We Miss You

Let me begin by saying how much I miss all of my students. I am thinking and missing them daily, and I will do my best to continue to support them and their families as the COVID-19 continues to impact our communities. I hope all of you are safe and healthy!
1. You matter and I miss you
2.Stay Safe
3.Be kind to your family
4. Investigate your own interests
5. Get creative (Journal)
6. Go outside every day
7.Find ways to make a difference
8. We'll be here when you get back

Love,
Mrs. Cascio

                                   Covington County School District                                                                      REVISED 3-25-2020

Parent Resources for Learning and Being Creative at Home

Below we have compiled a list of resources for parents and students to use at home. This list and any additional resources schools send home are voluntary. All resources sent home are to help parents and students continue learning at home. As you are on these websites there may be ads that could take your child to other sites or content that might not be appropriate for the age levels of some students so, parental monitoring is required.

Talking to Your Child About Current Events

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/talking-with-children.html The Center for Disease Control guidance for speaking to children and students

https://www.brainpop.com/health/diseasesinjuriesandconditions/coronavirus/ Brain Pop Video about the Coronavirus and what you can do to prevent the spread of the virus in a “kid-friendly” approach. (Parents please watch this video first to see if it is appropriate for your child.)

Reading Language Arts

Scholastic Learn at Home www.scholastic.com/learnathome

Students do not have to create an account. Choose a grade band to see articles that are grade-appropriate, like their weekly reader program.

Vocabulary.com www.vocabulary.com

Fry Instant Phrases http://timrasinski.com/presentations/fry_600_instant_phrases.pdf

The words in these phrases come from Dr. Edward Fry’s Instant Word List (High Frequency Words).  According to Fry, the first 300 words in the list represent about 67% of all the words students encounter in their reading.

Zeno Sight Words http://www.dps.k12.oh.us/content/documents/zenowordlist.doc

Dolch Sight Words https://sightwords.com/sight-words/dolch/

Wonderopolis http://wonderopolis.org/

Starfall www.starfall.com

Common Lit https://www.commonlint.org

TED Talks https://ed.ted.com

Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org

Smithsonian Magazine https://smithsonianmag.com/

Study Island https://www.studyisland.com/

Reading Rockets https://www.readingrockets.org

Funbrain https://funbrain.com

Prodigy Game https://prodigygame.com

Splash Learn https://www.splashlearn.com

Resource for Teaching The Great Gatsby

Parent Resource

Teaching The Great Gatsby: We offer a variety of resources to help you teach F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel and help students understand its historical context and literary impact.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (PDF)

The Great Gatsby (2013) Movie Purchase Option

The Great Gatsby Paired Poems

If and When Dreams Come True

You'll find yourself in still water,
Full moon silhouetting the sky.
The long train of desire, having gone,
Pulled out from this quiet pool of shadow,
Will have left you at peace with your hands,
A few flowers moving in the breeze.
There will be music in the wind,
A future found in some alcove of blossoming trees;
Each highway will have driven itself away,
And so you will be left, finally, alone:
Abandoned, even, by any word you've ever cared
    to read.
The moon will shine as it always has;
A cool seep will rise from the lake.

   W.S. Merk

Richard Cory

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich - yes, richer than a king -
And admirably schooled in every grace;
In fine we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
-    Edwin Arlington Robinson -

We Wear the Mask

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,-
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream other-wise,
We wear the mask!
        --Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dorothy Parker - 20s female poet

Social Note

Lady, lady, should you meet
One whose ways are all discreet,
One who murmurs that his wife
Is the lodestar of his life,
One who keeps assuring you
That he never was untrue,
Never loved another one . . .
  Lady, lady, better run!

    --Dorothy Parker

The Hollow Men

I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rat's feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar.

Shape without form, shade without color,
Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us - if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer.

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom.

III

This is the dead land
This is the cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdom.
In the last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

For thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper.

- T. S. Ellot (1925)

Name_________________________ Date ___________________

The Great Gatsby Paired Poems Activity

Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper for each poem.  Answer the questions separately for each poem. 

1. What is the dramatic situation of the poem? (What is taking place literally?)

2. Who is the speaker in the poem? (Or, at least, what do we know about him/her?)

3. To whom is he or she speaking? Who is the audience of the poem?  Is it a specific person or to the general reader?

4. What is a possible theme of the poem?  Write one line from the poem that you think tells the theme the poem.

5. What kinds of patterns are there in the poem? Does the poem rhyme? Does it have a particular rhythm or beat? Does it have a visual pattern when you look at it?

6. How does the poet use language? Is it elevated or fancier language? Is it more vernacular, colloquial, or casual? Does the poet use a particular dialect or accent?

7. What do you think is the most important line of the poem? Why do you think so?

8. What images does the poet use to make his or her point?

9. What is the tone (mood) of the poem at the beginning, at the end, and overall?

10.  How does this poem relate to The Great Gatsby?  Consider the characters (especially Gatsby) and the overall themes of The Great Gatsby.  Which themes does the poem illuminate?

Abraham Lincoln Biography

Handout #1:
Abraham Lincoln Biography

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Born in 1809 in a small log cabin in Kentucky, he grew up helping on his family’s 348 acre farm. His parents were of low social standing and had little education. Still, Lincoln learned to read and write, and ultimately became a lawyer, passing the bar exam in 1837.

 Lincoln married Mary Todd in 1842. They had four sons, but three died at a young age. In 1846, Lincoln was elected to U.S. Congress, and moved to Washington to serve out his term, where he spoke out against the Mexican War and unsuccessfully attempted to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia.

A combination of luck, manipulation, and talent won Lincoln the Republican nomination, and he was elected president in 1860. There were four major candidates running for president, and despite the fact that he won less than 40% of the popular vote, Lincoln was elected president. Because some states believed that Lincoln would eventually abolish slavery, which would have a negative impact on farm production, several southern states began to consider the prospect of secession —breaking away from the rest of the country.

An initial wave of secession led by South Carolina brought about the establishment of the “Confederate States of America,” a self-declared independent nation apart from the United States of America. When Confederate forces from the South opened fire on the Union soldiers from the North at Fort Sumter, the Civil War3 began. After Lincoln called for a sizeable militia to quash the rebellion, several more states, led by Virginia, also seceded.

Although he was heavily criticized by both the Confederate and Union supporters during his first term, Lincoln was able to gather enough votes to win re-election for a second term in 1864. As the war drew to a close, Lincoln made preparations to unify the nation once again. Less than one week after the Confederate Army surrendered, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending a Washington theater.

Today, many view Lincoln’s most significant action as president to be his Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, which paved the way for the Thirteenth Amendment and the abolishment of slavery in the United States. He is also remembered for his gifted way with words, giving such memorable speeches as the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural.

Totem Pole Assignment

Totem Poles

Color Meanings

Early American Literature

"The World on the Turtle's Back"
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Questions Chapter 6

1. In the first few pages of this chapter, we learn about Gatsby’s background. When did James Gatz change his name to Jay Gatsby? Why did he leave college after just two weeks?
2. Nick says, “So he [Gatsby] invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception, he was faithful to the end.” For James Gatz, what does he expect the future Jay Gatsby’s life will be like? Specifically, at night, what sets James’ heart “in a constant, turbulent” riot?
3. To young Gatz, what does Dan Cody’s yacht represent?
4. Why does Gatsby not get the $25,000 left to him in
The Great Gatsby, Ch. 6Cody’s will? What lesson did young Gatsby likely learn from this incident?
5. After crossing paths with Gatsby, Tom says, “I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me.” What’s interesting (and hypocritical) about this line?
6. What is Daisy’s opinion of Gatsby’s party?
7. While the reader can have easily predicted Daisy and Tom’s reactions to his party, Gatsby cannot. Why not?
8. What is Nick’s view of repeating the past, and what is Gatsby’s opinion? Why is Gatsby’s opinion unrealistic?

The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway rents a summer house in Long Island where he befriends his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire who hides an extravagant and decadent lifestyle.

Chapter 1

The novel opens with a number of general, rather abstract comments from the narrator- Nick Carraway- including some about “reserving judgments”, although he goes on to praise Gatsby for his “extraordinary gift for hope.”

Like many of the characters, Nick has come to New York from the Midwest, following, like Gatsby, his experiences in World War 1. He finds himself renting a house in a part of Long Island, known in the novel as West Egg. Next door, on a much grander scale, is Gatsby’s mansion. One summer evening, Nick drives to see his cousin, Daisy who is now married to the “enormously wealthy” Tom Buchanan, and with a three-year-old child. Also present is Jordan Baker, who is the first person to mention the name, Gatsby. This name is clearly significant for Daisy.

Phone calls interrupt Tom’s rants about racial purity, and Jordan tells Nick that Tom has “some woman” in New York. On his return, Nick sees the figure of Gatsby in the neighboring garden.

Chapter 2

Nick describes the “valley of ashes”, a desolate area between West Egg and New York. Overlooking this strange place is a huge advertisement showing the eyes of Dr. T. J.Eckleburg. While passing through on a train Nick is introduced by Tom to his “girl”, Myrtle Wilson, who lives with her husband George - “a blond, spiritless man” – running a garage. They take Myrtle with them to New York, her husband thinking she is going to see her sister. Myrtle gets Tom to buy her a dog en route.

A party develops at the apartment, involving Myrtle’s sister, Catherine, and their neighbors, the McKees. Nick gets drunk and hears rumors about Gatsby from Myrtle’s sister. Catherine is convinced that Tom and Myrtle will marry. Myrtle tells the story of how she met Tom. As the evening progresses, Myrtle mocks Tom by repeating Daisy’s name, until Tom hits her, breaking her nose.

Chapter 3

There is another party, but on a much grander scale – at Gatsby’s house. No expense is spared and Nick is one of the few guests actually invited. Nick meets Jordan again and hears more rumors about Gatsby, who he has been trying to find. In the library, they find a man with “owl-eyed spectacles”, who tells them that the books are real, but the pages are uncut, meaning they’ve never been read!

Discussing the war “with a man of about my age” Nick is amazed to discover that this is Gatsby! He muses amidst all the conflicting rumors about their host that “young men didn’t...drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.” People get drunker and the party gets wilder. Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone. He also receives several phone calls. There is a car crash involving Owl-Eyes, and Nick is aware of a “sudden emptiness” surrounding their host as he waves goodbye.

Nick talks of his liking for New York – “the racy, adventurous feel of it.” His relationship with Jordan Baker develops and he recalls that she was accused of cheating in a golf tournament.

Chapter 4

Nick lists the various families who attend Gatsby’s parties that summer. Gatsby takes Nick for a ride in his car, giving an account of his life which sometimes seems deliberately misleading (e.g. San Francisco is in the Midwest), but at other times has the ring of truth- like when he shows Nick a medal for war service from Montenegro, and a photograph from Oxford.

As they enter New York Nick comments: “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty of the world.”

Gatsby introduces Nick to Meyer Wolfshiem, a gangster who has cufflinks made from human molars, and who, Gatsby tells him, “fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.” For his part, Nick introduces Gatsby to Tom Buchanan.

Jordan Baker tells Nick about the romance between Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, dating back to when Gatsby was in the army in 1917. It would seem that her family intervened and Daisy married Tom Buchanan soon after the end of the war. He gave her a string of pearls “valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” even then, Tom was involved with other women. Only when Nick mentioned his neighbor Gatsby, had both Daisy and Jordan realized it was the same man. Jordan tells Nick, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.” And Gatsby wants Nick to invite Daisy to his house so that Gatsby can meet her again. The chapter ends with another romance blossoming-that of Nick and Jordon.

Chapter 5

Returning home Nick meets Gatsby and tells him he’s inviting Daisy over the following day. Gatsby tries to give Nick some financial tips but Nick declines the offer. Gatsby, clearly very nervous, turns up as arranged, soon after the astonished Daisy. After the meeting, Nick observes of Gatsby: “He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him.”

Gatsby takes Daisy and Nick on a tour of his house, now largely empty except for Klipspringer the “border.” Gatsby flings a pile of his beautiful shirts into the air, bringing Daisy to tears.

Klipspringer plays a song for them in which “the rich get richer and the poor get – children.” Nick wonders at “the colossal vitality of [Gatsby’s] illusion.”

Chapter 6

We learn the true story of James Gatz, who has re-invented himself as Jay Gatsby. Taken up “in a vague personal capacity” by the extremely wealthy businessman, Dan Cody, Gatsby is swindled out of inheritance but has acquired “a singularly appropriate education.”

Some weeks later, when Nick is at Gatsby’s house, Tom Buchanan turns up with some friends. Learning that Gatsby knows his wife, Tom goes with Daisy to Gatsby’s next party. Tom is not impressed by the guests, who include “a celebrity of the movies.” He asks: “Who is this Gatsby anyhow? Some big bootlegger?”

Gatsby is aware that Daisy has not enjoyed the party. “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’” When Nick points out that you can’t repeat the past, Gatsby famously replies: “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”

Chapter 7

Daisy’s lack of enthusiasm for the guests of Gatsby’s parties causes him to abandon the parties and replace his staff with “some people Wolfshiem wanted to do something for.” We are aware that summer is approaching its end.

Daisy, Nick, and Jordan are invited for lunch at the Buchanans. In “broiling” heat, the tension builds. Tom becomes aware that his wife has told Gatsby that she loves him. They drive into town – Jordan, Tom, and Nick in Gatsby’s car; Gatsby and Daisy in Tom’s. Tom now knows that the other two know of Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, and he tells them he’s been investigating Gatsby’s background. Tom stops for petrol at Wilson’s garage. Wilson is sick. He admires Gatsby’s yellow car. He has discovered that Myrtle has been unfaithful but doesn’t know Tom is her lover, and Wilson says he will make his wife accompany him out west. Nick notices Myrtle looking “with jealous terror” at Jordan, who she takes to be Tom’s wife.

Tom feels both his wife and his mistress slipping from his control. They take a suite at the Plaza hotel. Tom interrogates Gatsby about his past. He wryly remarks, “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Mr. Nowhere make love to your wife.” Gatsby retorts that Daisy loves him and has never loved Tom. When Tom mentions certain intimate moments known only to his wife and himself, Daisy wilts, sobbing: “I did love him once – but I loved you too.” Nick observes, “the words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.” Tom insults Gatsby, calling him a “common swindler”- he knows about the association with Wolfshiem. Gatsby becomes aware that “only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away.” Tom is so confident he has defeated Gatsby that he sends the two of them off in Gatsby’s car.

Nick remembers it is his 30th birthday – “the promise of a decade of loneliness.” They drive “toward death in the cooling twilight.”

The death of Myrtle is reported mainly through the words of Michaelis, a witness who runs a cafe near the Wilsons’ garage. Wilson tells him that he has locked his wife away until they can move from the area. Seeing Gatsby’s car, and thinking Tom are driving as before, Myrtle rushes out and is knocked down, “her life violently extinguished.” Nick, Jordan, and Tom arrive soon after, traveling in Tom’s car. Tom is anxious to confirm to Wilson that the car he was driving earlier, “that yellow car”, didn’t belong to him. He is sure that Gatsby is responsible for the hit-and-run.

Disgusted with the whole business, Nick leaves the Buchanan house and meets Gatsby hiding nearby. From what Gatsby tells him he realizes that it was Daisy who was driving the car. Gatsby is determined to wait to keep Daisy from harm, but when Nick looks through the window he sees Tom and Daisy talking quietly, as if “they were conspiring together.” Nick leaves Gatsby “watching over nothing.

Chapter 8

Nick meets Gatsby at his house, now dusty and empty. He tells Gatsby that he should go away because his car is bound to be traced. But Gatsby refuses. This is when he tells Nick the story of his youth, “told it to me because ‘Jay Gatsby’ had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice.” He also tells Nick about when he first met Daisy, finding “he had committed himself to the finding of a grail.” But when he was away at war, Daisy had married Tom Buchanan. But he still thinks she never really loved Tom.

There is now “an autumn flavor in the air.” Nick and Gatsby part for the last time. Nick calls to him: “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

Nick reconstructs what happens. Wilson has found the dog-leash from Tom’s present to his wife. He disappears, having found out who owned the yellow car, thinking it was Gatsby who killed Myrtle. He shoots Gatsby who is swimming in his pool and then turns the gun on himself.

Chapter 9

Nick takes upon himself the responsibility of arranging Gatsby’s funeral. He finds that Tom and Daisy have gone away. Gatsby’s father arrives. But Nick fails to find anyone else who will come to the funeral.

Gatsby’s father shows Nick his son’s youthful “schedule”. He is proud of his son’s achievements. Apart from Mr. Gatz and Nick, the only other person who turns up at the funeral is “Owl-Eyes”, who exclaims, “Why my God! They used to go there by the hundreds.”

Nick decides to move back west. He splits with Jordan, discovering she is engaged to someone else. He meets Tom Buchanan in the street, confirming that it was he who told Wilson about Gatsby. Tom still claims that it was Gatsby who ran over Myrtle “like you’d run over a dog.” Nick reluctantly shakes his hand, reflecting how Tom and Daisy “smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money.”

The novel ends with Nick reflecting on the arrival of the first Dutch settlers in the New World, “the last and greatest of all human dreams.”

ACT Comma Practice

ACT Comma Rule Review and Worksheet

Name_____________________________________

Comma Rules Covered on the ACT

Misplaced, misused, and missing commas are the most frequent punctuation offenders on the English Test. These are the rules that are tested:

1.  Commas separate independent clauses joined by a conjunction (FANBOYS)

Example:  Henry could tie the shoe himself, or he could ask Amanda to tie his shoe.

2.  Commas separate items in a series. 

Example:  The hungry girl devoured the chicken, two pound of pasta, and a chocolate cake. 

Reminder:  If the word and joins each and every item, NO commas are needed.

3.  Commas separate multiple adjectives that modify a noun.

  Never put a comma between the last adjective and the noun that it modifies.

Example:  The loud, angry protesters mobbed the building.

4.  Commas are used to set off dependent clauses from main clauses in a sentence and phrases from a sentence, especially introductory clauses. 

