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1. In which sentence does column have the same meaning as it does in the sentence above A The column of marching soldiers seemed to go on forever B Each corner of the roof was supported by a massive iron column C Most of the students had trouble deciding what to put in the survey s answer column D A column of water jetted up from the center of the fountain and then crashed back down Back N lt a Fe shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Word Analysis Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development Performance Level Basic Question 04 Which of these words connotes the concept of rights A inhabitant B visitor Cc resident D citizen Grade 10 English Language Arts Word Analysis Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development Performance Level Below Basic Question 01 Read the following two selections and think about how they are alike and how they are different Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze No one ever thanked him I d wake and hear the cold splintering breaking When the rooms were warm he d call and slowly would rise and dress fearing the chronic angers of that house Speaking indifferently to him who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well What did
2. LS shoob Photography 36 37 38 39 40 4 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 6l 62 63 64 65 66 My mother knew there would be no shortcuts and headed for the remnants the leftover bundles with yardage enough for a heart shaped pillow a child s dirndl a blouse without darts Along the aisles my fingertips touched the titles satin tulle velvet peach lavender pistachio sherbet colored linings and settled for the plain brown and white composition of polka dots on kettle cloth my mother held up in triumph She was determined that should sew as if she knew what she herself was missing a moment when she could have come up for air the children asleep the dishes drying on the rack and turned on the lamp and pulled back the curtain of sleep To inhabit the night the night as a black cloth white paper a sheet of music in which she might find herself singing On Saturdays at Mrs Umemoto s sewing school when took my place beside the other girls bent my head and went to work my foot keeping time on the pedal it was to learn the charitable oblivion of hand and mind as one a refuge such music affords the maker the pleasure of notes in perfectly measured time The Grammar of Silk is from School Figures by Cathy Song 1994 Reprinted by permission of the Uni versity of Pittsburgh Press Compted ard oe LS sh
3. aE fR shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Proficient Question 02 Kevin s teacher asked her students to write about someone who overcame obstacles and became a success Below is Kevin s rough draft which may contain errors Julia Morgan Distinguished Architect 1 Julia Morgan California s first woman architect and the designer of Hearst Castle was a true pioneer During her long distinguished career she designed many beautiful homes schools hospitals and community centers Though Morgan faced many chal lenges on her way to becoming an architect she overcame them all 2 Morgan hoped to study architecture in college but the University of California at Berkeley which she began attending at the age of 18 did not have an architecture school Morgan majored in civil engineering instead but she held on to her dream of designing buildings After she graduated friends urged her to apply to the L Ecole des Beaux Arts a famous architecture school in Paris 3 The 22 year old Morgan sailed for Paris full of hope and excitement This must have made it all the more crushing when school authorities told Morgan that women were not allowed to take the entrance examinations Morgan refused to give up how ever She began to study French to prepare for the exam In 1897 the school finally decided to let women take the entrance exams and Morgan took the exam for the firs
4. Solving the Organizati on Puzzle _ Collector s Catalog is the hottest new database 3 a B L see software program fo y oe wae classifying and managing SPR i _ C gt compact disc collections a Imagine No more digging through E a boxes or stacks of CDs to find what you Sa a re entire collection is just a mouse click away Collector s j want With Coffecitor s Catafug your __ L r cataloging m a Catalan Cataiog It s no puzzle why Collector s Catalog 39 is America s 1 choice Document B or 3 Use the TAB key to move from one field to the next until you have entered all the requested information 4 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu The entry is automatically saved and the title of the CD will appear on the left side of the screen under ALL RECORDS 5 Repeat the procedure to enter additional CDs After you have made all of your entries simply hit EXIT All information you entered is saved Note All fields in the record except comments are required This means they can NOT be left blank you must enter information in each box TDA Mi Creating a New Data Record Collector s Catalog CD Organizer 1 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu File See 2 Type the title of the CD in the box below the word All Recorde TITLE A Included with your User s Manual is a booklet of colored and numbered adhesive stickers Remove
5. Brown Jamar What s New in Software Software Inside News 1 January 2000 sec B 4 Compact Discs The Universal Encyclopedia of Technology 1998 ed Hauser Melanie Compact Disc Packaging Analysis Music Plus Digest 15 December 2000 32 Larkin Esther Not Compact Enough Solving the Music Storage Question London Choice Publications 1998 Valez Hector Working Teens as Consumers Los Angeles Victory Press 1996 Document A on Back Continue ce i SJ shoob Photography Solving the Organizati on Puzzle _ Collector s Catalog is the hottest new database 3 a B L see software program fo y oe wae classifying and managing SPR i _ C gt compact disc collections a Imagine No more digging through E a boxes or stacks of CDs to find what you Sa a re entire collection is just a mouse click away Collector s j want With Coffecitor s Catafug your __ L r cataloging m a Catalan Cataiog It s no puzzle why Collector s Catalog 39 is America s 1 choice Document B or 3 Use the TAB key to move from one field to the next until you have entered all the requested information 4 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu The entry is automatically saved and the title of the CD will appear on the left side of the screen under ALL RECORDS 5 Repeat the procedure to enter additional CDs After you have made all of
6. IO U The soeaker describes the sewing group as a sanctuary in stanza 3 and the sewing school as a refuge in the last stanza In stanza 2 the speaker uses such words as tough awkward and deciphered to illustrate the difficulty involved in sewing The soeaker tells about an experience that happened when she was young rather than describing a more recent experience The speaker makes references to music to show that she would have rather taken music lessons than learned to sew lt Back n lt a Fe shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Proficient Question 08 Read the following two selections and think about how they are alike and how they are different Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made 5 banked fires blaze No one ever thanked him I d wake and hear the cold splintering breaking When the rooms were warm he d call and slowly would rise and dress fearing the chronic angers of that house 10 Speaking indifferently to him who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well What did know what did know of love s austere and lonely offices Those Winter Sundays Copyright 1966 by Robert Hayden from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden by Robert Ha
7. a Imagine No more digging through E a boxes or stacks of CDs to find what you Sa a re entire collection is just a mouse click away Collector s j want With Coffecitor s Catafug your __ L r cataloging m a Catalan Cataiog It s no puzzle why Collector s Catalog 39 is America s 1 choice Document B or 3 Use the TAB key to move from one field to the next until you have entered all the requested information 4 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu The entry is automatically saved and the title of the CD will appear on the left side of the screen under ALL RECORDS 5 Repeat the procedure to enter additional CDs After you have made all of your entries simply hit EXIT All information you entered is saved Note All fields in the record except comments are required This means they can NOT be left blank you must enter information in each box TDA Mi Creating a New Data Record Collector s Catalog CD Organizer 1 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu File See 2 Type the title of the CD in the box below the word All Recorde TITLE A Included with your User s Manual is a booklet of colored and numbered adhesive stickers Remove the colored sticker that corresponds w ith the color code and number you assign to each CD and stick it on the hinged side of the plastic CD holder i Sy shoob Photography In the bibliography Document
8. Compted and oem LS shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Word Analysis Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development Performance Level Basic Question 03 USING YOUR GOLDEN ARROW MULTIPURPOSE CALCULATOR TO DETERMINE THE DATE AND TIME AT YOUR LOCATION AS WELL AS LOCATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE SETTING THE DATE AND TIME FOR YOUR LOCATION Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate the code that corresponds with the time zone in which you live Select the major city that shares your time zone Press the code that corresponds to that city e g if you live in Washington Oregon California or Nevada all of which are located in the Pacific time zone you would choose Los Angeles and press the corresponding code which is the key 1 Press TIME twice The two digits representing hours will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until the desired hour flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing minutes will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until the desired minute flashes Then release N Press SET The two digits representing seconds will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or V key until 00 flashes Then release Press SET To set the year month and day press DATE three times Then repeat steps 2 through 7 NOTE At this point hours minutes and seconds will change to year month and day DETERMINING DATE AND TIME FOR THE WORLD S 16 TIME ZONES 1 Press ZONE twice
9. dreamed each other s thoughts or are still dreaming them To paraphrase the problem of the Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu may be a woman who has dreamed herself a skunk or a skunk still dreaming that she is a woman 5 Skunks don t mind each other s vile perfume Obviously they find each other more than tolerable And even who have been in the presence of a direct skunk hit wouldn t classify their weapon as mere smell It is more on the order of a reality enhancing experience It s not so pleasant as standing in a grove of old growth ce dars or on a lyrical moonshed plain or watching trout rise to the shadow of your hand on the placid surface of an Alpine lake When the skunk lets go you re surrounded by skunk presence inhabited owned involved with something you can only describe as powerfully there 6 woke at dawn stunned into that sprayed state of being The dog that had ap proached me was rolling in the grass half addled sprayed too My skunk was gone abandoned my sleeping bag and started home Up Eighth Street past the tiny blue and pink houses past my grade school past all the addresses where babysat walked in my own strange wind The streets were wide and empty met no one not a dog not a squir rel not even an early robin Perhaps they had all scattered before me blocks away had gone out to sleep on the football field because was afflicted with a sadness had to dramatize They were nothin
10. ee cee eee 2 Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate the code that corresponds to the time zone for which you desire the date and time Press that code e g press to determine the date and time in Hong Kong The selected date and time will alternately display for 10 seconds and then return automatically to your home date and time cope cry TIME CODE CITY TIME 0 Honolulu 10 ff 8 Caio 2 1 LosAngeles 8 ff 9 Moscow 3 2 Denver 7 3 Chkago amp ff Bangkok 7 4 NewYork 5 f HongKong 8 5 RlodeJanelro 3 ff Tokyo 9 6 london 0 ff Sydney 10 Wellington 12 The TIME column shows the number of hours each city is ahead of or behind London i Le shoob Photography USING THE 100 YEAR CALENDAR You can view the calendar for the years 1950 to 2050 E 2 A MAA Press CAL twice The four digits representing the year will begin to flash Depress and hold down the A or V key until the desired year flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing the month will begin to flash Depress and hold down the A or V key until the desired month flashes Then release Press SET The calendar for the month and year you have selected will display To return to the current clock calendar display press CAL once Read this sentence from the passage The TIME column shows the number of hours each city is ahead of or behind London
11. fA Shoot Photography Read this sentence Mexico however should also be mentioned in the same breath thanks to the following artists Diego Rivera Jos Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros What is the correct punctuation of the underlined part of the sentence artists Diego Rivera artists Diego Rivera artists Diego Rivera artists Diego Rivera IO O gt Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Basic Question 01 Read this sentence In places where the water has evaporated limestone has formed again creating unusual and exotic shapes What is the correct way to write the underlined words formed again creating formed again creating formed again creating Leave as is lO O b gt i Sy shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Basic Question 02 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Communicating with a Giant 1 Elephants are known as one of the most respected and magnificent land animals in the world 2 Living peacefully with other creatures is easy for elephants be cause despite their powerful strength they do not abuse their power and they care fully avoid harming other creatures 3 Elephants live together easily 4 Because they communicate well with each o
12. the pleasure of notes in perfectly measured time The Grammar of Silk is from School Figures by Cathy Song 1994 Reprinted by permission of the Uni versity of Pittsburgh Press Compted ard oe LS shoob Photography In the poems the poets address similar topics by lO O gt providing the reader with historical context focusing on a specific incident from the speakers experiences using figurative language to create a playful mood presenting detailed descriptions of all the characters mentioned in the poems Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Advanced Question 04 Read the following two selections and think about how they are alike and how they are different Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made 5 banked fires blaze No one ever thanked him I d wake and hear the cold splintering breaking When the rooms were warm he d call and slowly would rise and dress fearing the chronic angers of that house 10 Speaking indifferently to him who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well What did know what did know of love s austere and lonely offices Those Winter Sundays Copyright 1966 by Robert Hayden from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden by R
13. 2003 Walt Whitman America s Poet 1 Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island New York Whitman received most of his education outside of the classroom His parents Walter and Louisa Whit man were uneducated but hard working people At the age of eleven he worked in a law office as an office boy where he became interested in reading He was soon reading the works of prominent authors like William Shakespeare and Homer and was well on his way to becoming one of America s most well known and endearing poets 2 By the time Whitman was seventeen years old he had already worked as a printer s apprentice worked as a compositor and a teacher Despite his aversion to teaching he excelled in the profession developing an amicable relationship with his students he even allowed them to address him by his first name He also developed fresh teaching techniques and learning games to help his students with spelling and arithmetic In his early twenties however he gave up teaching to pursue a full time career as a journalist and poet 3 When Walt Whitman first emerged as a poet his arrival onto the American liter ary scene was met with controversy His first collection of poems Leaves of Grass was so unusual that no commercial publisher would print the work In 1855 Whitman published at his own expense the first edition of his collection of twelve poems 4 Whitman s poetic style was uncommon in the sense that he wrote poems in a form
14. Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros 5 In the early part of the twentieth century these three artists began a new art form called Mexican Muralism 6 Rather than create paintings that would be housed in homes or museums and be seen by only a small number of people the muralists used prominent public buildings as their canvases 7 Their murals contained images of important social issues of their time and were painted in mostly neutral colors 8 In the 1920s and 1930s these artists traviled to the United States and painted murals in major cities like Los Angeles and New York 9 In the 1960s and 1970s Mexican Muralism had a rebirth in the southwestern part of the United States 10 This happening was called the Chicano Mural Movement 11 The Chicano Mural Move ment again used public buildings on which to create images 12 Many of these works of art captured and expressed a unique culture and heritage 13 A large number of these striking murals can still be seen in California Texas and Arizona Continue icc i LS shoob Photography Which word from the essay is spelled incorrectly A frequently B prominent C traviled D heritage Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Basic Question 08 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Eurlene Jarzembek English Mr Carter September 4
