Past tense

This is a quotation taken from Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘’The Voyage’’. The story is about a young girl called Fenella, after the death of her mother she went with her grandmother to move in her Grandparent’s house in Picton, which is inspired from Mansfield’s personal life when she had to move out from her home in Wellington, New Zealand to London, England. Mansfield uses imageries, metaphors, and the setting to convey the two main ideas of darkness and light and the transformation of…

Parallel structure helped me grow as a writer a lot. First of all, parallel structure is when elements follow a consistent pattern, which makes it fluent and makes sense. As a speaker I recognized that I didn’t use parallel structure I said it completely wrong! In class when we started learning about it I learned a lot from it. For some, all words must be adjectives or verbs to be called parallel structure. Ex: My mom cooks, cleans, and jogs is an example of parallel structure.…

In Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif,” Twyla Benson retells the story of her time in St. Bonaventure shelter and encounters with Roberta Frisk, but they remember different things each time they reminisce on the past. Twyla finds herself evaluating what really happened in her life, shifting ideas based on her own memories and what Roberta thinks. Her thoughts are ultimately distorted, raising questions on what is actually true. Twyla, as the narrator, tells the story with her own bias, making it…

this include: the great warped chest of the hunchback, his hump on his shoulders, and the hunchback's thin and crooked legs. 12c) The change in verb tenses throughout the excerpt holds a very deep meaning because it marks a very important change. This is the establishment of the café. The start of the excerpt first begins with the use of past tense or the…

defend himself, which is why he always wins at the game of marbles. He is really good at aiming and shooting marbles because of the war he had taken part in. While Rami tells the narrator this story, the narrator is afraid of Rami, due to his violent past experiences. Osman describes the narrator saying, “I didn’t look. I remained silent, afraid, my face towards a wall, the cushion between us.” (Osman 153). Rami puts the bullet in the narrator’s lap to ensure that he still cares about the…

breathe; the wind knocked out of me” the use of the as the first person narrative allows a more powerful way to convey a closer more personal relationship with the reader and the writer which makes the story more entertaining. I switch between past and present tense.…

Carmen is in second-grade student, she is currently having challenges reading and is performing at a kindergarten reading level. When starting the assessment with Carmen, based on previous assessments, I knew her reading level was below second-grade reading level. Her reading over assessment has seen improvement and she is able to apply skills she has learned. Carmen was able to read Walk in the Fall and The First Snow. She demonstrated improvement in her reading based on the reading techniques…

“The Wound-Dresser,” by Walt Whitman, is a gruesome poem that brings his readers face to face with the cruel realities of war. The wound-dresser is about the nurse talking about the fatally injured victims of Civil War and how he had taken care of them. Whitman himself was a nurse in the battle field. This poem allows the readers to see what he saw, and feel what he felt. His main theme that I found is that he used literary techniques to emphasis his writing, showed that nurses also could be…

of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking verbs (past, present, and future. I can use the TEKS to help the students understand about past, future, present tense when referring to where they went for the trip. Before going to the trip, I can focus on helping first graders understand about past, present, and future. We can do interactive activities where we learn to identify how to properly use each of the verb tenses. Furthermost, after coming back from their trip I can ask the…

more about how you felt when your mom left and how important it is to you that your dad was able to take care of you without help. You have dialogue in the first paragraph and it does a great job at enhancing the essay. 7. The story is mostly in past tense with exception to the concluding paragraph. The events are placed in the correct order and the correct paragraphs. I do not see any reason to relocate any sentences. I see a sufficient number of transitional phrases. 8. Most of the sentences…