in the following paragraph, the writer has used only simple sentences. read the paragraph carefully out loud:

my hero

my gran is my hero. she is brilliant. she loves to read. she is easily bored. as a young girl, she struggled a great deal. she left home at 21. she moved to the west coast. there, she chose to educate herself. she chose studies over security. she lived in poverty for many years. she eventually got a job teaching at university. she married late in life. she had a beautiful family. she never stopped learning. she died with a burning curiosity about life.

rewrite the paragraph above. see if you can reorganize and restructure the sentences in a better way.

your paragraph should be long enough to show that you have mastered the sentence organization lessons in this section. your teacher will grade the paragraph based upon the organizational flow, the effective use of subordinate clauses to make effective connections between ideas, and the effective use of prepositional phrases.

What response does lincoln hope to elicit from his listeners with these words from his gettysburg address "we gave to come dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this

The following question asks about one or more selections from your literature textbook. you may use your textbook to answer this question. both “lob’s girl” and “jeremiah’s song” contain flashbacks. in a paragraph, explain what this plot technique adds to the stories. support your answer with one detail from each story.

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning