ACTIVITY 1: DIRECTIONS: READ THE TEXT BELOW TAKEN FROM SHORT STORIES. IDENTIFY HOW THE AUTHOR’S HUMAN SITUATIONS AND EXPERIENCES ARE MOVING HIM TO WRITE SUCH LINES. TELL WHETHER THESE COULD BE INFLUENCED BY CULTURE, HISTORY, ENVIRONMENT OR ECONOMIC FACTORS.

1. Now, this rich man’s servants were always frying and cooking something good, and the aroma of the food wafted down to us from the windows of the big house.

2. DODONG THOUGHT TO HIMSELF HE WOULD TELL HIS FATHER ABOUT TEANG WHEN HE GOT HOME, AFTER HE HAD UNHITCHED THE CARABAO FROM THE PLOW, AND LET IT TO ITS SHED AND FED IT. HE WAS HESITANT ABOUT SAYING IT, BUT HE WANTED HIS FATHER TO KNOW. WHAT HE HAD TO SAY WAS OF SERIOUS IMPORT AS IT WOULD MARK A CLIMACTERIC IN HIS LIFE.

3. When the Americans recaptured the Philippines, they built an air base a few miles from our barrio. Yankee soldiers became a very common sight.

4. "I am afraid. He may not like me.“
"Does that worry you still, Maria?" my brother Leon said. "From the way you talk, he might be an ogre, for all the world. Except when his leg that was wounded in the Revolution is troubling him, Father is the mildest-tempered, gentlest man I know

5. The sight of the Señora’s flaccidly plump figure, swathed in a loose waist-less housedress that came down to her ankles, and the faint scent of agua de colonia blended with kitchen spice, seemed to her the essence of the comfortable world, and she sighed thinking of the long walk home through the mud, the baby’s legs straddled to her waist, and Inggo, her husband, waiting for her, his body stinking of tuba and sweat, squatting on the floor, clad only in his foul undergarments.​

person against person: the hunger games bookteens were sent to fight against each other. they were sent in groups of two's. but could only be one winner. this conflict gave me a emotion of sadness. it made me feel bad for the kids that was sent there.  

explanation:

they insisted that there was not enough time to learn everything.  

explanation:

if they were going to steal the answers that is simply because they insisted that there was not enough time to learn everything.  

which of the following statements about considering your audience and purpose is false?

you should think about what your audience already knows about your topic.- first choice

32.how is the rhythm in a lyric poem created?

by stressing certain words or syllables- first choice

33. which of the following describes an elegy?

a poem expressing sorrow for someone who has died- third choice

34.how does the audience know that the play is moving on to a new scene?

the scenery, lighting, and props change.-last choice

35. the internet is an electronic communications network that connects computer systems all over the world.- third choice

36. which of the topic sentences below best states the paragraph’s main idea?

there are several ways for students to earn money.- third choice

37.what tone does this passage convey?

satirical- third choice

38.what point is he trying to make by wearing the veil for most of his life?

he means to show that everyone, not just he, has experienced sin and sorrow and should therefore try not to hide it from others or from god.- first choice

39.based on the sentence’s context clues, how do you think the character feels?

excited- third choice

40.what tone does this passage convey?

pessimistic- second choice

i don't really love my math teacher

explanation:

and the reason being is because she get me in trouble for the smallest things that i really don't be doing all the time it be my friends that's around me.and i love to do things that other people but when she get on my nerves i don't talk to no one i just sit there and do my work half the time.

really not a paragraph just don't want to say a lot about her : )