15. actors alike 16 The actors love for The Globe was so strong that when it burned down in 1613 they pooled their own money to rebuild it making it even better than before with elaborate decoration and detail adorning the stage 17 Even though this version of the Globe Theater did not survive through the century its legacy lives On Continue ieee a LS shoob Photography Which of these is the best way to revise sentence 1 to match the tone of the passage IO O gt When one enters the Globe Theater one is in the greatest theater think that the Globe Theater is one of the most popular theaters ever The Globe Theater is one of the most well known theaters in the world Leave as is LQ Shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Basic Question 08 The following is a rough draft of a student s essay It contains errors The Excitement of Murals 1 The name Los Tres Grandes or The Big Three refers to three artists who start ed the first major modern art movement that began outside of Europe 2 When peo ple think of art they frequently think of European countries like Italy Soain and France 3 They think of Michelangelo Monet and Picasso 4 Mexico however should also be mentioned in the same breath thanks to the following artists Diego Rivera Jos Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros 5 In the early part of the t
16. and unfolding it was a challenge Its caster wheels are not adequate for pushing it more than a few feet Bottom line You can get a good workout from this machine but if you can afford it soend a little more for the FitQuest 2000 Document C FitQuest 2000 5 Year Limited Warranty j lt If your FitQuest 2000 fails structurally during normal usage we will repair or replace it without charge to you Parts cables and labor are included This warranty is not e transferable and does not cover the failure of FitQuest 2000 machines used com mercially or for institutional purposes The warranty excludes failure caused by da unreasonable or abusive use improper assembly following user performed disas sembly or failure to provide reasonable and necessary care and maintenance _ Please consult the User s Manual for maintenance and care instructions FitQuest ee shall not be liable for shipping or packaging charges to or from the factory for ae returned items To obtain service contact the FitQuest Customer Service Depart may MENT at the number provided in the User s Guide Users can also write with ques x tions to FitQuest Inc Customer Service P O Box 1800 Oceanside CA 90000 lt LS shoob Photography FitQuest 30 Day Money Back Guarantee All FitQuest products come with a 30 day money back guarantee less all freight charges Returns should be made in the original box Please include a copy of the original
17. justify the narrator s lack of timeliness illustrate the narrator s desire to learn watch repair emphasize the magnitude of the narrator s ordeal A B C D lt Back n lt a Fe shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Proficient Question 07 Read the following two selections and think about how they are alike and how they are different Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made 5 banked fires blaze No one ever thanked him I d wake and hear the cold splintering breaking When the rooms were warm he d call and slowly would rise and dress fearing the chronic angers of that house 10 Speaking indifferently to him who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well What did know what did know of love s austere and lonely offices Those Winter Sundays Copyright 1966 by Robert Hayden from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden by Robert Hayden edited by Frederick Glaysher Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation i LS shoot Photography CONA OaBKWDN WWWWWNHNNNNNNNNN gt 2 gt O RwWN DO NODAN A A KWH DOD UDOAOAON A aA KRWN O The Grammar of Silk by Cathy Song On Saturdays in the morning
18. know what did know of love s austere and lonely offices Those Winter Sundays Copyright 1966 by Robert Hayden from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden by Robert Hayden edited by Frederick Glaysher Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation Continue ee LS shoob Photography 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 The Grammar of Silk by Cathy Song On Saturdays in the morning my mother sent me to Mrs Umemoto s sewing school It was cool and airy in her basement pleasant a word choose to use years later to describe the long tables where we sat and cut pinned and stitched the Singer s companionable whirr the crisp clever bite of scissors parting like silver fish a river of calico The school was in walking distance to Kaimuki Dry Goods where my mother purchased my supplies small cards of buttons zippers and rickrack packaged like licorice lifesaver rolls of thread in fifty yard lengths spun from spools tough as tackle Seamstresses waited at the counters like librarians to be consulted Pens and scissors dangled like awkward pendants across flat chests a scarf of measuring tape flung across a shoulder timeas a pincushion bristled at the wrist They deciphered a dress s blueprints with an architect s keen eye This evidently was a sanctuary a place where women co
19. ple think of art they frequently think of European countries like Italy Spain and France 3 They think of Michelangelo Monet and Picasso 4 Mexico however should also be mentioned in the same breath thanks to the following artists Diego Rivera Jos Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros 5 In the early part of the twentieth century these three artists began a new art form called Mexican Muralism 6 Rather than create paintings that would be housed in homes or museums and be seen by only a small number of people the muralists used prominent public buildings as their canvases 7 Their murals contained images of important social issues of their time and were painted in mostly neutral colors 8 In the 1920s and 1930s these artists traviled to the United States and painted murals in major cities like Los Angeles and New York 9 In the 1960s and 1970s Mexican Muralism had a rebirth in the southwestern part of the United States 10 This happening was called the Chicano Mural Movement 11 The Chicano Mural Move ment again used public buildings on which to create images 12 Many of these works of art captured and expressed a unique culture and heritage 13 A large number of these striking murals can still be seen in California Texas and Arizona What would be the best source for more information about the Chicano Mural Movement A a magazine article called Historic Art in New York City B an essay about the
20. shoon Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Word Analysis Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development Performance Level Proficient Question 01 Which of the following words is derived from the name of the Greek god of sleep A labyrinthian B titanic C hypnotic D geocentric i LS shoob Photography 20 25 30 Publish Grade 10 English Language Arts Word Analysis Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development Performance Level Proficient Question 02 I m in Charge of Celebrations Sometimes people ask me Aren t you lonely out there with just desert around you guess they mean the beargrass and the yuccas and the cactus and the rocks guess they mean the deep ravines and the hawk nests in the cliffs and the coyote trails that wind across the hills Lonely can t help laughing when they ask me that always look at them surprised And say How could be lonely l m the one in charge of celebrations lishin 35 40 45 50 55 by Byrd Baylor Sometimes they don t believe me 60 but it s true lam put myself in charge 65 choose my own Last year gave myself one hundred and eight 70 celebrations besides the ones that they close school for cannot get by with only 75 a few Friend l Il tell you how it works keep a notebook and write the date
21. too Most are nocturnal There are scores of bird species as well as many reptiles and a few amphibians Tortoises lizards and snakes including rattlesnakes are among the reptile population Amphibians include a few kinds of frogs and toads and one species of salamander 4 Small mammals including mice rats squirrels and bats also live in the park So do larger ones like foxes coyotes badgers bobcats mountain lions deer and bighorn sheep The burro and the horse while not native species also survive and thrive in Death Valley There is an even more surprising fact there are fish in Death Valley They live in the park s springs streams and ponds lt LS shoob Photography What is the correct way to list a book about Death Valley by Maxine Garcia lO O gt Maxine Garcia New York The Famous Valley Hartford Books 1998 Garcia Maxine The Famous Valley New York Hartford Books 1998 The Famous Valley by Maxine Garcia New York Hartford Books 1998 Garcia Maxine New York Hartford Books The Famous Valley 1998 Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Proficient Question 10 The following is a rough draft of a student s essay It contains errors The Excitement of Murals 1 The name Los Tres Grandes or The Big Three refers to three artists who start ed the first major modern art movement that began outside of Europe 2 When peo
22. All Time New York Standard Books 2002 Ryan Tom Whitman An American Voice Chicago Noland 1999 Stevens Constance Stylistic Innovations in the Poetry of Walt Whitman Poetry Today 12 2000 27 37 Read this sentence from paragraph 4 of the report Whitman s poetic style was uncommon in the sense that he wrote poems in a form called thought rhythm or parallelism in which his goal was to mimic the movement of the sea and the transitory nature of human emotion Which is the best way to rewrite the underlined part of the sentence to include more sensory details the ebb and flow of the sea the big waves of the sea the changes in size of the sea the sound of the sea IO O gt Er Ae S27 Sj shooe Phot Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Proficient Question 12 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Eurlene Jarzembek English Mr Carter September 4 2003 Walt Whitman America s Poet 1 Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island New York Whitman received most of his education outside of the classroom His parents Walter and Louisa Whit man were uneducated but hard working people At the age of eleven he worked in a law office as an office boy where he became interested in reading He was soon reading the works of prominent authors like William Shakespeare and Homer and was well on his way to becoming on
23. Comprehension Performance Level Below Basic Question 01 These three documents are about a software program You will need to refer to them as you answer the questions that follow Music to Your Ears by Mark Sanders Ba A 8 If you are like most American teenagers you probably own a music CD In fact you may own dozens of the m even hundreds of them Young people are buying more compact discs than ever before As their libraries have grown so has the demand for a way to organize their collections New Generation Software Company has the answer Today the company announced the release of Collector s Catalog a new user friendly software program that allows col lectors to catalog their music collections The database has the capability of maintain ing an inventory of as many as 1 000 CDs The program stores the tracking information such as record title artist category and release date that is needed to locate any CD in seconds Harrison Quaile Vice President of Marketing for New Generation explained that with Collector s Catalog an inventory can be progressively enlarged and retrieved with ease If you are a serious music collector this news should be music to your ears R Shoob Photography Bibliography American Marketing Resources Keeping Pace With Consumer Demand The Kilmartin Report Washington Capitol Hill Press 1999 Brown Jamar What s New in Software Software Inside
24. Los Angeles and press the corresponding code which is the key 2 3 4 5 6 7 Press TIME twice The two digits representing hours will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until the desired hour flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing minutes will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until the desired minute flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing seconds will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or V key until 00 flashes Then release Press SET To set the year month and day press DATE three times Then repeat steps 2 through 7 NOTE At this point hours minutes and seconds will change to year month and day DETERMINING DATE AND TIME FOR THE WORLD S 16 TIME ZONES l 2 Press ZONE twice Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate the code that corresponds to the time zone for which you desire the date and time Press that code e g press to determine the date and time in Hong Kong The selected date and time will alternately display for 10 seconds and then return automatically to your home date and time cope CYT TIME J CODE CITY TIME 0 Honolulu 10 ff 8 Caio 1 LosAngeles 8 9 Moscow 3 2 Dener 7 f Karachi 5 3 Chicago Bangkok 7 a a ie HongKong 8 pach ele Tokyo 49 6 London Sydney 10 a E __ Wellington 12 The TIME columa shows the number of hours each cit
25. Shop around and compare You can t afford to put off getting in shape any longer Visit a FitQuest dealer near you Document B Fitness Journal Consumer Report FitQuest 2000 Everything You Need in a Home Gym The editors of Fitness Journal asked me to check out and critique three of the most popular home gyms chose three machines that seemed to target different markets the Bodyworks Il the FitQuest 2000 and the Home Training System by Cawells Indus tries All three machines are said to fold away and store easily all three claim a full body workout can be completed in as little as 30 minutes and all three stress they can help the user lose weight and look better i LS shoot Photography Document B continued FitQuest 2000 Rank 1 Price 199 Available Most large department stores The FitQuest 2000 turned out to be a great little home gym It was not the most expen sive nor did it offer the most options but it was fast easy to use and left me feeling like I d had a real workout The first pleasant surprise was opening the box to find it fully assembled The FitQuest easily unpacked and unfolded and within ten minutes was working out Using the enclosed wall chart and operating instructions was able to perform all 20 of the exercises the machine claims to offer Note FitQuest does not recommend doing all 20 exercises during each workout The machine is fast The only adjustments between exercises are
26. The name Los Tres Grandes or The Big Three refers to three artists who start ed the first major modern art movement that began outside of Europe 2 When peo ple think of art they frequently think of European countries like Italy Spain and France 3 They think of Michelangelo Monet and Picasso 4 Mexico however should also be mentioned in the same breath thanks to the following artists Diego Rivera Jos Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros 5 In the early part of the twentieth century these three artists began a new art form called Mexican Muralism 6 Rather than create paintings that would be housed in homes or museums and be seen by only a small number of people the muralists used prominent public buildings as their canvases 7 Their murals contained images of important social issues of their time and were painted in mostly neutral colors 8 In the 1920s and 1930s these artists traviled to the United States and painted murals in major cities like Los Angeles and New York 9 In the 1960s and 1970s Mexican Muralism had a rebirth in the southwestern part of the United States 10 This happening was called the Chicano Mural Movement 11 The Chicano Mural Move ment again used public buildings on which to create images 12 Many of these works of art captured and expressed a unique culture and heritage 13 A large number of these striking murals can still be seen in California Texas and Arizona
27. The oldest man in the world could not make head or tail of the time of day by such a watch and so went again to have the thing repaired 9 This person said that the crystal had got bent and that the mainspring was not straight He also remarked that part of the works needed half soling He made these things all right and then my timepiece performed unexceptionably save that now and then after working along quietly for nearly eight hours everything inside would let go all of a sudden and begin to buzz like a bee and the hands would straightway begin to spin round and round so fast that their individuality was lost completely and they simply seemed a delicate spider s web over the face of the watch She would reel off the next twenty four hours in six or seven minutes and then stop with a bang 10 I went with a heavy heart to one more watchmaker and looked on while he took her to pieces Then prepared to cross question him rigidly for this thing was get ting serious The watch had cost two hundred dollars originally and seemed to have paid out two or three thousand for repairs azar LQ shoot Photography 11 While waited and looked on presently recognized in this watchmaker an old acquaintance a steamboat engineer of other days and not a good engineer ei ther He examined all the parts carefully just as the other watchmakers had done and then delivered his verdict with the same confidence of manner 12 He s
28. a teenager Howard had tuberculosis a very serious illness that led to a long hospitalization 8 It is likely that as an adult Howard persisted in submitting his play refusing to give up in spite of rejection because he already knew how to face and overcome adversity 9 In addition Howard made use of the time of illness and recovery by practicing his writing 10 He went to the University of California and then to Harvard after he got well where he earned a master s de gree 11 Although Howard was primarily a playwright he was also a screenwriter 12 He wrote the screenplay for the film classic Gone With the Wind for which he won an Academy Award Continue ceca LS shoob Photography Read this sentence If Howard had not believed in himself and his play if he had not persevered until failure became success he might of given up and pursued a different career What is the correct way to revise the underlined words in this sentence lO O gt he might of give up and pursue a different career he might of given up pursued a different career he might have given up and pursued a different career he might give up and pursue a different career i Sy shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Basic Question 06 The following is a rough draft of a student s essay It contains errors S
