As you go through the beginning lines of the poem, what do you notice, what grabs your attention? 

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The Journey by Mary Oliver
 

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice —
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voice behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do —
determined to save
the only life that you could save.

 

Questions:

 

  1. As you go through the beginning lines of the poem, what do you notice, what grabs your attention?
  2. Explain the meaning of the poem after you have read it twice.
  3. Explain her major metaphors and what they mean to you as you look at your life.
  4. Explain how this poem connects to Dao’s essay “Sincerity”.
  5. How is this poem connected to Oliver’s quote that began this class? Explain.
 
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Describe Brene Brown’s background and your impressions of her.

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  • Describe Brene Brown’s background and your impressions of her.
  • Explain what her objective is with regard to this presentation. In other words, what is her thesis?
  • Explain the importance of “If you can’t measure it, it does not exist” and why she brings it up.
  • How did she see life when she started her research?
  • What does she say about connection?
  • Describe her definition of shame.
  • What did she learn as a result of her research as she was going through it?
  • How does she describe “whole hearted people”? Be very specific.
  • Describe her initial contacts with a therapist and what made it funny.
  • How do we control vulnerability and how does that affect us?
  • How is blame describe in the research?
  • Explain how this presentation is particularly meaningful to you.
 
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Read the following numbered passage and answer the question that follows.(1) Ben Brown, a robotics engineer, came up with a new design

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Group of Words Fragment•Has Subject

 

•Missing Verb

 Fragment•Missing Subject

 

•Has Verb

 Fragment•Missing Subject

 

•Missing Verb

 Sentence•Has Subject

 

•Has Verb
Throughout the European continent.
Snatched the man’s briefcase and ran off.
The blacksmith’s new apprentice.
Fernando requested new equipment.
Will Sanjeev remember to call us?

 

 

 

Directions: Read the following numbered passage and answer the question that follows.(1) Ben Brown, a robotics engineer, came up with a new design. (2) For the pogo stick. (3) Brown’s invention, which is called the BowGo, utilizes a flexing fiberglass strip. (4) This strip can store much more elastic energy. (5) Than a conventional steel coil. (6) The result is much higher bouncing, and in turn, much more fun.

 

Which of the following are true? Check all that apply.

 

Sentence 2 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 1.

Sentence 5 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 4.

Sentence 2 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 3.

Sentence 3 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 2.

Sentence 3 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 4.

Sentence 4 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 3.

Sentence 4 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 5.

Sentence 5 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 6.

 

 

 
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Explain the first things that catch your attention and why they do. 

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The Making of Poems

by Gregory Orr

 

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

When I was 12 years old, I was responsible for the death of my younger brother in a hunting accident. I held the rifle that killed him. In a single moment, my world changed forever. I felt grief, terror, shame and despair more deeply than I could ever have imagined. In the aftermath, no one in my shattered family could speak to me about my brother’s death, and their silence left me alone with all my agonizing emotions. And under those emotions, something even more terrible: a knowledge that all the easy meanings I had lived by until then had been suddenly and utterly abolished.

One consequence of traumatic violence is that it isolates its victims. It can cut us off from other people, cutting us off from their own emotional lives until we go numb and move through the world as if only half alive. As a young person, I found something to set against my growing sense of isolation and numbness: the making of poems.

When I write a poem, I process experience. I take what’s inside me — the raw, chaotic material of feeling or memory — and translate it into words and then shape those words into the rhythmical language we call a poem. This process brings me a kind of wild joy. Before I was powerless and passive in the face of my confusion, but now I am active: the powerful shaper of my experience. I am transforming it into a lucid meaning. Because poems are meanings, even the saddest poem I write is proof that I want to survive. And therefore it represents an affirmation of life in all its complexities and contradictions.

An additional miracle comes to me as the maker of poems: Because poems can be shared between poet and audience, they also become a further triumph over human

isolation. Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I’m not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through something similar to what I’ve experienced, or felt something like what I have felt. And their poem gives me hope and courage, because I know that they survived, that their life force was strong enough to turn experience into words and shape it into meaning and then bring it toward me to share. The gift of their poem enters deeply into me and helps me live and believe in living.

 

1) Explain the first things that catch your attention and why they do.

2) Explain what information from his personal experience you found most

interesting.

3) Explain what you have learned from this essay that would make your essays

better.

4) Explain what he believes about the value of poetry.

5) How has his description of poetry influenced your own ideas about poetry?

 
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The floor of the cave was slippery, but the group wore sturdy boots that gripped the ground.

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1)The floor of the cave was slippery, but the group wore sturdy boots that gripped the ground.

 

a-Group of answer choices

 

b-separates items in a series

 

c-joins two main clauses

 

d-sets off an introductory clause, phrase, or word

 

e-sets off a nonrestrictive modifier (modifying words that could be removed without loss of meaning)

 

2)The stalactites, which are rock structures that form down from the ceiling, looked like teeth in the mouth of the cave.

 

Group of answer choices

 

a-Aqueducts which are manmade systems to transport water, have been around since ancient times.

 

b-no change

 

 

3)The explorers found an underground lake, which allowed them to fill their canteens.

 

Group of answer choices

 

a-separates items in a series

 

b-separates coordinate adjectives (adjectives that independently modify the same noun)

 

c-joins two main clauses

 

d-sets off a nonrestrictive modifier (modifying words that could be removed without loss of meaning)

 

 
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dentify if the groups of words down below are: 

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Directions: Identify if the groups of words down below are: 

Fragment•Has Subject•Missing Verb

Fragment•Missing Subject•Has Verb

Fragment•Missing Subject•Missing Verb

Sentence•Has Subject•Has Verb

 

1. The congresswoman from District 11.

2. Didn’t attend the sales seminar.

3. The book is a gift for Teresa.

4. Beneath the floorboards of the front porch.

5. Performs her best in front of a large crowd.

 

 

Directions: Read the following numbered passage and answer the question that follows.

 

(1) Bruce Spencer is a retired firefighter. (2) With a flair for inventing. (3) Drawing upon his background in aerospace engineering, Spencer came up with the Vurtego, a pogo stick that utilizes compressed air. (4) After it was featured on The Late Show with David Letterman. (5) The new toy gained popularity. (6) Spencer has now sold Vurtego to customers in more than 40 different countries.

 

 

Source: Sabar, Ariel. “Extreme Pogo.” Smithsonian, Sept. 2012, pp. 67-69.

 

 

Which of the following are true?  Check all that apply.

 

A. Sentence 2 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 1.

B. Sentence 4 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 5.

C. Sentence 2 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 3.

D. Sentence 3 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 2.

E. Sentence 3 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 4.

F. Sentence 4 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 3.

G. Sentence 5 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 4.

H. Sentence 5 is a fragment that belongs with sentence 6.

 

 

 
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What types of supporting ideas are these? Check all that apply.

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Main Point: I believe that gymnastics is the most difficult sport for women.

Supporting Ideas:A. I believe this because of the unique combination of strength, precision, and flexibility that gymnasts must have.B. Gymnasts also need to be able to combine power and grace all in one move.C. I remember when I was in high school, I got the highest score out of all female students on the Physical Fitness Challenge one year; it was simply because of my background in gymnastics.

 

What types of supporting ideas are these? Check all that apply.

 

A. Steps and procedures

B. Description

C. Explanation

D. Anecdote

 

 

 

Main Point: On warm summer nights, Joaquin enjoys dining from the Indian food cart in his neighborhood.Supporting IdeasA. Joaquin thinks the food is delicious; his stomach rumbles in anticipation of crisp and hot samosas, creamy tikka masala, and the sweet tartness of a mango lassi.B. Joaquin enjoys the atmosphere; the scent of exotic spices wafts into the humid summer air, and fireflies illuminate the dusky blue twilight.C. A lassi is a beverage made with yogurt that is similar to a milk shake.

 

What types of supporting ideas are these? Check all that apply.

 

A. Reasons

B. Facts

C. Statistics

D. Quotations

 

 

 

Supporting Ideas Effective Ineffective
1. If you can’t read, you can’t exercise the right to vote because you can’t read a ballot.
2. There are few good choices for political candidates.
3. Illiterate people likely experience anxiety over being asked to read in front of others.
4. People who can’t read might sign consent forms without being able to read them, so they can’t make informed choices.
5. Many people don’t bother to read long forms.
6. Illiterate people can feel lonely from trying to keep illiteracy a secret.
7. People who can’t read are unable to travel at will because they can’t read road signs.
8. Illiteracy causes many people to feel powerless.
 
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Main Point: I believe that gymnastics is the most difficult sport for women.

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Main Point: I believe that gymnastics is the most difficult sport for women.

Supporting Ideas:

A. I believe this because of the unique combination of strength, precision, and flexibility that gymnasts must have.

B. Gymnasts also need to be able to combine power and grace all in one move.

C. I remember when I was in high school, I got the highest score out of all female students on the Physical Fitness Challenge one year; it was simply because of my background in gymnastics.

 

What types of supporting ideas are these? Check all that apply.

 

A. Steps and procedures

B. Description

C. Explanation

D. Anecdote

 

 

 

Main Point: On warm summer nights, Joaquin enjoys dining from the Indian food cart in his neighborhood.

Supporting Ideas

A. Joaquin thinks the food is delicious; his stomach rumbles in anticipation of crisp and hot samosas, creamy tikka masala, and the sweet tartness of a mango lassi.

B. Joaquin enjoys the atmosphere; the scent of exotic spices wafts into the humid summer air, and fireflies illuminate the dusky blue twilight.

C. A lassi is a beverage made with yogurt that is similar to a milk shake.

 

What types of supporting ideas are these? Check all that apply.

 

A. Reasons

B. Facts

C. Statistics

D. Quotations

 

 

 

Supporting Ideas Effective Ineffective
1. If you can’t read, you can’t exercise the right to vote because you can’t read a ballot.
2. There are few good choices for political candidates.
3. Illiterate people likely experience anxiety over being asked to read in front of others.
4. People who can’t read might sign consent forms without being able to read them, so they can’t make informed choices.
5. Many people don’t bother to read long forms.
6. Illiterate people can feel lonely from trying to keep illiteracy a secret.
7. People who can’t read are unable to travel at will because they can’t read road signs.
8. Illiteracy causes many people to feel powerless.
 
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What was one take-away that you learned from the stories: What lessons are learned by the narrators?

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Chopin’s and Calvino’s stories are both about a moment of revelations of the self. What do the main characters learn in their respective stories. What was one take-away that you learned from the stories: What lessons are learned by the narrators? What lessons did you learn?

 
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What is the overall message of Thoreau’s “Solitude”? C

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What is the overall message of Thoreau’s “Solitude”? Consider the term epiphany, which is a moment of clarity and understanding. Discuss the following: Is there such a moment in this essay? If so, what triggers it?

 
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