West Windsor-Plainsboro High School Language Arts I Honors Summer Reading Assignment 2013 The purpose of summer reading is to foster a lifelong love of literature in our students and to advance their literacy skills. We believe that students who read during the summer months improve their academic performance and expand their understanding of issues important in their community and the 21st century world. Discussions among administrators‚ teachers‚ students‚ and parents as well as consideration
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complete a task. Once the remarkable results were in‚ three different takes on the experience were written: an article‚ a passage and a video. Although these three all convey the same subject matter‚ they present it differently; the article simplifies the information for the reader‚ the video summarizes the information and provides a visual for the reader‚ and finally the passage provides a more detailed and objective analysis of the experiment. The video “Elephants Show Cooperation” brings
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The Purpose of Documentation: • To give due credit to the learned people whose ideas we have found good enough to use. • To enable readers to check up on the veracity or accuracy of any idea we claim to have borrowed from a respectable source. • To avoid the charge of plagiarism i.e. the charge of passing off other people’s ideas as our own. Abstract A very short summary of an academic essay usually placed at the top of the essay to give the reader a preview of the subject matter of the essay
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Commentary on “The Blindfold Horse” This passage is an early memory that appears to be rather memorable. The blindfold horse creates a striking image‚ and the passage is portrayed in a cinematic way by bringing the reader into the memory‚ then lifting them out again. The first paragraph is purely descriptive. It draws the reader into the scene of the memory by building up the image piece by piece. It starts with a rather broad statement of “It is winter.” allowing the reader to picture a
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Virginia Woolf Essay In these two passages‚ Virginia Woolf describes two different meals she had during a university visit; the first was served at a men’s college‚ while the second was served at a women’s college. In order to describe the meals‚ Woolf uses elements such as narrative structure‚ manipulation of language‚ selection of detail‚ and tone to contribute to the narrative effect of each passage. Her underlying attitude is that society treats men better than women. In her narrative
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is important in further studies which students have to undertake in their later academic work. One passage of reading is of narrative type‚ (it may be an extract from a story) and tests candidates’ understanding of events‚ characters‚ descriptions and also the perception of meanings which are implicit in the details of the story. One passage is a non‐fictional text containing information‚ argument‚ opinion‚ facts and ideas. Reading of this kind i
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In this passage “How Rumors Help Us Make Sense of an Uncertain World “by Nicholas Difonzo he defines rumor as unverified information that people think are important. He then explains where they come from‚ what they consist of‚ and what people get from them. He explains what makes a rumor; Rumors must be informational‚ acts of communication‚ significant to the tellers and audience‚ and never verified truthful information. Within the passage the rumors are described to be an encouragement to others
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Escape By Hereward Carrington All day long Orloff had paced his cell. The blackness of the sky outside was equaled only by the blackness of his thoughts. The deep rolling of the thunder reverberated through the thick stone walls of his prison‚ and every now and then a fitful gust of rain swirled through the tiny broken window‚ wetting his face as he stared out into the night. Orloff cursed‚ wiped the water from his face with his grimy fingers‚ and turned to pacing his cell once more.
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their answers from the passage : Passage 1 : [One day‚ emporer………………………………………………. he fell asleep.] (a) (1). What was Emperor Jovinian thinking about? Ans : his vast empire and the power he had over his people. (2) How did he feel? Ans : very proud and superior. (b)(1)Mention any two boastful thoughts of Jovinian? Ans : (i) ‘ I am the greatest – the most powerful.’ (ii) ‘Even God doesn’t have powers greater than mine’. (c) Find adjectives from the passage. Ans : proud ‚ superior
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Staff Selection Commission Paper I Section Officer (Audit) Exam January 2008 Question Paper (Fully Solved) ENGLISH Directions (Qs. 1 to 10) : In the following passage‚ some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. When we visited the volcano it was in a state of ...(1).... We stood near tip of the ...(2)... on an irregular plane. It was heaped ...(3)... stones and
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