Style Academy
English 2010
March 12, 2019
Absent
March 14, 2019
“Writing Sentences”
1. When Myka began to sing, it surprised her mother.
2. At the crack of dawn, Myka sang in the process of surprising her mother.
3. Myka sang causing her mother to be surprised by the beautiful sound coming from her
daughters mouth.
4. A dog ran across the road causing her mother to be surprised, but Myka sang a toon for
the dog to run across.
5. When Myka sang in the school play, it surprised her mother.
6. While driving to the dentist, her mother was surprised at what a horrible sound was
coming from the backseat, it was Myka singing.
7. When Myka sang, it surprised her mother.
8. It surprised her mother when Myka sang.
9. Because it surprised her mother, Myka sang louder.
10. Myka sings to surprise her mother for her birthday.
Non-hibakusha employers developed a prejudice against the survivors as word got around that
they were prone to all sorts of ailments, and that even those, like Nakamura-san, who were not
cruelly maimed and had not developed any serious overt symptoms were unreliable workers,
since most of them seemed to suffer, as she did, from the mysterious but real malaise that came
to be known as one kind of lasting A-bomb sickness: a nagging weakness and weariness, a
dizziness now and then, digestive troubles, all aggravated by a feeling of oppression, a sense of
doom, for it was said that unspeakable diseases might at any time plant nasty flowers in the
bodies of their victims, and even in those of their descendants.
-John, Hersey, Hiroshima
Having a positive attitude is something that you must strive for and aim to get better at, like
those who have laid the groundwork before us, such as presidents or ancestors, they have been
through many trials and hardships, since many of them did not have the technology or counselors
or self-help books as we have now, they had to work to have an attitude of greatness and
positivity, now you really want to know how to obtain that positive attitude, well here are the
skills that you will need to get you there: a happiness around you at all times, the ability to want
to always do and be better, and the skills needed to get there, if you use these skills you will
become more positive in your life.
March 18, 2019
Phrases and Clauses
On the front porch steps=phrase
After the dinner party=phrase
We ate peas and carrots=clause
After running to the store=phrase
While I nodded=clause
Geopolitical conflicts between nations will always be with us.
This doesn’t mean we need to be afraid of each other.
Because of geopolitical conflicts between nations always being with us, this doesn’t mean we
need to be afraid of each other.
Now that geopolitical conflicts between nations will always be with us, this doesn’t mean we
need to be afraid of each other.
As long as this doesn’t mean we need to be afraid of each other, geopolitical conflicts between
nations will always be with us.
Although geopolitical conflicts between nations will always be with us, this doesn’t mean we
need to be afraid of each other.
I combined these sentences using subordinating conjunctions. The meaning changes and the
importance of the sentence changes when you add subordinating conjunctions. Some sentences
can be changed and have a whole different interpretation by just adding in that conjunction.
March 20, 2019
Manipulating Parts
Opener: modifier, main idea.
Closer: main idea, modifier.
Interrupter: main, modifier, idea.
Multiples: modifier, main idea, modifier.
main, modifier, idea, modifier.
Opener: Putting his own preferences above everything else, Snowden self-indulgently
short-circuited the democratic structures of accountability.
Closer: Snowden self-indulgently short-circuited the democratic structures of accountability,
putting his own preferences above everything else.
Interrupter: Snowden, putting his own preferences above everything else, self-indulgently
short-circuited the democratic structures of accountability.
Opener: Snowden self-indulgently short-circuited the democratic structures of accountability, he
was putting his own preferences above everything else.
I like the opener the best because it creates an idea and a picture for the reader when using the
modifier first before the main idea. It shows how Snowden was putting his own preferences
before everything else and then it goes into the details about how he did so.
March 25, 2019
Sentence Combining
People who have become highly creative and productive learn to acknowledge their failures,
embrace their failures, and even explore and learn from those failures.
People who have become highly creative and productive learn to acknowledge their failures:
they even embrace them, explore them, learn from them. (asyndeton)
When people who have become highly creative and productive learn to acknowledge their
failures, they even embrace them; they explore and learn from them.