29. ce dars or on a lyrical moonshed plain or watching trout rise to the shadow of your hand on the placid surface of an Alpine lake When the skunk lets go you re surrounded by skunk presence inhabited owned involved with something you can only describe as powerfully there 6 woke at dawn stunned into that sprayed state of being The dog that had ap proached me was rolling in the grass half addled sprayed too My skunk was gone abandoned my sleeping bag and started home Up Eighth Street past the tiny blue and pink houses past my grade school past all the addresses where babysat walked in my own strange wind The streets were wide and empty met no one not a dog not a squirrel not even an early robin Perhaps they had all scattered before me blocks away had gone out to sleep on the football field because was afflicted with a sadness had to dramatize They were nothing to me now My emotions had seemed vast dark and private But they were minor mere wisps compared to skunk Skunk Dreams from THE BLUE JAY S DANCE by LOUISE ERDRICH Copyright 1995 by Louise Erdrich Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc LS shoob Photography The narrator in Skunk Dreams describes the odor from the skunk as powerfully there What does the author mean by this A 0s IO U There was only a faint smell from the skunk but it lingered for a long time
30. choose Los Angeles and press the corresponding code which is the 1 key wf Bp p D T Press TIME twice The two digits representing hours will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until the desired hour flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing minutes will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until the desired minute flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing seconds will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until 00 flashes Then release Press SET To set the year month and day press DATE three times Then repeat steps 2 through 7 NOTE At this point hours minutes and seconds will change to year month and day DETERMINING DATE AND TIME FOR THE WORLD S 16 TIME ZONES L 2 Press ZONE twice Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate the code that corresponds to the time zone for which you desire the date and time Press that code e g press to determine the date and time in Hong Kong The selected date and time will alternately display for 10 seconds and then return automatically to your home date and time 0 Honolulu 10 1 Los Angeles 8 2 Denver 7 3 Chicago 6 4 NewYork 5 5 RlodeJanelo 3 6 London 0 CODE CITY TIME 8 Cairo 2 9 Moscow 3 Bangkok 7 HongKong 8 Er T E Sydney 10 Lt Wellington 12 The TIME column shows the number of ho
31. current trends in mural art C a book titled The History of Latino Art D a journal article entitled Murals of the Big Three ra FR shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Proficient Question 11 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Eurlene Jarzembek English Mr Carter September 4 2003 Walt Whitman America s Poet 1 Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island New York Whitman received most of his education outside of the classroom His parents Walter and Louisa Whit man were uneducated but hard working people At the age of eleven he worked in a law office as an office boy where he became interested in reading He was soon reading the works of prominent authors like William Shakespeare and Homer and was well on his way to becoming one of America s most well known and endearing poets 2 By the time Whitman was seventeen years old he had already worked as a printer s apprentice worked as a compositor and a teacher Despite his aversion to teaching he excelled in the profession developing an amicable relationship with his students he even allowed them to address him by his first name He also developed fresh teaching techniques and learning games to help his students with spelling and arithmetic In his early twenties however he gave up teaching to pursue a full time career as a journalist and poet 3 Wh
32. day it would go like the very mischief and keep up such a barking and wheezing and whooping and sneezing and snorting that could not hear myself think for the disturbance and as long as it held out there was not a watch in the land that stood any chance against it But the rest of the day it would keep on slowing down and fooling along until all the clocks it had left behind caught up again So at last at the end of twenty four hours it would trot up to the judges stand all right and just in time It would show a fair and square average and no man could say it had done more or less than its duty But a correct average is only a mild virtue in a watch and took this instrument to another watchmaker 7 He said the king bolt was broken He repaired the king bolt but what the watch gained in one way it lost in another It would run awhile and then stop awhile and then run awhile again and so on using its own discretion about the intervals And every time it went off it kicked back like a musket padded my breast for a few days but finally took the watch to another watchmaker 8 He picked it all to pieces and turned the ruin over and over under his glass and then he said there appeared to be something the matter with the hair trigger He fixed it and gave it a fresh start It did well now except that always at ten minutes to ten the hands would shut together like a pair of scissors and from that time forth they would travel together
33. fields in the record except comments are required This means they can NOT be left blank you must enter information in each box TDA Mi Creating a New Data Record Collector s Catalog CD Organizer 1 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu File See 2 Type the title of the CD in the box below the word All Recorde TITLE A Included with your User s Manual is a booklet of colored and numbered adhesive stickers Remove the colored sticker that corresponds w ith the color code and number you assign to each CD and stick it on the hinged side of the plastic CD holder i Sy shoob Photography According to Document C how do you move from one field to the next Select the NEW RECORD option Select the PRINT option Press the EXIT key Press the TAB key lO O gt Back ae Sy shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Performance Level Below Basic Question 02 USING YOUR GOLDEN ARROW MULTIPURPOSE CALCULATOR TO DETERMINE THE DATE AND TIME AT YOUR LOCATION AS WELL AS LOCATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE SETTING THE DATE AND TIME FOR YOUR LOCATION Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate the code that corresponds with the time zone in which you live Select the major city that shares your time zone Press the code that corresponds to that city e g if you live in Washington Oregon California or Nevada all of which are located in the Pacific time zone you would
34. from the factory for ae returned items To obtain service contact the FitQuest Customer Service Depart may MENT at the number provided in the User s Guide Users can also write with ques x tions to FitQuest Inc Customer Service P O Box 1800 Oceanside CA 90000 lt LS shoob Photography FitQuest 30 Day Money Back Guarantee All FitQuest products come with a 30 day money back guarantee less all freight charges Returns should be made in the original box Please include a copy of the original sales receipt with the date of purchase clearly marked Make sure that all parts are returned with the machine Please attach a letter detailing any damage It is requested that you also provide an explanation of why you were dissatisfied with the machine This information is optional and will be used by FitQuest only to improve our products The point of the large boldfaced reference to a magazine article in Document A is to persuade the reader of the machine s popularity convince the reader to subscribe to the magazine encourage the reader to find out more about fitness let the reader know that the machine is expensive IO O b gt Back oe Compted and LS shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Performance Level Proficient Question 04 These three documents are about a software program You will need to refer to them as you answer the questions that fo
35. gt Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Performance Level Proficient Question 01 These three documents are about a software program You will need to refer to them as you answer the questions that follow Music to Your Ears by Mark Sanders Ba A 8 If you are like most American teenagers you probably own a music CD In fact you may own dozens of the m even hundreds of them Young people are buying more compact discs than ever before As their libraries have grown so has the demand for a way to organize their collections New Generation Software Company has the answer Today the company announced the release of Collector s Catalog a new user friendly software program that allows col lectors to catalog their music collections The database has the capability of maintain ing an inventory of as many as 1 000 CDs The program stores the tracking information such as record title artist category and release date that is needed to locate any CD in seconds Harrison Quaile Vice President of Marketing for New Generation explained that with Collector s Catalog an inventory can be progressively enlarged and retrieved with ease If you are a serious music collector this news should be music to your ears R Shoob Photography Bibliography American Marketing Resources Keeping Pace With Consumer Demand The Kilmartin Report Washington Capitol Hill Press 1999
36. however was not owned by Burbage only the playhouse The playhouse land however was not owned by Burbage Burbage owned only the playhouse however not the land Burbage however owned not the land but he did own the playhouse lO O gt Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Advanced Question 03 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors The Beginnings of the Globe 1 Everyone knows that the Globe Theater is a cool place 2 In 1996 it was voted the best attraction in Europe however this version of the Globe completed in the mid 1990s with funds from the Shakespeare Globe Playhouse Trust is not the original Globe built in the 1500s 3 During the 16th century plays were popular entertainment among all kinds of people from the wealthy nobles to the working class 4 Queen Elizabeth of England had a great love for the arts music poetry dance and plays 5 Actors performed in inns throughout the countryside and in London 6 James Burbage an actor and painter built the first public playhouse in England called The Theater because it was the first ever built in London 7 Now the audience could come to the actors rather than the other way around and The Theater was a huge success 8 When Burbage died his sons Cuthbert and Richard inherited The Theater 9 The land however on which the playhouse
37. in North America and one of the hottest places known in the world The highest temperature ever recorded in the valley was 134 Fahrenheit and the temperature routinely reaches 115 in July That is way too amazingly hot for me Parts of Death Valley receive fewer than two inches of rain in an entire year This extremely low rainfall is caused by the rainshadow effect 2 Death Valley National Park is either 3 367 628 acres or 3 396 192 acres depending on which source you believe The park includes the valley itself and the surrounding mountains In spite of the name of the park and its hard climatic conditions Death Valley is alive More than 970 types of plants grow there including not only cactus but also grasses shrubs and even trees like juniper pine and mesquite Most of the trees grow in the mountains where the air is cooler and there is more water 3 The park is alive with birds reptiles and amphibians too Most are nocturnal There are scores of bird species as well as many reptiles and a few amphibians Tortoises lizards and snakes including rattlesnakes are among the reptile population Amphibians include a few kinds of frogs and toads and one species of salamander 4 Small mammals including mice rats squirrels and bats also live in the park So do larger ones like foxes coyotes badgers bobcats mountain lions deer and bighorn sheep The burro and the horse while not native species also survive and th
38. like foxes coyotes badgers bobcats mountain lions deer and bighorn sheep The burro and the horse while not native species also survive and thrive in Death Valley There is an even more surprising fact there are fish in Death Valley They live in the park s springs streams and ponds lt FR shoob Photography Which of the following is the best way to present the conflicting facts mentioned in the first sentence of paragraph 2 A 00 IO o Death Valley National Park is sometimes 3 367 628 acres and sometimes 3 396 192 acres Sources disagree on the exact size of Death Valley National Park but it is huge Sources disagree on the exact size of Death Valley National Park but agree that it is more than 3 3 million acres According to sources which disagree Death Valley is between 3 367 628 and 3 396 192 acres big Back a lt 7 LQ shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Proficient Question 08 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Sylvia Hernandez Mrs Woods Geography 101 January 10 2003 Life in Death Valley 1 Death Valley in southeastern California is the hottest driest place in North America and one of the hottest places known in the world The highest temperature ever recorded in the valley was 134 Fahrenheit and the temperature routinely reaches 115 in July That is wa
39. rest of the day it would keep on slowing down and fooling along until all the clocks it had left behind caught up again So at last at the end of twenty four hours it would trot up to the judges stand all right and just in time It would show a fair and square average and no man could say it had done more or less than its duty But a correct average is only a mild virtue in a watch and took this instrument to another watchmaker 7 He said the king bolt was broken He repaired the king bolt but what the watch gained in one way it lost in another It would run awhile and then stop awhile and then run awhile again and so on using its own discretion about the intervals And every time it went off it kicked back like a musket padded my breast for a few days but finally took the watch to another watchmaker 8 He picked it all to pieces and turned the ruin over and over under his glass and then he said there appeared to be something the matter with the hair trigger He fixed it and gave it a fresh start It did well now except that always at ten minutes to ten the hands would shut together like a pair of scissors and from that time forth they would travel together The oldest man in the world could not make head or tail of the time of day by such a watch and so went again to have the thing repaired 9 This person said that the crystal had got bent and that the mainspring was not straight He also remarked that part of the works need
40. said She is four minutes slow regulator wants pushing up 3 tried to stop him tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time But no all this human cabbage could see was that the watch was four minutes slow and the regulator must be pushed up a little and so while danced around him in anguish and implored him to let the watch alone he calmly and cruelly did the shameful deed 4 My watch began to gain It gained faster and faster day by day Within the week it sickened to a raging fever and its pulse went up to a hundred and fifty in the shade At the end of two months it had left all the timepieces of the town far in the rear and was a fraction over thirteen days ahead of the almanac If was away into November enjoying the snow while the October leaves were still turning It hurried up house rent bills payable and such things in such a ruinous way that could not abide it took it to the watchmaker to be regulated 5 After being cleaned and oiled and regulated my watch slowed down to that degree that it ticked like a tolling bell began to be left by trains failed all appoint ments got to missing my dinner went to a watchmaker again Continue ee LS shoob Photography 6 He took the watch all to pieces while waited and then said the barrel was swelled He said he could reduce it in three days After this the watch averaged well but nothing more For half a
41. sloping hillsides and sparkling riverbeds sights he translated brush stroke by brush stroke onto canvases that grew more assured as time went by He sold enough of these early works to keep going LS shoob Photography 6 In Philadelphia he met a young woman named Mary Nimmo who became his wife and later his companion in work Moran helped Mary develop her talent for painting and etching while he continued to develop his own artistic style 7 By 1870 Moran was illustrating articles for Scribner s Monthly magazine One ar ticle written by explorer Nathaniel Langford described a mysterious region in the West called Yellowstone as the place where hell bubbled up Langford wrote of a threat ening underworld marked by foul smelling sulfur steam By reworking crude drawings made by members of Langford s expedition and using his own imagination Moran drew a fantastic world of erupting geysers and jagged pinnacles 8 At the time little was known about this part of the West The area we now call Yellowstone encompassing sections of Wyoming Montana and Idaho was nearly inaccessible Plans to explore the region had been halted by the start of the Civil War in 1861 9 With the end of the war came new explorations sourred in part by a celebra tion of freedom and patriotism In 1867 the government began funding a number of survey teams to visit uncharted territories in the West The initial teams produced vital info
42. the age of eleven he worked in a law office as an office boy where he became interested in reading He was soon reading the works of prominent authors like William Shakespeare and Homer and was well on his way to becoming one of America s most well known and endearing poets 2 By the time Whitman was seventeen years old he had already worked as a printer s apprentice worked as a compositor and a teacher Despite his aversion to teaching he excelled in the profession developing an amicable relationship with his students he even allowed them to address him by his first name He also developed fresh teaching techniques and learning games to help his students with spelling and arithmetic In his early twenties however he gave up teaching to pursue a full time career as a journalist and poet 3 When Walt Whitman first emerged as a poet his arrival onto the American literary scene was met with controversy His first collection of poems Leaves of Grass was so unusual that no commercial publisher would print the work In 1855 Whitman published at his own expense the first edition of his collection of twelve poems 4 Whitman s poetic style was uncommon in the sense that he wrote poems in a form called thought rhythm or parallelism in which his goal was to mimic the movement of the sea and the transitory nature of human emotion A recurrent theme in Whitman s poetry is self realization In his work Whitman deveates from conventional patte
43. the colored sticker that corresponds w ith the color code and number you assign to each CD and stick it on the hinged side of the plastic CD holder i Sy shoob Photography Which of these facts about Collector s Catalog can be found by reading the page from the User s Manual Document C Collector s Catalog is a new computer program Collector s Catalog can inventory up to 1 000 CDs New Generation Software manufactures Collector s Catalog Collector s Catalog does not require the comments field to be completed lO O gt Back 27 shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Performance Level Proficient Question 03 Read these three documents and answer the questions that follow Document A FitQuest 2000 Your Home Fitness Solution 1 the price of comparable models 3 a ered Ja hata Look Great imited Time Offer Feel Better Live Longer The Number 1 Get started now for that summer body you ve always dreamed about Home Gym Strength training will not only improve your physical appearance it will increase your energy and help you stay healthy and happy Plus you ll be able to enjoy more of those forbidden foods and snacks with a clean conscience Shop around and compare You can t afford to put off getting in shape any longer Visit a FitQuest dealer near you Fitness Journal Document B Fitness Journa
44. to offer Note FitQuest does not recommend doing all 20 exercises during each workout The machine is fast The only adjustments between exercises are to the incline and the cables and are simple and easy to accomplish Still when attempted a suggested workout the next day it took some hustle to get through it in 30 minutes However users could probably still complete the workout in less than 45 minutes at a reasonable pace Bottom line If you can t join a gym this is a good alternative Cawells Industries advertises the Home Training System as the ultimate home workout for the serious trainer These are not just hollow promises The first clue that this will be a serious machine is the price tag a full 500 more than the FitQuest 2000 The Home Training System does offer almost everything you can think of in a home gym and its 58 exercises are almost double that offered by the FitQuest or Bodyworks Il machines The Home Training System provides a genuine workout that nearly rivals what could be achieved at commercial fitness gyms However this is a gym for someone with plenty of time for training Changing exercise positions on this machine is cumbersome and sometimes more of a workout than the exercises themselves It required almost two hours to assemble It is bulky and would only be considered portable by Arnold Schwarzenegger maybe Bottom line this is a good machine but if you ve got this much time and money jo
45. was built was not owned by Burbage 10 Aman named Giles Allen owned the land and did not want to renew the lease 11 The actors decided they would build their own theater 12 They rented land near another theater The Rose and used timber from The Theater to build the first Globe Theater 13 It was here that Shakespeare s famous plays were performed 14 Success was instantaneous 15 This theater was a favorite of audiences and actors alike 16 The actors love for The Globe was so strong that when it burned down in 1613 they pooled their own money to rebuild it making it even better than before with elaborate decoration and detail adorning the stage 17 Even though this version of the Globe Theater did not survive through the century its legacy lives on lt FR shoob Photography What is the correct way to combine sentences 14 and 15 A 0s IO U Success was instantaneous the theater was a favorite of audiences and actors alike Success was instantaneous and the theater was a favorite of audiences and actors alike The theater was a favorite of audiences and actors alike because success was instantaneous The theater was a favorite of audiences Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Proficient Question 01 The following is a rough draft of a student s essay It contains errors The Excitement of Murals 1
46. you re standing on top of a mountain and you ll catch your breath like you were breathing some new kind of air Otherwise count it just an average day I told you was choosy Skunk Dreams by Louise Erdrich 1 When was fourteen slept alone on a North Dakota football field under cold stars on an early September night Fall progresses swiftly in the Red River Valley and happened to hit a night when frost formed in the grass A skunk trailed a plume of steam across the forty yard line near moonrise tucked the top of my sleep ing bag over my head and was just dozing off when the skunk walked onto me with simple authority 2 Its ripe odor must have dissipated in the heavy summer grass and ditch weeds because it didn t smell all that bad or perhaps it was just that took shallow breaths in numb surprise felt him her whatever pause on the side of my hip and turn around twice before evidently deciding was a good place to sleep At the back of my knees on the quilting of my sleeping bag it trod out a spot for itself and then with a serene little groan curled up and lay perfectly still That made two of us was wildly awake trying to forget the sharpness and number of skunk teeth trying not to think of the high percentage of skunks with rabies 3 Inside the bag felt as if might smother Carefully making only the slightest of rustles drew the bag away from my face and took a deep breath o
47. your entries simply hit EXIT All information you entered is saved Note All fields in the record except comments are required This means they can NOT be left blank you must enter information in each box TDA Mi Creating a New Data Record Collector s Catalog CD Organizer 1 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu File See 2 Type the title of the CD in the box below the word All Recorde TITLE A Included with your User s Manual is a booklet of colored and numbered adhesive stickers Remove the colored sticker that corresponds w ith the color code and number you assign to each CD and stick it on the hinged side of the plastic CD holder i Sy shoob Photography In Document C which of these should help the reader visualize where to enter the re quired information a graphic showing a CD a simulated computer screen step by step instructions notes in italics lO O gt Back Ser eshot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Performance Level Proficient Question 02 These three documents are about a software program You will need to refer to them as you answer the questions that follow Music to Your Ears by Mark Sanders Ba A 8 If you are like most American teenagers you probably own a music CD In fact you may own dozens of the m even hundreds of them Young people are buying more compact discs than ever before As their li
48. 20 25 30 Pubs Standardized Testing and Reporting STAR Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Advanced Question 01 I m in Charge of Celebrations Sometimes people ask me Aren t you lonely out there with just desert around you guess they mean the beargrass and the yuccas and the cactus and the rocks guess they mean the deep ravines and the hawk nests in the cliffs and the coyote trails that wind across the hills Lonely can t help laughing when they ask me that always look at them surprised And say How could be lonely I m the one in charge of celebrations rinted with the permission of ee Books for Young Readers an imprint of Simon amp Pel er Childr e of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor Copyright 1986 Byrd Ba q lOe ae gt a sarl lishin 35 40 45 50 55 by Byrd Baylor Sometimes they don t believe me 60 but it s true lam put myself in charge 65 choose my own Last year gave myself one hundred and eight 70 celebrations besides the ones that they close school for cannot get by with only 75 a few Friend l Il tell you how it works keep a notebook and write the date 80 and then write about the celebration l m very choosy over what goes in that book It has to be something plan to remember the re
49. 80 and then write about the celebration l m very choosy over what goes in that book It has to be something plan to remember the rest of my life You can fell what s worth a celebration because your heart will POUND and you ll feel like you re standing on top of a mountain and you ll catch your breath like you were breathing some new kind of air Otherwise count it just an average day I told you was choosy rinted with the permission of ee Books for Young Readers an imprint of Simon amp sea Childr e of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor Copyright 1986 Byr Bc MRU sarl Shoob Photography Skunk Dreams by Louise Erdrich 1 When was fourteen slept alone on a North Dakota football field under cold stars on an early September night Fall progresses swiftly in the Red River Valley and happened to hit a night when frost formed in the grass A skunk trailed a plume of steam across the forty yard line near moonrise tucked the top of my sleep ing bag over my head and was just dozing off when the skunk walked onto me with simple authority 2 Its ripe odor must have dissipated in the heavy summer grass and ditch weeds because it didn t smell all that bad or perhaps it was just that took shallow breaths in numb surprise felt him her whatever pause on the side of my hip and turn around twice before evidently deciding was a good place to sleep At the back of m
50. A when information is given about a book a colon is used to separate the name of the book and the publication date the title of the book and the name of the publisher the name of the author and the title of the book the name of the publishing company and city where it is located IO O gt Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Performance Level Proficient Question 06 These three documents are about a software program You will need to refer to them as you answer the questions that follow Music to Your Ears by Mark Sanders Ba A 8 If you are like most American teenagers you probably own a music CD In fact you may own dozens of the m even hundreds of them Young people are buying more compact discs than ever before As their libraries have grown so has the demand for a way to organize their collections New Generation Software Company has the answer Today the company announced the release of Collector s Catalog a new user friendly software program that allows col lectors to catalog their music collections The database has the capability of maintain ing an inventory of as many as 1 000 CDs The program stores the tracking information such as record title artist category and release date that is needed to locate any CD in seconds Harrison Quaile Vice President of Marketing for New Generation explained that with Collector s Catalog an inventory can be progressi
51. MY TIME 0 Honolulu 10 1 LosAngeles 8 2 Denver 7 3 Chicago 6 4 NewYork 5 5 RlodeJanelo 3 6 London 0 CODE CITY TIME 8 Cairo 2 9 Moscow 3 Bangkok 7 HongKong 8 Toyo 9 Sydney 10 Lt Wellington 12 The TIME column shows the number of hours each city is ahead of or behind London i LS shoob Photography USING THE 100 YEAR CALENDAR You can view the calendar for the years 1950 to 2050 i 2 A MAA Press CAL twice The four digits representing the year will begin to flash Depress and hold down the A or V key until the desired year flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing the month will begin to flash Depress and hold down the A or V key until the desired month flashes Then release Press SET The calendar for the month and year you have selected will display To return to the current clock calendar display press CAL once Why are the words TIME SET DATE ZONE and CAL most likely set in a typeface different from the rest of the text IO O gt to draw attention to complicated technical terms to indicate words that appear on the calculator s buttons to designate words that are defined in the passage to provide variety and interest to the appearance of the document on Back a 27 shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading
52. Morgan Distinguished Architect 1 Julia Morgan California s first woman architect and the designer of Hearst Castle was a true pioneer During her long distinguished career she designed many beautiful homes schools hospitals and community centers Though Morgan faced many chal lenges on her way to becoming an architect she overcame them all 2 Morgan hoped to study architecture in college but the University of California at Berkeley which she began attending at the age of 18 did not have an architecture school Morgan majored in civil engineering instead but she held on to her dream of designing buildings After she graduated friends urged her to apply to the L Ecole des Beaux Arts a famous architecture school in Paris 3 The 22 year old Morgan sailed for Paris full of hope and excitement This must have made it all the more crushing when school authorities told Morgan that women were not allowed to take the entrance examinations Morgan refused to give up how ever She began to study French to prepare for the exam In 1897 the school finally decided to let women take the entrance exams and Morgan took the exam for the first time She did well but did not place in the top thirty the school s requirement for admittance After taking the test twice more Morgan finally gained admittance to the L Ecole des Beaux Arts Keeping his audience in mind what tone did Kevin strive for in his report A slangy B technical infor
53. News 1 January 2000 sec B 4 Compact Discs The Universal Encyclopedia of Technology 1998 ed Hauser Melanie Compact Disc Packaging Analysis Music Plus Digest 15 December 2000 32 Larkin Esther Not Compact Enough Solving the Music Storage Question London Choice Publications 1998 Valez Hector Working Teens as Consumers Los Angeles Victory Press 1996 Back Continue i LS shoob Photography Solving the Organizati on Puzzle _ Collector s Catalog is the hottest new database 3 a B L see software program fo y oe wae classifying and managing SPR i _ C gt compact disc collections a Imagine No more digging through E a boxes or stacks of CDs to find what you Sa a re entire collection is just a mouse click away Collector s j want With Coffecitor s Catafug your __ L r cataloging m a Catalan Cataiog It s no puzzle why Collector s Catalog 39 is America s 1 choice Document B or 3 Use the TAB key to move from one field to the next until you have entered all the requested information 4 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu The entry is automatically saved and the title of the CD will appear on the left side of the screen under ALL RECORDS 5 Repeat the procedure to enter additional CDs After you have made all of your entries simply hit EXIT All information you entered is saved Note All
54. OUR LOCATION Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate the code that corresponds with the time zone in which you live Select the major city that shares your time zone Press the code that corresponds to that city e g if you live in Washington Oregon California or Nevada all of which are located in the Pacific time zone you would choose Los Angeles and press the corresponding code which is the key N SE w amp Press TIME twice The two digits representing hours will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until the desired hour flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing minutes will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until the desired minute flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing seconds will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until 00 flashes Then release Press SET To set the year month and day press DATE three times Then repeat steps 2 through 7 NOTE At this point hours minutes and seconds will change to year month and day DETERMINING DATE AND TIME FOR THE WORLD S 16 TIME ZONES l 2 Press ZONE twice Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate the code that corresponds to the time zone for which you desire the date and time Press that code e g press to determine the date and time in Hong Kong The selected date and time will alternately display for 10 seconds and then return automatically to your home date and time CODE C
55. The odor was so pungent that she could not escape it and it could not be ignored The odor disappeared almost as quickly as it had arrived with the skunk The smell was so strong the narrator believed that it would never dissipate Grade 10 English Language Arts Word Analysis Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development Performance Level Advanced Question 02 Read the following two selections and think about how they are alike and how they are different Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made 5 banked fires blaze No one ever thanked him I d wake and hear the cold splintering breaking When the rooms were warm he d call and slowly would rise and dress fearing the chronic angers of that house 10 Speaking indifferently to him who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well What did know what did know of love s austere and lonely offices Those Winter Sundays Copyright 1966 by Robert Hayden from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden by Robert Hayden edited by Frederick Glaysher Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation i LS shoob Photography CONA OaBKWDN WWWWWNHNNNNNNNNN gt 2 gt O RwWN DOD NODAOAN A A KWH OYNWVSVONO A AOAAR ON O The Grammar of Silk
56. The skunk settled even closer and began to breathe rapidly its feet jerked a little like a dog s sank against the earth and fell asleep too on Back contnve FE ree LS shoob Photography 4 Of what easily tipped cans what molten sludge what dogs in yards on chains what leftover macaroni casseroles what cellar holes crawl spaces burrows taken from meek woodchucks of what miracles of garbage did my skunk dream Or did it since we can t be sure dream the plot of Moby Dick how to properly age Parmesan or how to restore the brick walled tumbledown creamery that was its home We don t know about the dreams of any other biota and even much about our own If dreams are an actual dimension as some assert then the usual rules of life by which we abide do not apply In that place skunks may certainly dream of themselves into the vests of stockbrokers Perhaps that night the skunk and dreamed each other s thoughts or are still dreaming them To paraphrase the problem of the Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu may be a woman who has dreamed herself a skunk or a skunk still dreaming that she is a woman 5 Skunks don t mind each other s vile perfume Obviously they find each other more than tolerable And even who have been in the presence of a direct skunk hit wouldn t classify their weapon as mere smell It is more on the order of a reality enhancing experience It s not so pleasant as standing in a grove of old growth
