one believes in dragons nowadays—and at any rate the papers were not going to be so silly as to believe in fairy stories. At first there were only a few, but in a week or two the country was simply running alive with dragons of all sizes, and in the air you could sometimes see them as thick as a swarm of bees. They all looked alike except as to size. They were green with scales, and they had four legs and a long tail and great wings like bats' wings, only the wings were a pale, half-transparent yellow, like the gear-boxes on bicycles.

According to the bolded text, how did the characters react to the creature?
With interest
With fear
With indifference
With disgust

Read the excerpt below. Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea of the excerpt?

question 1:
In 1944 Elion joined the Burroughs Wellcome Laboratories (now part of GlaxoSmithKline (a company that makes prescription medicines)). There she was first the assistant and then the colleague of Hitchings, with whom she worked for the next four decades. Elion and Hitchings developed an array (variety) of new drugs that were effective against leukemia, autoimmune disorders, urinary tract infections, gout, malaria, and viral herpes.
1 Elion believed that new drugs could be developed to help people.
2 Elion had to work for Hitchings because she was a woman.
3 Elion worked hard for more than 40 years to earn money for retirement.
4 Elion and her colleagues were responsible for developing important drugs.
question 2:
Read the following paragraph. How does sentence 4 develop the main idea of the paragraph?

Gertrude Belle Elion was born on Jan. 23, 1918, in New York City.
She graduated from Hunter College in New York City with a degree in biochemistry in 1937.
Unable to obtain a graduate research position because she was a woman, she took a series of jobs, including lab assistant, chemistry and physics teacher in New York City high schools, and research chemist.
During this time she also took classes at New York University, where she earned a master's degree in 1941.
Because she could not devote herself to full-time studies, Elion never received a doctorate.
1 This sentence tells readers where she went to school for her doctorate degree.
2 This sentence shows Elion's determination and commitment to learn.
3 This sentence shows that Elion had to try many schools to get accepted into one.
4 This sentence proves the idea that Elion had to learn biochemistry in unusual ways.

We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and all were subjected to the same narrow examination. Silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons had to undergo the same indelicate inspection. At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon both slave and slaveholder."

When Douglass says that "silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the same indelicate inspection," what contrast is Douglass creating?
A. Douglass is contrasting the way young people were treated compared to the way older people
B. Douglass is contrasting young people with old people
C. Douglass is contrasting the peoples beauty with their negative treatment

“Crack” went the bat as the pitcher hit a home run.

personification
metaphor
onomatopoeia
hyperbole

Do you think people can learn how to make thoughtful decisions without much
encouragement from their families? Why? Why not?

Which of the following is the root word of loveable?

lov
love
able
le

PLZ HELP
Which of the following are poetic structures marked by line length and rhyme? Mark all that apply.

quatrains
couplets
synecdoche
personifications

explain what connections do you see between Ha's situation and the information read about the Vietnam Wars ? 5 to 6 sentences pleaseeeeeee help ASAP
Pleaseeeee

When preparing for a writing assignment, what Study Skill helps you see how ideas are related to the subject and to each other?

pair share
clustering
reading aloud
revising

ASAP.

To develop an essay, the writer should start by


a.brainstorming.

b.revising.

c.restating.

d.summarizing.

Look at the word list provided above. Copy the long vowel words into the space below.

Word Bank:
separate
explain
variety
dialogue
accuse
occupation
explode
approach
succeed
supreme
chronicle
knowledgeable
chauffeur
threatening

In “Paul Revere's Ride” what happens directly before Paul Revere starts his ride to alert people that the British are coming?

Revere discusses the plan with his friend.
Revere feels the morning coming in Concord.
Revere travels through the town of Medford.
Revere sees the light shining from the church tower.

“Integrity in its simplest form is purity of intention. It’s keeping a clean conscience.”
Do you agree/ disagree?
What does think is untrue about the quote? Are there any “gray areas”? Which quote seems the TRUEST to you?

Look at the word list provided above. Copy the words that do not have long vowel sounds or an initial digraph/trigraph into the space below.

Word Bank:

separate
explain
variety
dialogue
accuse
occupation
explode
approach
succeed
supreme
chronicle
knowledgeable
chauffeur
threatening

Which topic should appear in a conclusion?(1 point)

an introduction to your main ideas

the ideas you want your readers to remember

a transition to your next ideas on the topic

reasons and examples supporting your main ideas

Question 9 (Essay Worth 10 points)
(HC)

Read the following article on Gertrude Elion. Then, read the summary that follows. You will notice that the summary is incorrectly written. In this lesson, you learned six rules for writing an effective summary. Using this information, make three specific suggestions that would improve this ineffective summary.

Important note: Do NOT write a summary. You will write three suggestions for improving this summary. Your suggestions must be based on the six rules of effective summaries that you learned in the lesson.



Complete article from Encyclopedia Britannica

U.S. pharmacologist (one who studies drug interactions) Gertrude B. Elion received the Nobel prize for medicine in 1988 along with George H. Hitchings and Sir James W. Black. The three were awarded the prize for their development of drugs used to treat several major diseases.

Gertrude Belle Elion was born on Jan. 23, 1918, in New York City. She graduated from Hunter College in New York City with a degree in biochemistry in 1937. Unable to obtain a graduate research position because she was a woman, she took a series of jobs, including lab assistant, chemistry and physics teacher in New York City high schools, and research chemist. During this time she also took classes at New York University, where she earned a master's degree in 1941. Because she could not devote herself to full-time studies, Elion never received a doctorate.

In 1944 Elion joined the Burroughs Wellcome Laboratories (now part of GlaxoSmithKline (a company that makes prescription medicines)). There she was first the assistant and then the colleague of Hitchings, with whom she worked for the next four decades. Elion and Hitchings developed an array (variety) of new drugs that were effective against leukemia, autoimmune disorders, urinary-tract infections, gout, malaria, and viral herpes. Their success was due primarily to their innovative (characterized by new or unique) research methods. Rather than using the trial-and-error approach used by previous pharmacologists, Elion and Hitchings examined the difference between the biochemistry of normal human cells and that of cancer cells, bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens (disease-causing agents). They used this information to create drugs that could target a particular pathogen without harming the human host's normal cells. Their methods enabled them to eliminate much of the guesswork and wasted effort typical in previous drug research.

Although Elion officially retired in 1983, she helped oversee the development of azidothymidine (AZT), the first drug used in the treatment of AIDS. In 1991 she was awarded a National Medal of Science and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She died on Feb. 21, 1999, in Chapel Hill, N.C.



Student J. Doe's Summary

Gertrude Elion was born in 1918 in New York City. She went to school for many years and eventually won the Nobel prize. She was unable to obtain a graduate research position because she was a woman. She took a series of jobs, including lab assistant, chemistry and physics teacher in New York City high schools, and research chemist. She was a scientist who helped discover many important drugs that saved lives. Elion also discovered new ways to test drugs. She died in 1999, 16 years after she retired from Burroughs Wellcome Laboratories.I think she was a terrific scientist.

1. In paragraph 1 of this section, it says that after
World War II, the Vietnamese had “their
hopes kindled.” Based on context clues, what
do you think this word means the Vietnamese
were feeling? How did things turn out?

what are the “up and down feelings” that Brian experiences from using the contents of the survival pack in chapter 18 and 19 of hatchet

1. What does it mean to organize the concepts for a topic?

creating a piece for the audience to read

finding a way to group the information

presenting an idea or new information

reading an audience and deciding on a strategy


2. What is the topic of an informational writing piece?

the way you group information

the formal meanings of words

information and how it is organized

the subject or focus of your writing


3. For each organizational strategy you choose, you must make sure that it

has headings, charts, and tables.

makes sense for your audience.

is something that you are interested in.

is organized into a common group or category.


4.Doron has done his research and has selected the organizational strategy of definition. He has also brainstormed his topic of the Mandarin language to activate his overall thoughts. What is Doron’s next step in writing his informational article?

begin to work on his body paragraphs

decide on a good title

make an outline

write his introduction

A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation. He is much better fed and clothed, and enjoys privileges altogether unknown to the slave on the plantation. There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation. He is a desperate slaveholder, who will shock the humanity of his non-slaveholding neighbors with the cries of his lacerated slave.

—Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
Frederick Douglass

Which choice best illustrates Frederick Douglass’s viewpoint in the passage?

People enslaved in a city are better educated than those on a plantation.
People enslaved in cities are treated better because slaveholders worry what others think.
People enslaved in cities are treated worse than people enslaved on plantations.
Life is the same for enslaved people whether in the city or on a plantation.

In “Paul Revere's Ride” what happens directly before Paul Revere starts his ride to alert people that the British are coming?

Revere discusses the plan with his friend.
Revere feels the morning coming in Concord.
Revere travels through the town of Medford.
Revere sees the light shining from the church tower.

QUICK I NEED THIS!!!

What does Mrs. Jones imply to Rodger with the following statement?
"And next time, do not make the mistake of latching onto my pocketbook nor nobody else's- because shoes got by devilish ways to burn your feet."

1- Mrs. Jones implies that she is too old and crazy to deal with Roger.

2- Mrs. Jones implies that Roger is behaving like the devil and should burn the shoes.

3- Mrs. Jones implies that Roger would not enjoy wearing the shoes because they would make him feel guilty.

4- Mrs. Jones implies that if Rogers wears the stolen shoes, he would burst into flames.

Select the correct answer. Which of these lines is used as an aside? A. "Suddenly a chain reaction of gagging and screaming starts from the back of the line." B. "(in a falsely cheerful voice) We are now ready to board for Flight 5B." C. "I'm very sorry, sir, but you cannot get on the plane with those." D. "Someone needs to tell that to the little guy draped around her neck."

1. Each paragraph of your body should begin with a statement that connects to your:

examples.

quotation.

concrete details.

main idea.


2. What are TWO elements of informational writing that you will want to use for elaboration? Select TWO answers.

topics

introductions

conclusions

facts

quotations

3. In an informational text, there are elements that show specific characteristics or sensory descriptions that allow the audience to visualize and establish connections between ideas. What are these elements called?

body paragraphs

concrete details

quotations

cited sources


4.Jazzine is writing an informational essay on lemurs. She is working on her body paragraphs by following her outline. She has many facts and concrete details already written, but she wants to give more to her audience. What else could she add to her body paragraphs?

citing sources

relevant quotations

key components

initial ideas


5.What should you do before you begin writing the body paragraphs of your piece?

provide facts, quotes, and examples

choose an organizational strategy

cite your sources

come up with a conclusion

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Type in stray by cynthia rylant on google serch and watch that video and use this The stray peice

‘Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one has ever done it;
But he took off his coat and took off his hat,”
a. Who is the “he” in the poem?
b. Explain the context.
c. Pick out an example of alliteration from the given lines?

If your essay is 1,200 words long, and the editorial guidelines suggest a word range between 2,000-3,000 words, what should you do?

Please help me its due today!

Baby, you're a firework! This is an example of:

personification
irony
pun
metaphor