English II Daily Oral Language
1. a. the pilot had no alternative, stowaways must face judgment
b. did the nasa pilot exaust everyone of his options
2. a. barton’s ship lurched, slowed and suddenly accelerated agin
b. in 1954, when the short story The Cold Equations were written, no people had yet went into outer space
3. a. him and me enjoy sience fiction because its exiting and imaginative
b. andy and me taked a trip to the Mojave Dessert
4. a. next Monday us students will read our drafts to one and other
b. not anybody wanted to read a essay a loud
5. a strongly, detailed, precise, setting effects the reader’s emotions
b. Boys and Girls is a short story that is setted in tough brutally hard rance country in Canada
6. a. floras the horses name Keisha sayed but whats the protagonists name
b. flora runned out the gate but the men catched her anyways
7. a. alice has never wrote no novels and don’t think she never will
b. that is the most coldest milk of the world
8. a. alice walker who was the most young of 8 children is born in Eatonton Georgia
b. walker’s novel The Color Purple was winning the pulitzer prize in fiction in 1983
9. a. where’s you’re sister at Larry
b. unfortunately I have me a sister whose a lot like Dee
10. a, john Steinbeck almost didn’t except the nobel prize, he was afraid that he wouldn’t wright any more
b. during the great depression of the 1930s many families in the Midwest losed their farms
11. a. because the daughter didn’t think of herself as a prodigy her mother gets angry with her.
b. the daughter thought her mother was trying to make her something she wasn’t her mother just thinks the child is being disobedient
12. a. ray bradburys futuristic character in the short story the pedestrian is dismayed by his societies indifference
b. everybody seems to be more interested in wataching telavison then in exploring their environment
13. a. I cant believe it the banker said how can you think money is more important than time
b. id be happy replied the lawyer to give up time for money
14. a. grandma tell us that story again the children clamored
b. tell us the story about the boy with no last name who you dance with that night they pleaded
15. a. to the Priest it was sacrilegious to participate in the mans burial ceremony
b. because the ceremony was not Christian the priest felt he cant be a part of it
16. a. in the autobiographical excerpt by Judith Ortiz cofer we learn that as a teenager she wasn’t always happy diane pointed out
b. yes but she learns alot from her experiences david added
17. a. lily said that she would have been scarred if she had had to experience a night in wartime Vietnam as private paul berlin did
b. I don’t think shed be as scared as she thinks manuel replied you build up defences really fast in those kind of situations
18. a. gabriel garcia marquez uses irony to illustrate peoples foolishness in his story a very old man with enormous wings
b. magic realism is characterized by realistic details of everyday life and there are impossible events that happen
19. a. gabriel Garcia marquez like many other south American writers uses a technique called magic realism.
b. magic realism is characterized by realistic details of everyday life and there are impossible events that happen
20. a. wethertons tempting fate when he kept trying to get more gold
b. even if I be really poor I wouldnever risk my life for money
21. a. I hope im not like the man in the story by anne tyler when I get older joel said
b. why not I asked its silly to hide your weakness from others he replied
22. a. what wuld the short story the pit and the pendulum be like if it was wrote from the point of view of the swinging pendulum
b, the story would certainly be a different tone it might then be in the style of magic realism
23. a. the symbols Edgar Allan poe uses in this story were very frightening maria said
b. I disagree Jolene asserted poes symbols are clichés I find them bland
24. a. joanne asked if anybody in her group understanded the poem about Senora X
b. Daniel replied that it was all about being proud to learning something new
25. a. I really admire jerrys tenacity in the short story ghrough the tunnel
b. I could never have forced myself to stay under water hat long I think my heart would of exploded
26. a. writing a autobiographyis a good way finding out who you are.
b. you can delve into youre passed and discover what made you who you are today
27. a. gary sotos experiences as a wressler led him to ask big questions about life
b. he wondered who he was why he was here and what life was all about
28. a. if I were soto id of said to my friend I don’t know what life is all about
b. my friend would reply if I were in charge id make it more fun
29. a. when Malcolm x was young he changed his hairstyle hair straightening was popular then
b. later he was mad at hisself for trying to look like a white person
30. a. Malcolm x had an interesting problem he wanted as many of us do to do what was fashionable
b. but for fashion he hurt himself and hurt his sence of pride and at least that’s how he felt about it later
31. a. I don’t understand laura said why the U.S. government had rationing during world war II
b. I know why medjool answered the government thought that rationing would guarantee the nations supplies of vital maerials
32. a. the wakatsuki family had to move several times during the war im surprised jeanned was able to be so positive marry wrote
b. im sure the adults were way less likely to be positive for them it was more of a trial than an adventure mary continued
33. a. john asked do you think there are people who would feel gooder with a different name
b. it depends Jolene answers some people are fond of there own names and other people would probly like new ones
34. a. going to a school where teachers call you by a different name without asking permission
b. its not fair that the teachers felt they could rename their students
35. a. whenever I hear that music that reminds me of the time we read about the titanic
b. many people who heard that music did not survive I feel sad when I listen to it
36. a. if the man in the communications room on the other ship wouldn’t of gone to sleep all those people might of survived
b. it was such a tragedy it could have been avoided
37. a. if i had been that reporter claimed jose id have found out the whole story
b. the whole truth is often hard to discover Deirdre replied
38. a. ive been doing some research about whales suzette told her friends
b. the sperm whales brain size is greater than any creatures she said
39. a. my mothers advice for me diane said has always been that life is hard but definitely worth it
b. Giuseppe answered I think that might be my advice to a child
40. a. that poem was written by the most compelling poet I ever read
b. when he puts words together it does so in a sublime way
41. a. Robert frost one of the greatest American poet of the 20th century
b. his poetry seems very simple and straightforward there are often deeper meanings in his poems
42. a. when the poet says that love should be like language without grammar love shouldn’t have any rules
b. he thinks that the feeling of love shouldn’t have no boundaries
43. a. carole said I cant rember where the accent is in an iamb
b. that’s easy dave said just say i am what i am
44. a. because the sonnet was the preferred poetic form in shakespeares day
b. a Shakespearean sonnet consist of 14 lines of iambic pentameter.
45. a. i read that Shakespeare writes in iambic pentameter because it suited the English language best martin said
b. it cant no have been easy to write within such strict rules jean added