57. a Hernandez Mrs Woods Geography 101 January 10 2003 Life in Death Valley 1 Death Valley in southeastern California is the hottest driest place in North America and one of the hottest places known in the world The highest temperature ever recorded in the valley was 134 Fahrenheit and the temperature routinely reaches 115 in July That is way too amazingly hot for me Parts of Death Valley receive fewer than two inches of rain in an entire year This extremely low rainfall is caused by the rainshadow effect 2 Death Valley National Park is either 3 367 628 acres or 3 396 192 acres depending on which source you believe The park includes the valley itself and the surrounding mountains In spite of the name of the park and its hard climatic conditions Death Valley is alive More than 970 types of plants grow there including not only cactus but also grasses shrubs and even trees like juniper pine and mesquite Most of the trees grow in the mountains where the air is cooler and there is more water 3 The park is alive with birds reptiles and amphibians too Most are nocturnal There are scores of bird species as well as many reptiles and a few amphibians Tortoises lizards and snakes including rattlesnakes are among the reptile population Amphibians include a few kinds of frogs and toads and one species of salamander 4 Small mammals including mice rats squirrels and bats also live in the park So do larger ones
58. aBKWDN WWWWWNHONNNNNNNNN VP gt gt O RwWN OD NUODAOAN A AKRWBNHNH DOD UDAOAON A aA KRWN O The Grammar of Silk by Cathy Song On Saturdays in the morning my mother sent me to Mrs Umemoto s sewing school It was cool and airy in her basement pleasant a word choose to use years later to describe the long tables where we sat and cut pinned and stitched the Singer s companionable whirr the crisp clever bite of scissors parting like silver fish a river of calico The school was in walking distance to Kaimuki Dry Goods where my mother purchased my supplies small cards of buttons zippers and rickrack packaged like licorice lifesaver rolls of thread in fifty yard lengths spun from spools tough as tackle Seamstresses waited at the counters like librarians to be consulted Pens and scissors dangled like awkward pendants across flat chests a scarf of measuring tape flung across a shoulder timeas a pincushion bristled at the wrist They deciphered a dress s blueprints with an architect s keen eye This evidently was a sanctuary a place where women confined with children conferred consulted the oracle the stone tablets of the latest pattern books Here mothers and daughters paused in symmetry offered the proper reverence hushed murmurings for the shauntung silk which required a certain sigh Ming Dynasty J Back Continue omen
59. acher What is the correct way to rewrite this sentence using parallel structure A By the time Whitman was seventeen years old he had already worked as a printer s apprentice he had worked as a compositor and a teacher B By the time Whitman was seventeen years old he had already worked as a printer s apprentice a compositor and a teacher G By the time Whitman was seventeen years old he had already worked as a printer s apprentice and a compositor and also worked as a teacher D By the time Whitman was seventeen years old he had already worked as a printer s apprentice as a compositor and had worked as a teacher LS shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Basic Question 09 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Eurlene Jarzembek English Mr Carter September 4 2003 Walt Whitman America s Poet 1 Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island New York Whitman received most of his education outside of the classroom His parents Walter and Louisa Whit man were uneducated but hard working people At the age of eleven he worked in a law office as an office boy where he became interested in reading He was soon reading the works of prominent authors like William Shakespeare and Homer and was well on his way to becoming one of America s most well known and endearing poets 2 By the tim
60. ag felt as if might smother Carefully making only the slightest of rustles drew the bag away from my face and took a deep breath of the night air enriched with skunk but clear and watery and cold It wasn t so bad and the skunk didn t stir at all so watched the moon caught that night in an envelope of silk a mist pass over my sleeping field of teenage guts and glory The grass harbored a sere dust both old and fresh smelled the heat of spent growth beneath the rank tone of my bag mate the stiff fragrance of damp earth and the thick pungency of newly manured fields a mile or two away along with my sleeping bag s smell slightly mil dewed forever smoky The skunk settled even closer and began to breathe rapidly its feet jerked a little like a dog s sank against the earth and fell asleep too LS shoob Photography 4 Of what easily tipped cans what molten sludge what dogs in yards on chains what leftover macaroni casseroles what cellar holes crawl spaces burrows taken from meek woodchucks of what miracles of garbage did my skunk dream Or did it since we can t be sure dream the plot of Moby Dick how to properly age Parmesan or how to restore the brick walled tumbledown creamery that was its home We don t know about the dreams of any other biota and even much about our own If dreams are an actual dimension as some assert then the usual rules of life by which we abide do not apply In tha
61. aid She makes too much steam you want to hang the monkey wrench on the safety valve 13 My uncle William used to say that a good horse was a good horse until it had run away once and that a good watch was a good watch until the repairers got a chance at it When the narrator says For half a day it would go like the very mischief and keep up such a barking and wheezing and whooping and sneezing and snorting that could not hear myself think for the disturbance he is using all of these literary devices except A onomatopoeia B simile understatement D personification Back AeA Compted sd sarm Fe shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Advanced Question 03 Read the following two selections and think about how they are alike and how they are different Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made 5 banked fires blaze No one ever thanked him I d wake and hear the cold splintering breaking When the rooms were warm he d call and slowly would rise and dress fearing the chronic angers of that house 10 Speaking indifferently to him who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well What did know what did know of love s austere and lonely offi
62. al moonshed plain or watching trout rise to the shadow of your hand on the placid surface of an Alpine lake When the skunk lets go you re surrounded by skunk presence inhabited owned involved with something you can only describe as powerfully there 6 woke at dawn stunned into that sprayed state of being The dog that had ap proached me was rolling in the grass half addled sprayed too My skunk was gone abandoned my sleeping bag and started home Up Eighth Street past the tiny blue and pink houses past my grade school past all the addresses where babysat walked in my own strange wind The streets were wide and empty met no one not a dog not a squir rel not even an early robin Perhaps they had all scattered before me blocks away had gone out to sleep on the football field because was afflicted with a sadness had to dramatize They were nothing to me now My emotions had seemed vast dark and private But they were minor mere wisps compared to skunk Skunk Dreams from THE BLUE JAY S DANCE by LOUISE ERDRICH Copyright 1995 by Louise Erdrich Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc LS shoob Photography What dramatic convention best describes both works IO O gt dialogue monologue speech aside lt Back ON SE fA sreo Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Proficie
63. ave entered all the requested information 4 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu The entry is automatically saved and the title of the CD will appear on the left side of the screen under ALL RECORDS 5 Repeat the procedure to enter additional CDs After you have made all of your entries simply hit EXIT All information you entered is saved Note All fields in the record except comments are required This means they can NOT be left blank you must enter information in each box TDA Mi Creating a New Data Record Collector s Catalog CD Organizer 1 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu File See 2 Type the title of the CD in the box below the word All Recorde TITLE A Included with your User s Manual is a booklet of colored and numbered adhesive stickers Remove the colored sticker that corresponds w ith the color code and number you assign to each CD and stick it on the hinged side of the plastic CD holder i ej shoob Photography Based on information in the bibliography Document A which of these could be consulted for a report on how compact discs were invented Keeping Pace With Consumer Demand Music Plus Digest Software Inside News The Universal Encyclopedia of Technology IO O gt Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Performance Level Proficient Question 07 The Man Who Gave Us Yellowstone by Cliff Yudell 1 On a brilliant summer afterno
64. braries have grown so has the demand for a way to organize their collections New Generation Software Company has the answer Today the company announced the release of Collector s Catalog a new user friendly software program that allows col lectors to catalog their music collections The database has the capability of maintain ing an inventory of as many as 1 000 CDs The program stores the tracking information such as record title artist category and release date that is needed to locate any CD in seconds Harrison Quaile Vice President of Marketing for New Generation explained that with Collector s Catalog an inventory can be progressively enlarged and retrieved with ease If you are a serious music collector this news should be music to your ears R Shoob Photography Bibliography American Marketing Resources Keeping Pace With Consumer Demand The Kilmartin Report Washington Capitol Hill Press 1999 Brown Jamar What s New in Software Software Inside News 1 January 2000 sec B 4 Compact Discs The Universal Encyclopedia of Technology 1998 ed Hauser Melanie Compact Disc Packaging Analysis Music Plus Digest 15 December 2000 32 Larkin Esther Not Compact Enough Solving the Music Storage Question London Choice Publications 1998 Valez Hector Working Teens as Consumers Los Angeles Victory Press 1996 Back Continue i LS shoob Photography
65. by Cathy Song On Saturdays in the morning my mother sent me to Mrs Umemoto s sewing school It was cool and airy in her basement pleasant a word choose to use years later to describe the long tables where we sat and cut pinned and stitched the Singer s companionable whirr the crisp clever bite of scissors parting like silver fish a river of calico The school was in walking distance to Kaimuki Dry Goods where my mother purchased my supplies small cards of buttons zippers and rickrack packaged like licorice lifesaver rolls of thread in fifty yard lengths spun from spools tough as tackle Seamstresses waited at the counters like librarians to be consulted Pens and scissors dangled like awkward pendants across flat chests a scarf of measuring tape flung across a shoulder timeas a pincushion bristled at the wrist They deciphered a dress s blueprints with an architect s keen eye This evidently was a sanctuary a place where women confined with children conferred consulted the oracle the stone tablets of the latest pattern books Here mothers and daughters paused in symmetry offered the proper reverence hushed murmurings for the shauntung silk which required a certain sigh i f Back Continue ce lt FR shoob Photography 36 37 38 39 40 4 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 6l 62 63 64 65 66 My mother knew there
66. called thought rhythm or parallelism in which his goal was to mimic the movement of the sea and the transitory nature of human emotion A recurrent theme in Whitman s poetry is self realization In his work Whitman deveates from conventional patterns of rhyme and meter to create a unique rhythm and a multi layered but truly American voice Continue icc LS shoob Photography 5 Although Whitman was considered a revolutionary by many there is little doubt he was fiercely patriotic Ryan 42 In his prose like verse he used slang and various personas or voices to create a sense of national unity Using a process known as skaz he also incorporated national idioms into his writing 6 For Whitman the proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it Ryan 42 Whitman has undoubtedly become a part of the cul tural history and persona of America Works Cited Adams Wesley The Many Faces of Walt Whitman London Bungalow Publishing 1998 Moseley Carrie Walt Whitman A Poet for All Time New York Standard Books 2002 Ryan Tom Whitman An American Voice Chicago Noland 1999 Stevens Constance Stylistic Innovations in the Poetry of Walt Whitman Poetry Today 12 2000 27 37 Read this sentence from paragraph 2 of the report By the time Whitman was seventeen years old he had already worked as a printer s apprentice worked as a compositor and a te
67. ceeded to set it for me Then he said She is four minutes slow regulator wants pushing up 3 tried to stop him tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time But no all this human cabbage could see was that the watch was four minutes slow and the regulator must be pushed up a little and so while danced around him in anguish and implored him to let the watch alone he calmly and cruelly did the shameful deed 4 My watch began to gain It gained faster and faster day by day Within the week it sickened to a raging fever and its pulse went up to a hundred and fifty in the shade At the end of two months it had left all the timepieces of the town far in the rear and was a fraction over thirteen days ahead of the almanac It was away into November enjoying the snow while the October leaves were still turning It hurried up house rent bills payable and such things in such a ruinous way that could not abide it took it to the watchmaker to be regulated 5 After being cleaned and oiled and regulated my watch slowed down to that degree that it ticked like a tolling bell began to be left by trains failed all appoint ments got to missing my dinner went to a watchmaker again lt LS shoob Photography 6 He took the watch all to pieces while waited and then said the barrel was swelled He said he could reduce it in three days After this the watch averaged well but nothing m
68. ces Those Winter Sundays Copyright 1966 by Robert Hayden from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden by Robert Hayden edited by Frederick Glaysher Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation i LS shoob Photography CONA OaBKWDN WWWWWNHNNNNNNNNN gt 2 gt O RwWN DOD NODAOAN A A KWH OYNWVSVONO A AOAAR ON O The Grammar of Silk by Cathy Song On Saturdays in the morning my mother sent me to Mrs Umemoto s sewing school It was cool and airy in her basement pleasant a word choose to use years later to describe the long tables where we sat and cut pinned and stitched the Singer s companionable whirr the crisp clever bite of scissors parting like silver fish a river of calico The school was in walking distance to Kaimuki Dry Goods where my mother purchased my supplies small cards of buttons zippers and rickrack packaged like licorice lifesaver rolls of thread in fifty yard lengths spun from spools tough as tackle Seamstresses waited at the counters like librarians to be consulted Pens and scissors dangled like awkward pendants across flat chests a scarf of measuring tape flung across a shoulder timeas a pincushion bristled at the wrist They deciphered a dress s blueprints with an architect s keen eye This evidently was a sanctuary a place where women confined with children conferred consulted the oracle the ston
69. citor s Catafug your __ L r cataloging m a Catalan Cataiog It s no puzzle why Collector s Catalog 39 is America s 1 choice Document B or 3 Use the TAB key to move from one field to the next until you have entered all the requested information 4 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu The entry is automatically saved and the title of the CD will appear on the left side of the screen under ALL RECORDS 5 Repeat the procedure to enter additional CDs After you have made all of your entries simply hit EXIT All information you entered is saved Note All fields in the record except comments are required This means they can NOT be left blank you must enter information in each box TDA Mi Creating a New Data Record Collector s Catalog CD Organizer 1 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu File See 2 Type the title of the CD in the box below the word All Recorde TITLE A Included with your User s Manual is a booklet of colored and numbered adhesive stickers Remove the colored sticker that corresponds w ith the color code and number you assign to each CD and stick it on the hinged side of the plastic CD holder i SJ shoob Photography In the bibliography Document A 15 December 2000 32 is an abbreviated way of noting the issue and page number delivery date and version number number of issues each year publisher s authorization code IO O
70. col lectors to catalog their music collections The database has the capability of maintain ing an inventory of as many as 1 000 CDs The program stores the tracking information such as record title artist category and release date that is needed to locate any CD in seconds Harrison Quaile Vice President of Marketing for New Generation explained that with Collector s Catalog an inventory can be progressively enlarged and retrieved with ease If you are a serious music collector this news should be music to your ears R Shoob Photography Bibliography American Marketing Resources Keeping Pace With Consumer Demand The Kilmartin Report Washington Capitol Hill Press 1999 Brown Jamar What s New in Software Software Inside News 1 January 2000 sec B 4 Compact Discs The Universal Encyclopedia of Technology 1998 ed Hauser Melanie Compact Disc Packaging Analysis Music Plus Digest 15 December 2000 32 Larkin Esther Not Compact Enough Solving the Music Storage Question London Choice Publications 1998 Valez Hector Working Teens as Consumers Los Angeles Victory Press 1996 Document A on Back Continue ce i SJ shoob Photography Solving the Organizati on Puzzle _ Collector s Catalog is the hottest new database 3 a B L see software program fo y oe wae classifying and managing SPR i _ C gt compact disc collections
