Implied Main Ideas: Test A

A-

1. A
2. D
3. B

B-

1. D

Home Work. For Ms Kristi

Writing Assignment 1:

Here is my first hour of an average day:

When I get up in the morning, I first take a bath, then I wear my clothes for work. Next I prepare breakfast, and while we are having breakfast, my husband and I talk about the programme of our day. Finally we go to work.

Writing Assignment 3:

Description of a day:

I don't know how to describe the day I was coming to the USA. I was confused. I had mixed feelings. First I was very exited, because I was going to start a new life. Then I felt sad, especially because I had to leave my mum, my dad, all my family, and my friends. But most of all I was scared of the unknown that awaits for me the USA.

Reading Comprehension, Pages 165-67 For Ms Rosemary

1. B
2. A
3. C
4. A
5. A
6. D
7. A
8. A
9. D
10. B

The definition of justice according to the dictionary is: "The maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments." We all desire to live in a just world. However, justice can not be always attainable. Here is the example of Sami Al Hajj, the only journalist among of the 779 known detainees in Guantanamo Bay.

"The journalist, Sami al-Hajj, was working for Al Jazeera as a cameraman when he was stopped by Pakistani forces on the border with Afghanistan in late 2001. The United States military accused Mr. Hajj of, among other things, falsifying documents and delivering money to Chechen rebels, although he was never charged with a crime during his years in custody." As stated in New York Times.

Sami Al Hajj is a Sudanese journalist for the Al Jazzeera network. He was born in khartoum, on February 15, 1969. He received his Bachelor's Degree in English literature from a university in India in 1993. He got married to Asmae , a girl from Adrebedjan, in 1998. They had a boy, Mohamed, in 2000, and they were having a normal life.

In December 2001 Aljazeera sent Sami to cover the war against the Taliban. He was in his way to do his job, when he was arrested in the Pakistani border with Afganistan. He was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp for over six years. He was interrogated for more then 200 times. He was beaten. He witnessed guards flushing the Qur'an down a toilet. He has been sexually assaulted. And for more then six years his wife was deprived from her husband, and his son was deprived from his father.

After all this Sami was released without charge on May 1, 2008. They said it was a misunderstanding. They had mistaken him for another Sami who worked for Aljazeera, and had an interview with Osama Binladen. Sami was an innocent man who suffered for no reason. Even if Sami is a free man, the damage this experience caused is still affecting his life. He still suffers from depression, and is losing the will to live.

When we hear stories like this we doubt that justice exists, or we can say :"OK, life is not fair, it happened all the time." But we can not imagine that it may happened to us or someone we care about. I think that we have to say No to the injustice with a very lowed voice, so the rest of the world can hear it. Because there are so many people getting away with crimes they have committed, and many others are accused of offences they haven't done.

The implied main idea. for Ms Rosemary.

The implied main idea is not stated in the paragraph or passage. It is puzzled out by the various details. To figure out an implied main idea ; I think we have to attentively read the passage, then ask our selves: - What the author wants to tell us? -What all these details are about? - What is the idea the author wants to explain to us? And our answer has to cover all the details in the passage.

Practices 1,2,and 3. For Ms Rosemary:

Practice 1:

1. D
2. B
3. D
4. A
5. C
6. B

Practice 2:

1. C
2. D
3. B

Practice 3:

1- Topic: The reasons for lying.

Implied main idea: There are many reasons for lying.

2-Topic: The only children.

Implied main idea: The disadvantages being an only child.

3- Topic: death penalty.

Implied main idea: People have opposed the death penalty for several reasons.

Writing Quiz 3. for Ms Kristi.

1. A
2. C
3. C
4. B
5. C
6. C
7. A
8. B
9. B
10. B

Supporting Details: Mastery Test 1. For Ms Rosemary

A- Main idea: Divorce has serious negative consequences.
Minor details 1- a. Starting to date again can be nerve-racking.
Major details2- Emotional difficulties among the original family members are common.
Minor details a.The former husband and wife may have some feelings of guilt and resentment.
Major details 3- Financial adjustment are necessary.
Minor details a. Alimony, child support, and property dispersal must be dealt with.
B-
7- B
8- A
9- C
10- Pigs undo complicated bolts on gates in search of adventure or romance.

Supporting Details: Test A. For Ms Rosemary

A-

1. D
2. C
3. A
4. C
5. D
6. Herbivorous (eat plants)

B-

Main idea: There are three categories of burn injuries.

1. First-degree burns-leave a painful red mark, do not break skin.
2. Second-degree burns-
3. Third-degree burns-burn the outer and lower layers of skin, cause some serious infection.

Practices 5-6 pages 31-2 For Ms Kristi.

Practice 5:

1- N.T: Popular music.

• C.I: Popular music is not always good music.
• T.S: When a song or a style of music is popular it doesn't means that it has to be good.

2-N.T: Credit cards.

• C.I: Credit cards can be dangerous.
• T.S: If you don't use your credit cards carefully it can destroy you financially.

3-N.T: A person you like or dislike.

• C.I: I hate my boss :-).
• T.S: I hate my boss for several reasons.

Practice 6:

Paragraph 1: Animals can save our lives.

Paragraph 2: The digital photography has many advantages.

Homework on pages 125-8. For Ms Rosemary

1-Discussion Question:
The style of parenting that I grow up with is "Authoritative". My parents was the bosses in the house. They set up the rules and they decided what is wrong and what is right. But I remember that every time I asked for an explanation; like "Why I can't do this?" or "why I have to do this?" I got a response from one of them. And I remember too that they never forced me to do something. They let me choose, and when did some thing wrong I got punished, but when I did the right thing I approved.
I think that my parent's way to raise me has a very big influence on how I am now. It makes me be able to decide and choose what I want to do in my life, and be responsible for the results of my decisions and my choices.
2-Reading Comprehension Questions:

1. B
2. A
3. D
4. A
5. ... and she identified three categories of parenting styles.

A- Two influences on how a child behaves:

• The basic temperament children are born with.
• How children are treated by their parents.

B- Three parenting styles:

• Authoritative
• Authoritarian
• Permissive

Review test 1,2,and 3. for Ms Rosemery

Review test 1:

1. Major supporting details are more specific then main ideas. Minor details are more specific then major details.
2. True.
3. Outlining is a way to show at a glance the relationship between a main idea and its supporting details.
4. In maps, you create a visual outline using circles, boxes and other shapes to set off main ideas and supporting details.
5. ...You will often find it useful to write out each definition in full and then select and summarize one example of that definition.

Review test 2:

A- Main idea: Several factors influence the justice system's treatment of criminals.

-Major detail: 1- The sex of the offenders effect the severity of sentences.

+Minor details:

• a. Woman less likely to receive death penalty than a man.
• b. The court is more reluctant to send a mother to prison than a father.

-Major detail: 2-The treatment of offenders is their race.

+Minor detail:

• a. Nonwhites are awarded parole and probation less often.
• b. Blacks are executed more often for capital crimes.

-Major details: 3-Age of offenders considered in sentencing.

+Minor details:

• a. Young offenders are given special treatment.
• b. More lenient sentences for the elderly.

B-

• 8:C
• 9:C
• 10:A

Review test 3:

A-Main idea: Serious depression has definite warning signs.

1. Change in sleep patterns.
2. Abnormal eating patterns.
3. Trouble in thinking or concentrating.
4. General feeling of hopelessness.

B- Main idea: There are three common ways that people deal with their feeling.

• Withhold them.
• Display them.
• Describe them.