Unit test review. – Flashcards

A fact is true and can be proven, while a(n) is someone's belief or idea.

Who tells the story and how it is told are known as

President Reagan's speech was mainly written to

Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country." Today the citizens of the United States have come together once more because of armed conflict and enemy attack. Terrorism has led to devastation—and unity. Which statement best explains the role context plays in better understanding this excerpt?

Which guidelines should be followed when creating a works cited page using MLA format? Check all that apply.

Which action is an example of plagiarism?

Review the information for a magazine that a student intends to include on a works cited page. Magazine: Academic Review Title of Article: The College Application Process Page Numbers: 111-114 Author: Judson Cosby Date of Publication: December 1, 2013 Which citation is formatted correctly using MLA guidelines?

Some speakers will use ⇒ multimedia , or more than one form of communication (graphics, charts, and video clips) to connect with the audience.

A word's denotation is

A science teacher gives the presentation assignment below. Let's make our families earth-friendly. Consider whether or not your family respects the environment. Discuss your routines and practices with your parents, and determine your family's "footprint." Then, suggest to your peers one earth-friendly effort that every family should make. Which statement best expresses a strong claim for the presentation?

Amaya is taking notes for her presentation on the effects of air pollution, and she finds data about how pollution can cause a number of serious respiratory illnesses. In which portion of Amaya's presentation does this information fit?

A teacher assigns the following prompt to a student and then directs the student to create a presentation. Research the current proposal for a baseball park in downtown Huntington. Use news releases and county documents. Determine the benefits and drawbacks of the proposal and take a position on the issue. Convince your classmates whether it should be constructed or not. What will be the purpose of this presentation?

Read the excerpt from President Reagan's Address at Moscow State University. Even as we explore the most advanced reaches of science, we're returning to the age-old wisdom of our culture, a wisdom contained in the book of Genesis in the Bible . . . In this excerpt, Reagan uses

Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country." What is the point of this splintered whole? What is the point of a nation in which Arab cabbies chauffeur Jewish passengers through the streets of New York—and in which Jewish cabbies chauffeur Arab passengers, too, and yet speak in theory of hatred, one for the other? What is the point of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the verge of fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and straights, left and right, Pole and Chinese and Puerto Rican and Slovenian? Other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities. Which statement best summarizes the central idea of this paragraph?

Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country." America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion, the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone. "Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image," the historian Daniel Boorstin wrote. That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal. The reality is often quite different, a great national striving consisting frequently of failure. Many of the oft-told stories of the most pluralistic nation on earth are stories not of tolerance, but of bigotry. Slavery and sweatshops, the burning of crosses and the ostracism of the other. Children learn in social-studies class and in the news of the lynching of blacks, the denial of rights to women, the murders of gay men. It is difficult to know how to convince them that this amounts to "crown thy good with brotherhood," that amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful. Perhaps they understand it at this moment [in the aftermath of 9/11], when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, demands a time of reflection on enormous blessings. Which statement best traces the development of a central idea from one paragraph to the next?