Example:  After preparing an elaborate meal for herself, Anne was too tired to eat. 

Remember:  If the clause comes at the end of a sentence, a comma may not be needed.

Anne was too tired to eat after preparing an elaborate meal for herself.

Scared of monsters, Timmy always checked under the bed before he fell asleep.

5.  Commas set off nonessential phrases and clauses. 

Example:  Everyone voted Carrie, who is the most popular girl in our class, prom queen.

The decrepit street sign, which had stood in our town since 1799, finally fell down.

6.  Conjunctive adverbs like however, consequently, therefore, etc. are set off with commas if they do not join two major sentences together.

Example: 

He forgot, however, that he was to pick up his child from the birthday party.

DO NOT put commas with restrictive clauses.

Example:  The girl who is sick missed three days of school.

The dog that ate the rotten steak fell down and died.

6.  Use commas to set off appositives in a sentence. 

The dog, a Yorkshire terrier, barked at all the neighbors.

Marty, the boy in the green shirt, made the only A in the class.

Practice ACT Questions Using Comma Rules

Bell Ringers Tuesday, November 19 2019

1.  The two “little brothers” of Ligia’s host family, who had volunteered to move, to those bedrooms for a year, had to be moved upstairs to the room Ligia was using.

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  volunteered to move to those bedrooms for a year

C.  volunteered to move to those bedrooms for a year,

D.  volunteered, to move to those bedrooms for a year,

2.  Down the street from the college, I attend, the Save-U Laundromat is always open, and someone is always there.

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  college, I attend

C.  college I attend,

D.  college I attend

3.  You have to admire the honesty of a company whose slogan is “Just About the Best.”  Glory Foods’ president, and founder Bill Williams, explains the unusual slogan by admitting that while he knows that his foods can’t be beat the taste of real home cooking, they do come very close.

A.  No CHANGE

B.  president, and founder Bill Williams

C.  president and founder Bill Williams

D.  president and founder, Bill Williams,

4.  Then again, you can sometimes get lucky, and a ball you thought was lost, will inexplicably bounce back into play.

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  lost will

C.  lost, will,

D.  lost will,

5.  Suddenly, without warning, each of the letters, in front of you tumbles to the bottom of the screen.

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  letters in front of you tumbles,

C.  letters in front of you, tumbles

D.  letters in front of you tumbles

Bell Ringers Wednesday, November 20, 2019

1.  Not all viruses however, straighten themselves out.

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  viruses; however,

C.  viruses, however

D.  viruses, however,

2.  Grandpa could punch in the time, and the channel of his favorite daily news program, and the TV would turn on that program at the proper time. 

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  time and, the channel,

C.  time and the channel

D.  time and the channel,

3.  The music and the instrument were adopted by musicians in that region, who began to use the accordion, in their own dance music, huapangos and rancheras. 

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  accordion in their own dance music,

C.  accordion, in their own dance music

D.  accordion in their own dance music

4.  During the early morning hours of October 28, 1965, engineers stationed 630 feet above the ground made careful measurements for the day’s work. 

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  1965, and engineers

C.  1965.  Engineers

D.  1965; engineers

5.  For years I had seen pictures of other Miami—many of them the ancestors of the people, who walked along with me to the long house that summer evening. 

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  people who, walked along with me

C.  people, who walked along, with me

D.  people who walked along with me

Thursday, November 21, 2019

1.  Before leaving on a hunt, the pack gathers for a “group sing” called chorus howling.  Usually begun by the alpha or, dominant, pair of wolves, the pack is excited in preparation for the hunt partly by chorus howling.

A.  NO CHANGE

B.   alpha, or dominant, pair

C.  alpha or dominant pair,

D.  alpha or, dominant pair

2.  What’s already clear, is that the stereotypical image of the lone wolf howling at the full moon obscures the importance howling has in the social life of these animals. 

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  clear is that,

C.  clear is, that

D.  clear is that

3.  But this apparent chaos is the subject of scientific research.

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  chaos, is the subject

C.  chaos is the subject,

D.  chaos:  is the subject

4.  In February 2001, polar adventurers Liv Arnesen of Norway, and Ann Bancroft of Minnesota became the first women to climb and ski across the continent of Antarctica. 

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  Arnesen, of Norway, and Ann Bancroft,

C.  Arnesen, of Norway and Ann Bancroft,

D.  Arnesen of Norway and Ann Bancroft

5.  Hiking unassisted up the 10,000-foot-high Sygyn Glacier, and each woman pulled a sled that weighed more than 260 pounds.

A.  NO CHANGE

B.  when

C.  while

D.  Delete the underlined portion