6/3/10 Improving vocabulary skill chap 20 Ten words context 1. A 2. C 3. B 4. C 5. C 6. A 7. B 8. A 9. C 10. B Matching word with definition 1. Endow 2. Disdain 3. Expulsion 4. Ominous 5. Divulge 6. Diverse 7. Mortify 8. Detract 9. Elation 10. Nullify Sentence check 1 1. Detract 2. Ominous 3. Averse 4. Elation 5. modified 6. endow 7. expulsion 8. distain 9. divulge 10.
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is the author and illustrator of numerous picture books for children. Although she struggled in school and was unable to read until age 14 due to dyslexia‚ she found relief by expressing herself through art. Polacco endured teasing and hid her disability until a schoolteacher recognized that she could not read and began to help her. Thank you‚ Mr. Falker is Polacco’s retelling of this encounter and its outcome. Early years The early years of Polacco’s childhood were spent at her grandmother’s
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Biology Extended Essay Questions – Addressed by an EE Examiner Q1. Should students be encouraged to do an original piece of research‚ or should they analyze (in a new way) data that someone has collected (e.g.‚ data obtained from a previous research study that perhaps has been published in a journal)? If they use existing primary data‚ I am assuming that they will still carry out an actual experiment??? Answer: IB allows students to do science extended essays that are of two main ’types’.
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An author writes for many reasons. An author may give you facts or true information about a subject. If so‚ they are writing to inform. Some authors write fiction stories or stories that are not true. They write these stories to entertain you. Other authors may write to persuade or to try to get you to do something. What is the author’s purpose if the passage contains . . . Facts or true Information? Fiction? to Inform or Teach to Entertain Tries to get you to Persuade or to do something? Convince
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Esperanza throughout difficult times. Taylor helps support Turtle when she becomes her caretaker . When Taylor was given the baby in the beginning‚ she never committed to raise her. Taylor began to accept Turtle and the responsibilities that came along. Later on when Taylor and Turtle were in Mattie’s garden planting seeds‚ Turtle said her first word‚ “bean”. Taylor as a proud mother she hugged Turtle and tells her “ just about the smartest kid alive”. Taylor here supports Turtle as when Taylor’s
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Kaitlyn Truong Period 4 Literary Device Metaphor: A metaphor is a figure of speech in which there is a comparison between two things or object that are contradictory or different but have a common characteristic. Is similar to a simile but is a hidden comparison because a metaphor doesn’t use the words "like" or "as" like a simile does. Example: " My mother gets very hysterical. She’s not too bad after she gets something thoroughly digested‚ though." (The Catcher in the Rye 51 Function: When Holden
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1. Summarize colonial resistance to British taxation. The British began to tax the colonies to get them to help pay for the French and Indian War‚ which for the most part benefitted those colonies. People in England paid 25-30 times more taxes than the colonists‚ but the colonies were used to taxing and governing themselves. They made noise about being taxed without being represented but they knew for a fact that representation in Parliament was impossible‚ owing to the distance and time of travel
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The extended family ended with industrialisation Prior to the industrial revolution families were drastically different to how they are today. Extended families and kinship economies played a large part in family life as all land was owned and farmed upon by relatives beyond that of the nuclear family and as such people were born into certain roles in family rather than this being based on achievements and qualifications as it is nowadays. These roles would be passed down through generations and
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Ethnocentrism #1a.> The difference between the way that the Thais deal with traffic accidents is very different from our own in the manner that when an accident occurs they compare the damage done to each vehicle and then the damage done to each person. To call the police is a big waste of time because many other riders do not have a license. After the problem had been taken care of you are not supposed to make any other contact with the other party. It almost seems like the debate between the groups
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Laura Hillenbrand If no one stated to me this was non-fiction‚ I would have read the entire book with the impression that it was highly demonstrative fiction. The author is extremely detailed in her writings‚ but does so in a way that makes the book read like a novel. It is a very eye opening and fantastic book‚ and I recommend that everyone should read it. Louie Zamperini‚ the main character in the book. He is an Italian boy that grew up to be an Olympian in the 1936 Berlin Olympics‚ running the
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