English II (on-level): Embedding Quotes in "Man in the Water"

As we discussed in class today, many of you had difficulty supporting your answers (assertions) with text evidence on last Thursday's test. In class we discussed embedding quoted evidence in your own sentences to support your argument. Please copy the following response that we generated in class (word for word, letter for letter, punctuation mark for punctuation mark).

One difficulty with the rescue was the extreme cold. The man in the water “had to know…no matter how gradual the effect of the cold,” eventually it would kill him. Another difficulty was that the helicopter couldn’t pick up everyone at once. “Every time they lowered a lifeline and floatation ring to [the passengers in the water, the man in the water] passed it on” so someone else could be saved.

English II (on-level): "Man in the Water" Questions 9 + 10

Refer to the article "The Man in the Water" online at Time Magazine's website when answering the following questions.

9. Rosenblatt states that "we do not even really believe that the man in the water lost his fight [against nature]." Do you agree or disagree with what Rosenblatt says? Support your answer with evidence from the text.


10. Are most people able of acting in a heroic way like the man in the water? Support your assertion with evidence from the text as well as your personal experiences with people behaving sacrificially.

English II (on-level) "Man in the Water" Vocab and Meaningful Sentences

Please create meaningful sentences for each of the vocabulary words in the presentation, above. On slides that have two words, please pick only one of the two; be sure to use it correctly in your meaningful sentence.

Remember:

• a meaningful sentence is made up of two independent sentences combined with a semicolon (;)


• the first sentence includes a vocabulary word


• the second sentence contains the definition of that vocabulary word


• the first word of the second sentence is not capitalized


• you should underline the vocabulary word and its definition

For instance, if the vocabulary word was:

hero (n.): someone brave and selfless.

a meaningful sentence would be:

Mac the mechanic is my hero; he rushed into the five-car pile-up to rescue my kitten even though he could have been killed.

Due Date: Friday, Oct. 7