Humanities Homework Help

Instructions

Directions:

1. Once you start this exam, you will find a writing prompt for an essay about language loss. You have already seen this prompt before.
2. First type the rewrite of your introduction paragraph from Writing Exam 2A based on my comments.
3. Write a 10-15 sentence body paragraph about the first controlling idea in your thesis statement from Writing Exam 2A.
4. Although most of your writing should be your ideas, you should also use the ideas from the article “The Future of English,” the video “Enduring Voices,” and the article “Vanishing Voices,” but you cannot copy sentences. You must use your own words if you use ideas from the textbook. 85% of your paragraph should be your ideas, 15% of the paragraph can be information from the video.
5. DO NOT USE ANY INFORMATION FROM THE INTERNET OR OTHER ARTICLES.
6. Make sure you check your grammar and vocabulary carefully before you submit your writing.

In your introduction paragraph, please include the following:

Grammar

• at least one compound sentence
• at least one complex sentence
• a passive voice verb form

Vocabulary (Use at least three words from the list below. You can use any word form. Please underline them in your body paragraph)

• acquire
• lead to
• competence
• anticipate
• native
• expand
• dominate
• abandon
• extinction
• linguistic
• neglect
• diversity
• roughly
• critically
• political
• highly
• rapidly
• rate
• perspective
• express
• die out

ENGLISH WRITING GUIDE

• simple passive voice
• the vocabulary exercises from “The Future of English” and “Vanshing Voices”
• the readings “The Future of English” and “Vanshing Voices” (You will be required to use information from the readings in your writing)
• thesis statement writing
• introduction paragraph writing
• the “Enduring Voices” video
• essay body paragraph writing
• cause and effect language patterns