Unit 2, Lesson 4
Green Team
11.14.14
Reading: Long
Passages
Unit 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:
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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:
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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 Corrections
Unit 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 help
B. avoiding starchy foods help
C. dieting without starchy foods helps
D. avoiding starchy foods helps
E. 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 committee
B. arrived late, however the committee will consider it
still
C. arrived late; however, the committee will still
consider it
D. will be considered by the committee that arrived
late
E. 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
sleep
B. she found that the traffic noise disrupted her
sleep
C. she found out how the traffic noise disrupted
her sleep
D. her sleep, she found, was disrupted by the
traffic noise
E. 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.
Vocabulary
Unit 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