People who have become highly creative and productive learn to acknowledge their failures, and
they even embrace their failures and explore their failures and learn from their failures.
(polysyndeton)
As the weeks passed, Maurice slowly grew more grayer and wrinkled. He began to lose the
bounce in his step and along with that came no more makeup wearing and his impeccable clothes
had spots on them. One day I decided to come in earlier than I normally do, I saw him running
frantically from table to table in the dining room. While he was rubbing his finger across the
middle of a jagged crack, he shouted at me “look at this plate”. He watched it shatter into tiny
pieces into the carpet as he hurled it at the wall. He went to table to table, looking at all the
plates, hurling one after the other against the wall. He hurled another plate to the wall watching
the pieces shatter into the carpet.
March 27, 2019
Participles and Participial Phrases
Waiting motionless for game to wander by
Landing on my back
Struggling to inhale, to exhale, to do anything
A participle are verbs that end with -ing or sometimes -ed, while acting like adjectives (they
modify nouns)
I fell ten feet to the ground, landing on my back.
Landing on my back, creates this motion and makes the sentence combine and use less words
Long credited with changing the way Y.A. fiction is written, Hinton’s novel changed the way
teenager read as well, empowering a generation to demand stories that reflected their realities.
Opinion, fact, opinion.
The girl rested on her crutches.
Waiting for the train to come, the girl rested on her crutches.
Looking very tired, the girl rested on her crutches, waiting for the train to come.
The girl rested on her crutches, waiting for the train to come.
April 2, 2019
“Slang Rebels”
Rhetorical Situation
The writer conveys the problem very well throughout the essay. He explains how slang words
have been used and the misunderstanding of how they used. The writer certainly knows their
background and has done research. He uses his tools and references well known professors. They
have pulled in information and facts from many sources to get their purpose across. The audience
would be for anyone wanting to know more about slang words or college students, and even high
school students who use slang words the most. The purpose was to explain how slang words
have been used in our language improperly but have still made it into our English language. We
are consumers of language, either formal or informal.
Academic/ Technical Writing
The writer creates a very clear and concise message that everyone would understand. Everything
was organized very well and his paragraphs had a beginning thesis sentence. He has scientific
evidence which goes back to logos. He creates ethos with his credibility and those of the
professors. Pathos is shown with the topic itself and how people choose to talk.
Research Skills
He has a page and a half of sources which he cites properly. He uses many sources and has many
facts. His in-text citations are correctly cited and he makes sure that everything he says that isn’t
his is cited.
April 4, 2019
Appositives
It adds information by reassuring what the subject is. It has to go apposite of the information
your reassuring.
1. Can be used to identify or rename. Alan Guth, a physicist at MIT, described an example
from his own family of how easily we turn the random in to an omen.
2. Can be used to explain or give examples.
3. Can be used to define.
4. Can be used to summarize. Also, the writers insight.
You can use two different strategies in a sentence or paragraph.
Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian and the first woman to serve as president of Harvard University,
recently testified before the United States Congress to encourage the government to fund more
science research.
Drew Gilpin Faust recently testified before the United States Congress to encourage the
government to fund more science research, being a historian and the first woman to serve as
president of Harvard University.
April 8, 2019
Active and Passive Voice
Passive is when the subject is receiving, not doing the action. Ex. Splitter was blocked by James.
Active ex. James blocked Splitter.
We examined all the applicant’s academic record to determine whether they established a strong
affirmative case in regard to their character of general education, and fitness for graduate work in
a proposed subject of study. Letters of recommendation from persons in a position to analyze the
candidate’s abilities and to estimate their promises will be given very serious consideration. The
results of the Graduate Record examination are used as a supplementary objective to check on
the candidate’s aptitudes and knowledge. When we consider an applicant, regard will be given to
character and promise as well as scholastic attainment. A personal interview is not required.
April 10, 2019
“The Semicolon”
Teaching young children to read is easier if the children read at home with their parents;
therefore, parental involvement in a child’s early education can greatly affect the child’s later
success in life.
They repeated the same experiment in the following four places: Austin, Texas; Tallahassee,
Florida; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Des Moines, Iowa.
