Self Check 1.5 ENGL-055-200: Twelfth-Grade English, Part 1 (Online) / Lesson 1: Life as a Journey All changes saved 1. Complete the matching exercise below. 1. Score of 3 2. Conventions/Usage 3. Score of 2 4. Score of 1 5. Score of 5 6. Organization 7. Word Choice 8. Voice 9. Ideas and Content 10. Score of 4 11. Sentence Fluency a. the rhythm and cadence of the piece b. shows promise but the writer is not in control yet c. just a beginning point with great need for revision d. the technical aspects of writing e. a fairly controlled performance f. a very strong and controlled performance g. the structure or skeleton of the piece h. the heart of the message i. a balance between strengths and need for revision j. correct, accurate, precise language k. the individual fingerprints on the page

The vertical height of a soccer ball can be represented by the following function, where h(x) represents the height, in feet, x seconds after the soccer ball is kicked. rewrite the function in the form that reveals the times at which the soccer ball is on the ground.

Alittle later than his thisbe had, and he could see what surely were the tracks of a wild beast left clearly on deep dust. his face grew ashen. and when he had found the bloodstained shawl, he cried: "now this same night will see two lovers lose their lives: she was the one more worthy of long life: it's i who bear the guilt for this. which statement best describes how the order of events creates tension?

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion