Practice All
1.3.9 Practice: Complete Your Assignment
English 9 Sem 1
Points Possible: 30
Name:
Date:
Your ASSIGNMENT
Write a two-paragraph objective summary of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper." Identify
a theme of the story and explore how characterization and setting develop that theme. One paragraph
will be about character and the other paragraph will be about setting, but both paragraphs must be about
the same theme.
Your story should include the following elements:
• Two paragraphs, each about a different detail (character or setting) that shows the theme
Objective summaries that emphasize details related to each paragraph topic
• Clear, formal, academic language that shows your professionalism
You should have completed a draft of this assignment in the activity before this one. If you haven't done
So, go back and complete that activity now.
Tips for SUCCESS
Ask yourself these questions as you revise:
• Did I write two paragraphs about a theme in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
• Did I use one paragraph to describe how the main character's development contributed to the theme?
• Did I use the other paragraph to describe how the setting contributed to the theme?
- Did I maintain a formal style and an objective tone?
Scoring RUBRIC

Hurry 50pts read the excerpt from justice curtis’s dissenting opinion, then answer the question that follows. slavery, being contrary to natural right, is created only by municipal law. this is not only plain in itself, and agreed by all writers on the subject, but is inferable from the constitution, and has been explicitly declared by this court. the constitution refers to slaves as “persons held to service in one state, under the laws thereof.” . . . . it was certainly understood by the convention which framed the constitution, and has been so understood ever since, that, under the power to regulate commerce, congress could prohibit the importation of slaves; and the exercise of the power was restrained till 1808. a citizen of the united states owns slaves in cuba, and brings them to the united states, where they are set free by the legislation of congress. does this legislation deprive him of his property without due process of law? if so, what becomes of the laws prohibiting the slave trade? if not, how can a similar regulation respecting a territory violate the fifth amendment of the constitution? . . for these reasons, i am of opinion that so much of the several acts of congress as prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude within that part of the territory of wisconsin . . were constitutional and valid laws. –dissenting opinion on dred scott v. sandford, justice benjamin curtis which evidence best supports curtis’s opinion that dred scott should be free because he lived in a free territory? check all that apply. “the constitution refers to slaves as ‘persons held to service in one state’” “the convention which framed the constitution . . has . . the power to regulate commerce.” “a citizen of the united states owns slaves in cuba.” “does this legislation deprive him of his property without due process of law? ” “acts of congress as prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude within that part of the territory of wisconsin . . were constitutional and valid laws.”

Which of the following arguments uses a non sequitur fallacy? a. if we allow students to wear caps to school, soon we'll have to let them wear gang colors. b. you should vote for sylvia for class president because everyone else on the squad is voting for her. c. regulations on motorists should be lifted because factories are a bigger source of pollution. d. the gray wolves of winter falls park should be protected because they need our support.

How can an author reveal move information about a character