unit 2, lesson 4 green team 11.14.14. reading: long passages unit 2

Unit 2, Lesson 4Green Team11.14.14

Reading: Long PassagesUnit 2

Strategy: Mark the Long Passages

Skim the question stems for the passages about Mother Jones and Rachel Carson• The work of Mary Harris was particularly

noteworthy because• The author implies that Mother Jones became a

champion of workers’ rights because• Mother Jones’s family responded to the

oppression of the British by• Mother Jones learned to become a radical union

organizer through her association with

Strategy: Mark the Long Passages

• When Passage 1 refers to the “capriciousness of employers” (line 36), it means employers• According to Passage 1, Eugene V. Debs

organized the

• Mark the first passage as you read it. Be sure to:• Identify any opinions• Identify the purpose of each paragraph• Underline any key words or ideas• Include brief notes in the margin

• Turn to page 573 and answer the questions.

Strategy: Mark the Long Passages

• In Passage 2 the word constituencies (line 5) means• According to Passage 2, the reaction to Carson’s

findings and recommendations during her lifetime was• Rachel Carson pointed out the hazards to the

environment associated with• According to Passage 2, Carson maintained that

the use of insecticides was responsible for all the following EXCEPT

Strategy: Mark the Long Passages

• One of the most toxic ingredients in insecticides, according to the passage, is• The authors of the two passages would agree

that a quality shared by Mother Jones and Rachel Carson was

• Mark the second passage as you read it. Be sure to:• Identify any opinions• Identify the purpose of each paragraph• Underline any key words or ideas• Include brief notes in the margin

• Turn to pages 574 and answer the questions.

Writing Multiple Choice: Sentence CorrectionsUnit 2

Review: Sentence Corrections

1. Playing ball, swimming in the pool, and a diet without starchy foods help keep his weight down.

A. a diet without starchy foods helpB. avoiding starchy foods helpC. dieting without starchy foods helpsD. avoiding starchy foods helpsE. a diet without starchy foods helped

Review: Sentence Corrections

• B is correct

• To maintain parallel structure with playing and swimming the verb avoiding is required. • The verb must agree with a compound (plural)

subject

Review: Sentence Corrections

2. Seatbelts, while unquestionably a good idea, it’s sometimes a nuisance to use them.A. Seatbelts, while unquestionably a good idea, it’s sometimes a nuisance to use them.B. Seatbelts, while unquestionably a good idea, are sometimes a nuisance.C. Seatbelts are unquestionably a good idea and also they are sometimes a nuisance.D. Seatbelts, while unquestionably a good idea, but sometimes a nuisance.E. Seatbelts, while it’s unquestionably a good idea to have them, it’s sometimes a nuisance to use them.

Review: Sentence Corrections

• B is correct

• Seatbelts needs a verb, and it keeps the sentence from making sense• Choice C offers the verb, but it’s too wordy and

awkward

Review: Sentence Corrections

3. Your application for a scholarship arriving late, however: it will still be considered by the committee.A. arriving late, however; it will still be considered by the committeeB. arrived late, however the committee will consider it stillC. arrived late; however, the committee will still consider itD. will be considered by the committee that arrived lateE. arriving late and is being considered by the committee

Review: Sentence Corrections

• C is correct

• however is not a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS), so it cannot be used to join independent clauses with a comma. B is out.• Option D confuses the modifier. The other

options do not create complete sentences.

Review: Sentence Corrections

4. Living in the city for the first time, the traffic noise, she found, disrupted her sleep.A. the traffic noise, she found, disrupted her sleepB. she found that the traffic noise disrupted her

sleepC. she found out how the traffic noise disrupted

her sleepD. her sleep, she found, was disrupted by the

traffic noiseE. her sleep disrupted, she found, by traffic noise

Review: Sentence Corrections

• B is correct

• The original sentence says traffic noise lives in the city; the modifier is connected to the wrong subject.• B provides the correct subject for the modifier. C

also provides the correct subject, but that should be used in place of how.

Sentence & Paragraph Corrections

• Complete Paragraph Corrections #1, #2 and #3 in your Kaplan Practice Packet.

• General Organization Questions• Revising Sentences• Combining Sentences

• Practice by completing 30-35 on pages 743-744.

VocabularyUnit 2

24. arbitrary (adjective)

•unreasonable or unsupported

•synonyms: capricious, inconsistent, irrational

25. oblivious (adjective)

•unmindful or unaware; forgetful

•synonyms: blind, inattentive

26. volatile (adjective)

• evaporating rapidly; tending or threatening to erupt in violence, explosive

•synonyms: erratic, fickle

27. allege (verb)

• to assert without proof

•synonyms: charge, declare

28. personage (noun)

• a person of distinction or importance

•synonyms: celebrity, dignitary

29. precursor (noun)

• a person or thing that precedes, as in a job or method

•synonyms: forerunner, harbinger

30. demagogue (noun)

• an orator or political leader who gains power by arousing people’s emotions and prejudices

•synonyms: agitator, firebrand, hothead, inciter