71. collection of poems Leaves of Grass was so unusual that no commercial publisher would print the work In 1855 Whitman published at his own expense the first edition of his collection of twelve poems 4 Whitman s poetic style was uncommon in the sense that he wrote poems in a form called thought rhythm or parallelism in which his goal was to mimic the movement of the sea and the transitory nature of human emotion A recurrent theme in Whitman s poetry is self realization In his work Whitman deveates from conventional patterns of rhyme and meter to create a unique rhythm and a multi layered but truly American voice lt FR shoob Photography 5 Although Whitman was considered a revolutionary by many there is little doubt he was fiercely patriotic Ryan 42 In his prose like verse he used slang and various personas or voices to create a sense of national unity Using a process known as skaz he also incorporated national idioms into his writing 6 For Whitman the proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it Ryan 42 Whitman has undoubtedly become a part of the cul tural history and persona of America Works Cited Adams Wesley The Many Faces of Walt Whitman London Bungalow Publishing 1998 Moseley Carrie Walt Whitman A Poet for All Time New York Standard Books 2002 Ryan Tom Whitman An American Voice Chicago Noland 1999 Stevens Constance S
72. de gree 11 Although Howard was primarily a playwright he was also a screenwriter 12 He wrote the screenplay for the film classic Gone With the Wind for which he won an Academy Award Continue icc i LS shoob Photography Which sentence could best be inserted between sentences 7 and 8 to maintain coherence It s difficult for most teenagers to be confined to bed This event affected his life in at least two important ways don t know much about this disease but it was common in those days The circumstances surrounding his illness are not important lO O gt S27 S shoo Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Basic Question 06 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors The Beginnings of the Globe 1 Everyone knows that the Globe Theater is a cool place 2 In 1996 it was voted the best attraction in Europe however this version of the Globe completed in the mid 1990s with funds from the Shakespeare Globe Playhouse Trust is not the original Globe built in the 1500s 3 During the 16th century plays were popular entertainment among all kinds of people from the wealthy nobles to the working class 4 Queen Elizabeth of England had a great love for the arts music poetry dance and plays 5 Actors performed in inns throughout the countryside and in London 6 James Burbage an act
73. de 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Basic Question 05 The following is a rough draft of a student s essay It contains errors Sidney Coe Howard The Rewards of Perseverance 1 Sidney Coe Howard a native of Oakland California enjoyed a career as a writer winning both a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award 2 Despite these later achievements Howard initially found that recognition of his work did not come easily 3 Howard s first play They Knew What They Wanted was submitted to sixteen producers before one finally agreed to put it on the stage 4 Not only was the play successful it also won a Pulitzer Prize for excellence and was later made into a movie 5 If Howard had not believed in himself and his play if he had not persevered until failure became success he might of given up and pursued a different career 6 Howard gt instead became one of the most respected play wrights of the 1920s and 1930s 7 When he was a teenager Howard had tuberculosis a very serious illness that led to a long hospitalization 8 It is likely that as an adult Howard persisted in submitting his play refusing to give up in spite of rejection because he already knew how to face and overcome adversity 9 In addition Howard made use of the time of illness and recovery by practicing his writing 10 He went to the University of California and then to Harvard after he got well where he earned a master s
74. distinguished career she designed many beautiful homes schools hospitals and community centers Though Morgan faced many chal lenges on her way to becoming an architect she overcame them all 2 Morgan hoped to study architecture in college but the University of California at Berkeley which she began attending at the age of 18 did not have an architecture school Morgan majored in civil engineering instead but she held on to her dream of designing buildings After she graduated friends urged her to apply to the L Ecole des Beaux Arts a famous architecture school in Paris 3 The 22 year old Morgan sailed for Paris full of hope and excitement This must have made it all the more crushing when school authorities told Morgan that women were not allowed to take the entrance examinations Morgan refused to give up how ever She began to study French to prepare for the exam In 1897 the school finally decided to let women take the entrance exams and Morgan took the exam for the first time She did well but did not place in the top thirty the school s requirement for admittance After taking the test twice more Morgan finally gained admittance to the L Ecole des Beaux Arts Which of these does Kevin use in paragraph 3 to develop the idea that Morgan had to overcome many challenges A a diagram B a scenario C a hypothesis D an aside lt LS shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategi
75. dresses where babysat walked in my own strange wind The streets were wide and empty met no one not a dog not a squirrel not even an early robin Perhaps they had all scattered before me blocks away had gone out to sleep on the football field because was afflicted with a sadness had to dramatize They were nothing to me now My emotions had seemed vast dark and private But they were minor mere wisps compared to skunk Skunk Dreams from THE BLUE JAY S DANCE by LOUISE ERDRICH Copyright 1995 by Louise Erdrich Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc LS shoob Photography What character trait does the speaker in Baylor s poem reveal about herself when she says put myself in charge choose my own A self reliance B honesty compassion D self destructiveness Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Focus on Informational Materials Performance Level Advanced Question 01 Read these three documents and answer the questions that follow Document A FitQuest 2000 Your Home Fitness Solution 1 the price of comparable models 3 a ered Ja hata Look Great imited Time Offer Feel Better Live Longer The Number 1 Get started now for that summer body you ve always dreamed about Home Gym Strength training will not only improve your physical appearance it will increase your energy and help y
76. duced with a raised trunk 11 Elephants are animals that love to chatter when they are around each other 12 A purring vibration can indicate pleasure when two meet 13 On the other hand their throats let out a rumbling sound when they are in pain 14 Elephants are constantly in contact with one another through infrasound even over long dis tances 15 Infrasounds are sounds we can t hear that animals make which causes a vibration in the air 16 Humans are unable to hear the sounds because the frequen cies are too low 17 If strong enough the frequencies can be felt physically lt LS shoob Photography Which of the following words from the report is not spelled correctly A magnificent B outstreched entwining D physically Back ee 7 LQ shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Advanced Question 02 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors The Beginnings of the Globe 1 Everyone knows that the Globe Theater is a cool place 2 In 1996 it was voted the best attraction in Europe however this version of the Globe completed in the mid 1990s with funds from the Shakespeare Globe Playhouse Trust is not the original Globe built in the 1500s 3 During the 16th century plays were popular entertainment among all kinds of people from the wealthy nobles to t
77. e artist category and release date that is needed to locate any CD in seconds Harrison Quaile Vice President of Marketing for New Generation explained that with Collector s Catalog an inventory can be progressively enlarged and retrieved with ease If you are a serious music collector this news should be music to your ears pora R Shoob Photography Bibliography American Marketing Resources Keeping Pace With Consumer Demand The Kilmartin Report Washington Capitol Hill Press 1999 Brown Jamar What s New in Software Software Inside News 1 January 2000 sec B 4 Compact Discs The Universal Encyclopedia of Technology 1998 ed Hauser Melanie Compact Disc Packaging Analysis Music Plus Digest 15 December 2000 32 Larkin Esther Not Compact Enough Solving the Music Storage Question London Choice Publications 1998 Valez Hector Working Teens as Consumers Los Angeles Victory Press 1996 Document A Back Continue N lt a Le shoob Photography Solving the Organizati on Puzzle _ Collector s Catalog is the hottest new database 3 a B L see software program fo y oe wae classifying and managing SPR i _ C gt compact disc collections a Imagine No more digging through E a boxes or stacks of CDs to find what you Sa a re entire collection is just a mouse click away Collector s j want With Coffe
78. e Whitman was seventeen years old he had already worked as a printer s apprentice worked as a compositor and a teacher Despite his aversion to teaching he excelled in the profession developing an amicable relationship with his students he even allowed them to address him by his first name He also developed fresh teaching techniques and learning games to help his students with spelling and arithmetic In his early twenties however he gave up teaching to pursue a full time career as a journalist and poet 3 When Walt Whitman first emerged as a poet his arrival onto the American liter ary scene was met with controversy His first collection of poems Leaves of Grass was so unusual that no commercial publisher would print the work In 1855 Whitman published at his own expense the first edition of his collection of twelve poems 4 Whitman s poetic style was uncommon in the sense that he wrote poems in a form called thought rhythm or parallelism in which his goal was to mimic the movement of the sea and the transitory nature of human emotion A recurrent theme in Whitman s poetry is self realization In his work Whitman deveates from conventional patterns of rhyme and meter to create a unique rhythm and a multi layered but truly American voice Continue ceca LS shoob Photography 5 Although Whitman was considered a revolutionary by many there is little doubt he was fiercely patriotic Ryan 42 In his prose li
79. e in the park So do larger ones like foxes coyotes badgers bobcats mountain lions deer and bighorn sheep The burro and the horse while not native species also survive and thrive in Death Valley There is an even more surprising fact there are fish in Death Valley They live in the park s springs streams and ponds Continue a LS shoob Photography Read this sentence In spite of the name of the park and its hard climatic conditions Death Valley is alive Which word would best replace the underlined word to make the meaning more pre cise A severe B demanding C ruthless D serious S27 fA Shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Basic Question 02 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Sylvia Hernandez Mrs Woods Geography 101 January 10 2003 Life in Death Valley 1 Death Valley in southeastern California is the hottest driest place in North America and one of the hottest places known in the world The highest temperature ever recorded in the valley was 134 Fahrenheit and the temperature routinely reaches 115 in July That is way too amazingly hot for me Parts of Death Valley receive fewer than two inches of rain in an entire year This extremely low rainfall is caused by the rainshadow effect 2 Death Valley National Park is either 3 367 628 acres or 3 396 192 acres dependi
80. e of celebrations rinted with the permission of Atheneum Books for Young Readers an apani of simon amp Schuster Childr i Publishing Division from l m in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor Copyrig 35 40 45 50 55 Sometimes they don t believe me 60 but it s true lam put myself in charge 65 choose my own Last year gave myself one hundred and eight 70 celebrations besides the ones that they close school for cannot get by with only 75 a few Friend l Il tell you how it works keep a notebook and I write the date 80 and then I write about the celebration l m very choosy over what goes in that book Dume zr Rer Shoob Photography It has to be something plan to remember the rest of my life You can tell what s worth a celebration because your heart will POUND and you ll feel like you re standing on top of a mountain and you ll catch your breath like you were breathing some new kind of air Otherwise count it just an average day I told you was choosy Skunk Dreams by Louise Erdrich 1 When was fourteen slept alone on a North Dakota football field under cold stars on an early September night Fall progresses swiftly in the Red River Valley and happened to hit a night when frost formed in the grass A skunk trailed a plume of steam across the forty yard line near moonrise tucked the top of my sleep i
81. e of America s most well known and endearing poets 2 By the time Whitman was seventeen years old he had already worked as a printer s apprentice worked as a compositor and a teacher Despite his aversion to teaching he excelled in the profession developing an amicable relationship with his students he even allowed them to address him by his first name He also developed fresh teaching techniques and learning games to help his students with spelling and arithmetic In his early twenties however he gave up teaching to pursue a full time career as a journalist and poet 3 When Walt Whitman first emerged as a poet his arrival onto the American liter ary scene was met with controversy His first collection of poems Leaves of Grass was so unusual that no commercial publisher would print the work In 1855 Whitman published at his own expense the first edition of his collection of twelve poems 4 Whitman s poetic style was uncommon in the sense that he wrote poems in a form called thought rhythm or parallelism in which his goal was to mimic the movement of the sea and the transitory nature of human emotion A recurrent theme in Whitman s poetry is self realization In his work Whitman deveates from conventional patterns of rhyme and meter to create a unique rhythm and a multi layered but truly American voice Continue ceca LS shoob Photography 5 Although Whitman was considered a revolutionary by many there i
82. e proper reverence hushed murmurings for the shauntung silk which required a certain sigh lt Back Continue c lt FR shoob Photography 36 37 38 39 40 4 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 6l 62 63 64 65 66 My mother knew there would be no shortcuts and headed for the remnants the leftover bundles with yardage enough for a heart shaped pillow a child s dirndl a blouse without darts Along the aisles my fingertips touched the titles satin tulle velvet peach lavender pistachio sherbet colored linings and settled for the plain brown and white composition of polka dots on kettle cloth my mother held up in triumph She was determined that should sew as if she knew what she herself was missing a moment when she could have come up for air the children asleep the dishes drying on the rack and turned on the lamp and pulled back the curtain of sleep To inhabit the night the night as a black cloth white paper a sheet of music in which she might find herself singing On Saturdays at Mrs Umemoto s sewing school when took my place beside the other girls bent my head and went to work my foot keeping time on the pedal it was to learn the charitable oblivion of hand and mind as one a refuge such music affords the maker the pleasure of notes in perfectly measured time The Grammar of Silk is from School Fi
83. e tablets of the latest pattern books Here mothers and daughters paused in symmetry offered the proper reverence hushed murmurings for the shauntung silk which required a certain sigh i f Back Continue ce lt FR shoob Photography 36 37 38 39 40 4 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 6l 62 63 64 65 66 My mother knew there would be no shortcuts and headed for the remnants the leftover bundles with yardage enough for a heart shaped pillow a child s dirndl a blouse without darts Along the aisles my fingertips touched the titles satin tulle velvet peach lavender pistachio sherbet colored linings and settled for the plain brown and white composition of polka dots on kettle cloth my mother held up in triumph She was determined that should sew as if she knew what she herself was missing a moment when she could have come up for air the children asleep the dishes drying on the rack and turned on the lamp and pulled back the curtain of sleep To inhabit the night the night as a black cloth white paper a sheet of music in which she might find herself singing On Saturdays at Mrs Umemoto s sewing school when took my place beside the other girls bent my head and went to work my foot keeping time on the pedal it was to learn the charitable oblivion of hand and mind as one a refuge such music affords the maker
84. e top of my sleep ing bag over my head and was just dozing off when the skunk walked onto me with simple authority 2 Its ripe Odor must have dissipated in the heavy summer grass and ditch weeds because it didn t smell all that bad or perhaps it was just that took shallow breaths in numb surprise felt him her whatever pause on the side of my hip and turn around twice before evidently deciding was a good place to sleep At the back of my knees on the quilting of my sleeping bag it trod out a spot for itself and then with a serene little groan curled up and lay perfectly still That made two of us was wildly awake trying to forget the sharpness and number of skunk teeth trying not to think of the high percentage of skunks with rabies 3 Inside the bag felt as if might smother Carefully making only the slightest of rustles drew the bag away from my face and took a deep breath of the night air enriched with skunk but clear and watery and cold It wasn t so bad and the skunk didn t stir at all so watched the moon caught that night in an envelope of silk a mist pass over my sleeping field of teenage guts and glory The grass harbored a sere dust both old and fresh smelled the heat of spent growth beneath the rank tone of my bag mate the stiff fragrance of damp earth and the thick pungency of newly manured fields a mile or two away along with my sleeping bag s smell slightly mil dewed forever smoky
