Week1

Name: ______Review Packet #1 Week #1

Part I: Regents Review

Directions: Read the poem by Margaret Walker, answer the multiple-choice questions, and then fully respond to the short answer questions.

Lineage My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil. They moved through fields sowing seed. They touched earth and grain grew. They were full of sturdiness and singing. My grandmothers were strong. My grandmothers are full of memories Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay With veins rolling roughly over quick hands They have many clean words to say. My grandmothers were strong. Why am I not as they? —Margaret Walker from For My People, 1942 Yale University Press

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. The narrator implies that the strength of grandmothers results from their (1) cheery songs (3) large bodies (2) long lives (4) hard work

2 “They touched earth and grain grew” (line 4) suggests the grandmothers’ role of (1) protector (3) teacher (2) provider (4) entertainer

3 In order to emphasize her feelings about her grandmothers, the narrator uses (1) repetition (3) simile (2) onomatopoeia (4) symbolism

4 The narrator’s feeling toward her grandmothers is best described as (1) resentment (3) admiration (2) embarrassment (4) concern

5 In comparison to the grandmothers, the narrator is seen as (1) more nurturing (3) less intelligent (2) more religious (4) less capable Short Answer Questions:

1. Explain how the author uses imagery to convey the idea about the influence of grandmothers.

2. From what point of view is the poem told?

3. Explain how the author’s use of point of view (1st person, 2nd person, or 3rd person) impacts the poem’s meaning.

4. What is the significance of the final line of the poem?

Part II: Grammar

Just when you thought you had apostrophes figured out, along comes the slightly tricky rule for making proper nouns ending in s possessive. In most cases, simply add an apostrophe (‘) and an s to these nouns, as you would with any other noun. For example, Dickens becomes Dickens’s.

But if the last syllable of the noun ends in an “eez” sound, add only an apostrophe: Euripides becomes Euripides’. If the s at the end of the noun is unpronounced, also add only an apostrophe: Descartes becomes Descartes’.

Practice these rules in the following phrases:

1. The architecture of Athens = ______

2. The motorcycle of James = ______

3. The movies of Bette Davis = ______Part III: SAT Review

Improving Sentences: The improving sentences sections of the SAT tests your ability to recognize errors in grammar and sentence structure. A part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined section. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original is better than any of the alternatives, select answer choice A, if not select one of the other choices. Your choice should produce the most effective sentence based on the available answer choices.

1. The attorney argued against the motion to dismiss the case fervently, only to see his efforts to come to naught. a. against the motion to dismiss the case fervently b. fervently against the motion to dismiss the case c. the motion to dismiss the case fervently d. fervently in opposition to the motion to dismiss the case e. against the motion to dismiss the case

*Define: fervently - ______

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2. Wherever Tom was planning to go, the snowstorm made all travel unfeasible. a. Wherever Tom was planning to go b. Where ever Tom was planning to go c. Whatever place Tom was planning to go d. Wherever Tom planned e. Wherever Tom's intended destination was

Define: subordinating conjunction- ______

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3. Eating vegetable every day not only provides one with vital nutrients but then stimulates your body too. a. but then stimulates your body too b. and stimulates one's body c. but also stimulates one's body d. as well as stimulating one's body e. but stimulates one's body along the way

*Define: correlative conjunction-______

______Then & Now: Aron Ralston

June 19, 2005 BOULDER

In April 2003, Aron Ralston made the gut-wrenching decision to hack off his arm to free himself after a boulder had pinned him to the ground in a remote area of the Utah Canyons. Today, Ralston draws on that determination to continue climbing mountains and sharing his story of survival.

Ralston's journey that spring changed the young man both physically and mentally.

"I was transformed, as I was in that canyon," the avid outdoorsman and mountaineer told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an interview last September. In 2003, Ralston, then 27, was climbing alone in Blue John Canyon in southeastern Utah. He told no one about his planned route, a decision he would come to regret.

He had just scrambled over an 800-pound boulder when it came loose and sent the young man flying down the canyon wall. The boulder came to rest on his right hand, trapping him for five days with little food or water.

"There was pain. There was panic. There was the realization that, at first, I couldn't get my arm out, even though I was just thrashing my body about," he told CNN. "And what followed from there was 45 minutes of just ... hurtling my body against the boulder, trying to heave and lift from beneath it to pull it maybe towards me and try to dislodge it."

After struggling to come to terms with his predicament, Ralston began considering his options. Over the next several days, he drank his own urine to stay hydrated and experimented with the idea of amputating his arm with a pocketknife, but he had no way of sawing through two bones in his arm.

Ralston also began using his digital camcorder to record last messages for his family. "I'm sorry," he told them. "You guys make me proud."

On the sixth day of his ordeal Ralston realized that amputating his arm was the only way he would survive. He had no tools capable of sawing through the bones in his arm, so he bent his arm down and, using his body as a lever, snapped the bones in half.

"I bent my arm farther and farther, and then finally, this cracking, splintering sound, kind of like a cap gun, then, POW! It echoed up and down the canyon. I knew that I had broken my bone. And yes, it hurt. It hurt a lot," he told CNN.

Next, Aron carefully cut away at his arm, trying to avoid major arteries until last when he could quickly tighten a tourniquet that he'd fashioned from the tubular insulation of his CamelBak, a backpack designed to hold water.

Ralston likens the pain he felt when he cut the nerves in his arm to sticking his entire arm in a vat of hot magma. "At the same time, that pain was just one more thing I had to do, and it was, in some sense, a very beautiful feeling, too. ... It was liberation," he told CNN.

But the outdoorsman was not out of danger yet. Ralston still had nearly four hours of hiking ahead of him as he made his way out of the canyon. With blood dripping down his legs and covering his shoes, Ralston walked until he came upon a family hiking. They helped him reach rescuers who were searching for him near the trailhead.

"He was absolutely coated in blood. His shoes were covered with blood," rescue helicopter pilot Terry Mercer recalled. "And as they loaded him in the helicopter, the deputy reached in and said, 'He's amputated his arm; we've got to go to the hospital quick.' "

Ralston chronicled his harrowing experience in the best-selling book, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place," published in 2004. And he shares the lessons he learned from his ordeal as a motivational speaker.

"I had to make a decision to go forward not knowing what was going to come," he told CNN. "And that was important, that I took action in that moment, overcoming that fear."

Today, Ralston continues to take action. With the aid of a custom-made prosthesis, Ralston recently completed a climb of nearly 23,000 feet to the summit of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest peak in South America.

He says the drive to climb the next mountain is what sustains him.

The Park Service later retrieved Ralston's hand, using a crew of men and a winch and jack to lift the boulder. At Ralston's family's request, his hand was cremated and his journey came full circle when he returned to the place where he'd been trapped for six days to scatter the ashes.

"I sprinkled some of the ashes up canyon ... and (I) cried tears of absolute joy that I was alive. Being able to complete that circle is a beautiful part of that whole experience, too," he told CNN.

http://articles.cnn.com/2005-04-04/us/cnn25.tan.ralston_1_aron-ralston-arm-canyon-wall/2?_s=PM:US Name ______

After reading the article, “Then and now: Aron Ralson” please complete the following chart.

What’s really important? What’s not that important? 1. 1.

Summary: Using your information you gathered, write a summary of 4 sentences answering the following question. How did you determine what is really important in the article?

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