85. e up their language including the rumbling sound produced in the larynx and the high pitched trumpet like sound produced with a raised trunk 11 Elephants are animals that love to chatter when they are around each other 12 A purring vibration can indicate pleasure when two meet 13 On the other hand their throats let out a rumbling sound when they are in pain 14 Elephants are constantly in contact with one another through infrasound even over long dis tances 15 Infrasounds are sounds we can t hear that animals make which causes a vibration in the air 16 Humans are unable to hear the sounds because the frequen cies are too low 17 If strong enough the frequencies can be felt physically Continue PONN azr fR snoop Photography Which of the following is the correct way to punctuate sentence 8 lO O b gt They recognize one another by sight smell and voice They recognize one another by sight smell and voice They recognize one another by sight smell and voice They recognize one another by sight smell and voice S Shroot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Basic Question 04 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Sylvia Hernandez Mrs Woods Geography 101 January 10 2003 Life in Death Valley 1 Death Valley in southeastern California is the hottest driest place
86. e visual reality of this stunning region 10 One team however was led by Ferdinand V Hayden a former Union Army surgeon who had tremendous enthusiasm for both scientific discovery and natural beauty Hayden possessed one important skill that the other team leaders lacked he was adept at political lobbying Hayden s goal was not merely to issue technical reports but to excite public imagination to popularize the West and make it acces sible 11 Hayden knew it would take a landscape painter of enormous talent even ge nius to show Congress what he himself had seen At the suggestion of Northern Pacific Railroad financier Jay Cooke who had seen Moran s sketches in Scribner s Hayden took along the young artist Cooke and Scribner s each put up 500 to finance Mo ran s journey 12 With his small carpetbag stuffed full of clothing and art materials Moran went into the wilderness He was so thin he had to put a pillow beneath him on the saddle but he still couldn t ride without pain on Back Continue ae ca FR shoob Photography 13 The trip proved worthwhile however Finally reaching the foothills of Yellow stone s Mount Washburn Moran was dazzled by the deep greens of ancient pines and the aspens that seemed to steal color from the sun As he approached the Yel lowstone River s Lower Falls he was astounded by copper stained boulders and yellow sulfur springs only to see them upstaged by the violent blues of cascadin
87. ead or tail of the time of day by such a watch and so went again to have the thing repaired 9 This person said that the crystal had got bent and that the mainspring was not straight He also remarked that part of the works needed half soling He made these things all right and then my timepiece performed unexceptionably save that now and then after working along quietly for nearly eight hours everything inside would let go all of a sudden and begin to buzz like a bee and the hands would straightway begin to spin round and round so fast that their individuality was lost completely and they simply seemed a delicate spider s web over the face of the watch She would reel off the next twenty four hours in six or seven minutes and then stop with a bang 10 I went with a heavy heart to one more watchmaker and looked on while he took her to pieces Then prepared to cross question him rigidly for this thing was get ting serious The watch had cost two hundred dollars originally and seemed to have paid out two or three thousand for repairs azar LQ shoot Photography 11 While waited and looked on I presently recognized in this watchmaker an old acquaintance a steamboat engineer of other days and not a good engineer ei ther He examined all the parts carefully just as the other watchmakers had done and then delivered his verdict with the same confidence of manner 12 He said She makes too much steam y
88. eamery that was its home We don t know about the dreams of any other biota and even much about our own If dreams are an actual dimension as some assert then the usual rules of life by which we abide do not apply In that place skunks may certainly dream of themselves into the vests of stockbrokers Perhaps that night the skunk and dreamed each other s thoughts or are still dreaming them To paraphrase the problem of the Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu may be a woman who has dreamed herself a skunk or a skunk still dreaming that she is a woman 5 Skunks don t mind each other s vile perfume Obviously they find each other more than tolerable And even who have been in the presence of a direct skunk hit wouldn t classify their weapon as mere smell It is more on the order of a reality enhancing experience It s not so pleasant as standing in a grove of old growth ce dars or on a lyrical moonshed plain or watching trout rise to the shadow of your hand on the placid surface of an Alpine lake When the skunk lets go you re surrounded by skunk presence inhabited owned involved with something you can only describe as powerfully there 6 woke at dawn stunned into that sprayed state of being The dog that had ap proached me was rolling in the grass half addled sprayed too My skunk was gone abandoned my sleeping bag and started home Up Eighth Street past the tiny blue and pink houses past my grade school past all the ad
89. eas lO O gt S Shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Basic Question 03 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Sylvia Hernandez Mrs Woods Geography 101 January 10 2003 Life in Death Valley 1 Death Valley in southeastern California is the hottest driest place in North America and one of the hottest places known in the world The highest temperature ever recorded in the valley was 134 Fahrenheit and the temperature routinely reaches 115 in July That is way too amazingly hot for me Parts of Death Valley receive fewer than two inches of rain in an entire year This extremely low rainfall is caused by the rainshadow effect 2 Death Valley National Park is either 3 367 628 acres or 3 396 192 acres depending on which source you believe The park includes the valley itself and the surrounding mountains In spite of the name of the park and its hard climatic conditions Death Valley is alive More than 970 types of plants grow there including not only cactus but also grasses shrubs and even trees like juniper pine and mesquite Most of the trees grow in the mountains where the air is cooler and there is more water 3 The park is alive with birds reptiles and amphibians too Most are nocturnal There are scores of bird species as well as many reptiles and a few amphibians Tortoises lizards and snakes includ
90. ease consult the User s Manual for maintenance and care instructions FitQuest ee shall not be liable for shipping or packaging charges to or from the factory for ae returned items To obtain service contact the FitQuest Customer Service Depart may MENT at the number provided in the User s Guide Users can also write with ques x tions to FitQuest Inc Customer Service P O Box 1800 Oceanside CA 90000 lt LS shoob Photography FitQuest 30 Day Money Back Guarantee All FitQuest products come with a 30 day money back guarantee less all freight charges Returns should be made in the original box Please include a copy of the original sales receipt with the date of purchase clearly marked Make sure that all parts are returned with the machine Please attach a letter detailing any damage It is requested that you also provide an explanation of why you were dissatisfied with the machine This information is optional and will be used by FitQuest only to improve our products According to Document C the FitQuest warranty does not include machines which have a manufacturing defect machines that fail structurally during normal usage failures caused by unreasonable or abusive use parts cables or labor costs for repairs IO O gt lt Back n Compted and oe LS shoo Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Focus on Informational Materials Performance Level P
91. ed and magnificent land animals in the world Living peacefully with other creatures is easy for elephants because despite their powerful strength they do not abuse their power and they carefully avoid harming other creatures Elephants live together easily Because they communicate well with each other Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Basic Question 03 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Communicating with a Giant 1 Elephants are known as one of the most respected and magnificent land animals in the world 2 Living peacefully with other creatures is easy for elephants be cause despite their powerful strength they do not abuse their power and they care fully avoid harming other creatures 3 Elephants live together easily 4 Because they communicate well with each other 5 Just like people elephants use body language and sound to communicate easily with one another 6 The positions of an elephant s trunk ears and head communicate 7 When an elephant s ears are outstreched and the head is high it is showing signs of a threat which indicates to smaller elephants that they should move away 8 They recognize one another by sight smell and voice 9 Greetings to one another are communicat ed between two elephants by entwining their trunks and touching cheeks 10 A variety of sounds mak
92. ed half soling He made these things all right and then my timepiece performed unexceptionably save that now and then after working along quietly for nearly eight hours everything inside would let go all of a sudden and begin to buzz like a bee and the hands would straightway begin to spin round and round so fast that their individuality was lost completely and they simply seemed a delicate spider s web over the face of the watch She would reel off the next twenty four hours in six or seven minutes and then stop with a bang 10 I went with a heavy heart to one more watchmaker and looked on while he took her to pieces Then prepared to cross question him rigidly for this thing was get ting serious The watch had cost two hundred dollars originally and seemed to have paid out two or three thousand for repairs nm Back Continue ee azar LQ shoot Photography 11 While waited and looked on I presently recognized in this watchmaker an old acquaintance a steamboat engineer of other days and not a good engineer ei ther He examined all the parts carefully just as the other watchmakers had done and then delivered his verdict with the same confidence of manner 12 He said She makes too much steam you want to hang the monkey wrench on the safety valve 13 My uncle Wiliam used to say that a good horse was a good horse until it had run away once and that a good watch was a good watch until the repairers go
93. eed 4 My watch began to gain It gained faster and faster day by day Within the week it sickened to a raging fever and its pulse went up to a hundred and fifty in the shade At the end of two months it had left all the timepieces of the town far in the rear and was a fraction over thirteen days ahead of the almanac It was away into November enjoying the snow while the October leaves were still turning It hurried up house rent bills payable and such things in such a ruinous way that could not abide it took it to the watchmaker to be regulated 5 After being cleaned and oiled and regulated my watch slowed down to that degree that it ticked like a tolling bell began to be left by trains failed all appoint ments got to missing my dinner went to a watchmaker again Continue ee LS shoob Photography 6 He took the watch all to pieces while waited and then said the barrel was swelled He said he could reduce it in three days After this the watch averaged well but nothing more For half a day it would go like the very mischief and keep up such a barking and wheezing and whooping and sneezing and snorting that could not hear myself think for the disturbance and as long as it held out there was not a watch in the land that stood any chance against it But the rest of the day it would keep on slowing down and fooling along until all the clocks it had left behind caught up again So at las
94. eep a notebook and I write the date 80 and then I write about the celebration l m very choosy over what goes in that book Dume za ise Shoob Photography It has to be something plan to remember the rest of my life You can tell what s worth a celebration because your heart will POUND and you ll feel like you re standing on top of a mountain and you ll catch your breath like you were breathing some new kind of air Otherwise count it just an average day I told you was choosy Skunk Dreams by Louise Erdrich 1 When was fourteen slept alone on a North Dakota football field under cold stars on an early September night Fall progresses swiftly in the Red River Valley and happened to hit a night when frost formed in the grass A skunk trailed a plume of steam across the forty yard line near moonrise tucked the top of my sleep ing bag over my head and was just dozing off when the skunk walked onto me with simple authority 2 Its ripe Odor must have dissipated in the heavy summer grass and ditch weeds because it didn t smell all that bad or perhaps it was just that took shallow breaths in numb surprise felt him her whatever pause on the side of my hip and turn around twice before evidently deciding was a good place to sleep At the back of my knees on the quilting of my sleeping bag it trod out a spot for itself and then with a serene little groan curled up and la
95. en Walt Whitman first emerged as a poet his arrival onto the American liter ary scene was met with controversy His first collection of poems Leaves of Grass was so unusual that no commercial publisher would print the work In 1855 Whitman published at his own expense the first edition of his collection of twelve poems 4 Whitman s poetic style was uncommon in the sense that he wrote poems in a form called thought rhythm or parallelism in which his goal was to mimic the movement of the sea and the transitory nature of human emotion A recurrent theme in Whitman s poetry is self realization In his work Whitman deveates from conventional patterns of rhyme and meter to create a unique rhythm and a multi layered but truly American voice Continue icc LS shoob Photography 5 Although Whitman was considered a revolutionary by many there is little doubt he was fiercely patriotic Ryan 42 In his prose like verse he used slang and various personas or voices to create a sense of national unity Using a process known as skaz he also incorporated national idioms into his writing 6 For Whitman the proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it Ryan 42 Whitman has undoubtedly become a part of the cul tural history and persona of America Works Cited Adams Wesley The Many Faces of Walt Whitman London Bungalow Publishing 1998 Moseley Carrie Walt Whitman A Poet for
96. erything you can think of in a home gym and its 58 exercises are almost double that offered by the FitQuest or Bodyworks Il machines The Home Training System provides a genuine workout that nearly rivals what could be achieved at commercial fitness gyms However this is a gym for someone with plenty of time for training Changing exercise positions on this machine is cumbersome and sometimes more of a workout than the exercises themselves It required almost two hours to assemble It is bulky and would only be considered portable by Arnold Schwarzenegger maybe Bottom line this is a good machine but if you ve got this much time and money join a gym ea Back contnve LE I LS shoob Photography Document B continued Bodyworks II Rank 3 Price 129 Available Most department stores The Bodyworks II claims to offer a superb workout in just a half hour Well not exactly The machine the least expensive of the three did provide a good workout Its 35 posi tions were slightly more than the FitQuest though less than the Home Training System It also came unassembled but was not as difficult to put together as the Home Training System Though some of the exercises were a bit awkward none seemed dangerous Changing positions however was somewhat difficult and seemed to make a 30 min ute workout unlikely unless limited to three or four exercises Though the machine is not bulky and can easily fit under a bed it is heavy
97. es Performance Level Proficient Question 05 Kevin s teacher asked her students to write about someone who overcame obstacles and became a success Below is Kevin s rough draft which may contain errors Julia Morgan Distinguished Architect 1 Julia Morgan California s first woman architect and the designer of Hearst Castle was a true pioneer During her long distinguished career she designed many beautiful homes schools hospitals and community centers Though Morgan faced many chal lenges on her way to becoming an architect she overcame them all 2 Morgan hoped to study architecture in college but the University of California at Berkeley which she began attending at the age of 18 did not have an architecture school Morgan majored in civil engineering instead but she held on to her dream of designing buildings After she graduated friends urged her to apply to the L Ecole des Beaux Arts a famous architecture school in Paris 3 The 22 year old Morgan sailed for Paris full of hope and excitement This must have made it all the more crushing when school authorities told Morgan that women were not allowed to take the entrance examinations Morgan refused to give up how ever She began to study French to prepare for the exam In 1897 the school finally decided to let women take the entrance exams and Morgan took the exam for the first time She did well but did not place in the top thirty the school s requirement for admit
98. f the night air enriched with skunk but clear and watery and cold It wasn t so bad and the skunk didn t stir at all so watched the moon caught that night in an envelope of silk a mist pass over my sleeping field of teenage guts and glory The grass harbored a sere dust both old and fresh smelled the heat of soent growth beneath the rank tone of my bag mate the stiff fragrance of damp earth and the thick pungency of newly manured fields a mile or two away along with my sleeping bag s smell slightly mil dewed forever smoky The skunk settled even closer and began to breathe rapidly its feet jerked a little like a dog s sank against the earth and fell asleep too on Back contnve E gt eee SJ shoob Photography 4 Of what easily tipped cans what molten sludge what dogs in yards on chains what leftover macaroni casseroles what cellar holes crawl spaces burrows taken from meek woodchucks of what miracles of garbage did my skunk dream Or did it since we can t be sure dream the plot of Moby Dick how to properly age Parmesan or how to restore the brick walled tumbledown creamery that was its home We don t know about the dreams of any other biota and even much about our own If dreams are an actual dimension as some assert then the usual rules of life by which we abide do not apply In that place skunks may certainly dream of themselves into the vests of stockbrokers Perhaps that night the skunk and
99. g 1994 Reprinted by permission of the Uni versity of Pittsburgh Press Compted ard oe LS shoob Photography Which universal theme is addressed in both poems As they grow older children become disillusioned by their surroundings Children are to be seen and not heard As they grow older children often come to admire their parents Children are responsible for themselves lO O gt Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Proficient Question 09 Read the following two selections and think about how they are alike and how they are different Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made 5 banked fires blaze No one ever thanked him I d wake and hear the cold splintering breaking When the rooms were warm he d call and slowly would rise and dress fearing the chronic angers of that house 10 Speaking indifferently to him who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well What did know what did know of love s austere and lonely offices Those Winter Sundays Copyright 1966 by Robert Hayden from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden by Robert Hayden edited by Frederick Glaysher Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation i LS shoob Photography CONA O
100. g to me now My emotions had seemed vast dark and private But they were minor mere wisps compared to skunk Skunk Dreams from THE BLUE JAY S DANCE by LOUISE ERDRICH Copyright 1995 by Louise Erdrich Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc LS shoob Photography How would the narrator of I m in Charge of Celebrations likely react if he or she experienced what the narrator of Skunk Dreams experienced A He would consider it another cause for celebration B He would be even more upset C He would be embarrassed and never admit that he had been sprayed by a skunk D He would be concerned for the skunk and he would try to keep it as a pet Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Proficient Question 03 My Watch An Instructive Little Tale by Mark Twain 1 My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping had come to believe it infal lible in its judgments about the time of day and to consider its anatomy imperishable But at last one night let it run down grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity But by and by cheered up set the watch by guess 2 Next day stepped into the chief jeweler s to set it by the exact time and the head of the establishment took it out of my hand and pro
101. g waters 14 Back in Philadelphia after the expedition Moran was eager to communicate the profound experience of Yellowstone He spent months at his easel often painting into the night the only light coming from flickering gas lamps I have always held that the grandest most beautiful or wonderful in nature would in capable hands make the grandest most beautiful or wonderful pictures the artist later wrote If fail to prove this fail to prove myself worthy of the name painter 15 Thomas Moran proved himself more than worthy His Grand Canyon of the Yel lowstone a monumental seven by 12 foot oil painting is one of the finest landscapes in 19th century American art 16 While Moran worked in his studio Hayden knocked on Congressional doors With expedition photos and Moran s vivid field sketches in hand Hayden had an arsenal of visual ammunition to push forward the park legislation 17 By March 1 1872 when President Ulysses S Grant signed the bill Yellowstone had been described in the Congressional debates not as an unfriendly underworld place but as a pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people Curious to discover the West they had previously sourned even feared thousands of Americans traveled there to experience its awe inspiring beauty Congress echoed this enthusiasm by purchasing Moran s Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone for display in the Capitol 18 With his reputation la
102. gures by Cathy Song 1994 Reprinted by permission of the Uni versity of Pittsburgh Press Compted ard oe LS shoob Photography Read this sentence from lines 27 30 of The Grammar of Silk This evidently was a sanctuary a place where women confined with children conferred consulted the oracle the stone tablets of the latest pattern books What is the meaning of the phrase the stone tablets of the latest pattern books The pattern books at that store look as if they are made of stone The pattern books are regarded as objects of great authority The pattern books have been passed down through the generations The pattern books are so thick that they are difficult to carry IO O gt on Back n lt a Fe shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Proficient Question 01 20 25 30 Pub l m in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor Sometimes people ask me Aren t you lonely out there with just desert around you guess they mean the beargrass and the yuccas and the cactus and the rocks guess they mean the deep ravines and the hawk nests in the cliffs and the coyote trails that wind across the hills Lonely can t help laughing when they ask me that always look at them surprised And say How could be lonely I m the one in charg
103. h he won an Academy Award Continue ceca LS shoob Photography Read this sentence He went to the University of California and then to Harvard after he got well where he earned a master s degree What is the best way to rewrite the sentence to improve the placement of modifiers A After he got well he went to the University of California and then to Harvard where he earned a master s degree B He went to the University of California and then to Harvard where he earned a master s degree after he got well He went after he got well to the University of California and then to Harvard where he earned a master s degree D To the University of California he went and then to Harvard where he earned after he got well a master s degree Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Proficient Question 07 The following is a rough draft of a student s essay It contains errors The Excitement of Murals 1 The name Los Tres Grandes or The Big Three refers to three artists who start ed the first major modern art movement that began outside of Europe 2 When peo ple think of art they frequently think of European countries like Italy Spain and France 3 They think of Michelangelo Monet and Picasso 4 Mexico however should also be mentioned in the same breath thanks to the following artists Diego Rivera Jos
104. h the same confidence of manner 12 He said She makes too much steam you want to hang the monkey wrench on the safety valve 13 My uncle Wiliam used to say that a good horse was a good horse until it had run away once and that a good watch was a good watch until the repairers got a chance at it In the last paragraph the narrator references what his uncle William said in order to show that he will pay more money for his next watch watches are as difficult to maintain as horses he is ready to quit trying to have the watch fixed his uncle has also tried to fix the watch IO O gt i Le shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Proficient Question 04 My Watch An Instructive Little Tale by Mark Twain My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping had come to believe it infal lible in its judgments about the time of day and to consider its anatomy imperishable But at last one night let it run down grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity But by and by cheered up set the watch by guess 2 Next day stepped into the chief jeweler s to set it by the exact time and the head of the establishment took it out of my hand and proceeded to set it for me Then he said She is four minutes slow regulato
105. hat grew more assured as time went by He sold enough of these early works to keep going LS shoot Photography 6 In Philadelphia he met a young woman named Mary Nimmo who became his wife and later his companion in work Moran helped Mary develop her talent for painting and etching while he continued to develop his own artistic style 7 By 1870 Moran was illustrating articles for Scribner s Monthly magazine One ar ticle written by explorer Nathaniel Langford described a mysterious region in the West called Yellowstone as the place where hell bubbled up Langford wrote of a threat ening underworld marked by foul smelling sulfur steam By reworking crude drawings made by members of Langford s expedition and using his own imagination Moran drew a fantastic world of erupting geysers and jagged pinnacles 8 At the time little was known about this part of the West The area we now call Yellowstone encompassing sections of Wyoming Montana and Idaho was nearly inaccessible Plans to explore the region had been halted by the start of the Civil War in 1861 9 With the end of the war came new explorations sourred in part by a celebra tion of freedom and patriotism In 1867 the government began funding a number of survey teams to visit uncharted territories in the West The initial teams produced vital information accompanied by rudimentary sketches done by soldiers But these reports to Congress could not convey th
106. he calendar for the month and year you have selected will display To return to the current clock calendar display press CAL once What sequence of steps would you follow to check the time in Moscow lO O gt Press ZONE twice Press 9 Press ZONE twice Press 3 Press ZONE twice Press 9 three times Press ZONE twice Press 9 Press 3 Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Performance Level Basic Question 01 These three documents are about a software program You will need to refer to them as you answer the questions that follow Music to Your Ears by Mark Sanders Ba A 8 If you are like most American teenagers you probably own a music CD In fact you may own dozens of the m even hundreds of them Young people are buying more compact discs than ever before As their libraries have grown so has the demand for a way to organize their collections New Generation Software Company has the answer Today the company announced the release of Collector s Catalog a new user friendly software program that allows col lectors to catalog their music collections The database has the capability of maintain ing an inventory of as many as 1 000 CDs The program stores the tracking information such as record title artist category and release date that is needed to locate any CD in seconds Harrison Quaile Vice President of Marketing for New Generation explained that with Collector s Cata
107. he one in charge of celebrations rinted with the permission of Atheneum Books for Young Readers an apani of simon amp Schuster Childr i Publishing Division from l m in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor Copyrig 35 40 45 50 55 Sometimes they don t believe me 60 but it s true lam put myself in charge 65 choose my own Last year gave myself one hundred and eight 70 celebrations besides the ones that they close school for cannot get by with only 75 a few Friend l Il tell you how it works keep a notebook and I write the date 80 and then I write about the celebration l m very choosy over what goes in that book Dume zr Rer Shoob Photography It has to be something plan to remember the rest of my life You can tell what s worth a celebration because your heart will POUND and you ll feel like you re standing on top of a mountain and you ll catch your breath like you were breathing some new kind of air Otherwise count it just an average day I told you was choosy Skunk Dreams by Louise Erdrich 1 When was fourteen slept alone on a North Dakota football field under cold stars on an early September night Fall progresses swiftly in the Red River Valley and happened to hit a night when frost formed in the grass A skunk trailed a plume of steam across the forty yard line near moonrise tucked th
108. he working class 4 Queen Elizabeth of England had a great love for the arts music poetry dance and plays 5 Actors performed in inns throughout the countryside and in London 6 James Burbage an actor and painter built the first public playhouse in England called The Theater because it was the first ever built in London 7 Now the audience could come to the actors rather than the other way around and The Theater was a huge success 8 When Burbage died his sons Cuthbert and Richard inherited The Theater 9 The land however on which the playhouse was built was not owned by Burbage 10 Aman named Giles Allen owned the land and did not want to renew the lease 11 The actors decided they would build their own theater 12 They rented land near another theater The Rose and used timber from The Theater to build the first Globe Theater 13 It was here that Shakespeare s famous plays were performed 14 Success was instantaneous 15 This theater was a favorite of audiences and actors alike 16 The actors love for The Globe was so strong that when it burned down in 1613 they pooled their own money to rebuild it making it even better than before with elaborate decoration and detail adorning the stage 17 Even though this version of the Globe Theater did not survive through the century its legacy lives on lt FR shoob Photography Which of these is the best way to revise sentence 9 The land
109. idney Coe Howard The Rewards of Perseverance 1 Sidney Coe Howard a native of Oakland California enjoyed a career as a writer winning both a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award 2 Despite these later achievements Howard initially found that recognition of his work did not come easily 3 Howard s first play They Knew What They Wanted was submitted to sixteen producers before one finally agreed to put it on the stage 4 Not only was the play successful it also won a Pulitzer Prize for excellence and was later made into a movie 5 If Howard had not believed in himself and his play if he had not persevered until failure became success he might of given up and pursued a different career 6 Howard gt instead became one of the most respected play wrights of the 1920s and 1930s 7 When he was a teenager Howard had tuberculosis a very serious illness that led to a long hospitalization 8 It is likely that as an adult Howard persisted in submitting his play refusing to give up in spite of rejection because he already knew how to face and overcome adversity 9 In addition Howard made use of the time of illness and recovery by practicing his writing 10 He went to the University of California and then to Harvard after he got well where he earned a master s de gree 11 Although Howard was primarily a playwright he was also a screenwriter 12 He wrote the screenplay for the film classic Gone With the Wind for whic
110. ikely had the least influence on his ability to paint C How did the establishment of Yellowstone National Park lead to the development of the National Park Service D Why should an art critic view Moran s paintings of Yellowstone as magnificent lt Back sene Compted and sarm Fe Shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Performance Level Proficient Question 08 USING YOUR GOLDEN ARROW MULTIPURPOSE CALCULATOR TO DETERMINE THE DATE AND TIME AT YOUR LOCATION AS WELL AS LOCATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE SETTING THE DATE AND TIME FOR YOUR LOCATION Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate the code that corresponds with the time zone in which you live Select the major city that shares your time zone Press the code that corresponds to that city e g if you live in Washington Oregon California or Nevada all of which are located in the Pacific time zone you would choose Los Angeles and press the corresponding code which is the key N SE w amp Press TIME twice The two digits representing hours will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until the desired hour flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing minutes will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until the desired minute flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing seconds will begin to flash Depress and hold the A or Y key until 00 flashes Then release Press SET To
111. in a gym Back Continue N LS shoob Photography Document B continued Bodyworks II Rank 3 Price 129 Available Most department stores The Bodyworks II claims to offer a superb workout in just a half hour Well not exactly The machine the least expensive of the three did provide a good workout Its 35 posi tions were slightly more than the FitQuest though less than the Home Training System It also came unassembled but was not as difficult to put together as the Home Training System Though some of the exercises were a bit awkward none seemed dangerous Changing positions however was somewhat difficult and seemed to make a 30 min ute workout unlikely unless limited to three or four exercises Though the machine is not bulky and can easily fit under a bed it is heavy and unfolding it was a challenge Its caster wheels are not adequate for pushing it more than a few feet Bottom line You can get a good workout from this machine but if you can afford it soend a little more for the FitQuest 2000 Document C FitQuest 2000 5 Year Limited Warranty j lt If your FitQuest 2000 fails structurally during normal usage we will repair or replace it without charge to you Parts cables and labor are included This warranty is not e transferable and does not cover the failure of FitQuest 2000 machines used com mercially or for institutional purposes The warranty excludes failure caused by da unreasonable or abus
112. in college but the University of California at Berkeley which she began attending at the age of 18 did not have an architecture school Morgan majored in civil engineering instead but she held on to her dream of designing buildings After she graduated friends urged her to apply to the L Ecole des Beaux Arts a famous architecture school in Paris 3 The 22 year old Morgan sailed for Paris full of hope and excitement This must have made it all the more crushing when school authorities told Morgan that women were not allowed to take the entrance examinations Morgan refused to give up how ever She began to study French to prepare for the exam In 1897 the school finally decided to let women take the entrance exams and Morgan took the exam for the first time She did well but did not place in the top thirty the school s requirement for admittance After taking the test twice more Morgan finally gained admittance to the L Ecole des Beaux Arts Which of these is Kevin s thesis Julia Morgan designed Hearst Castle Julia Morgan is a pioneer because of the nature of her accomplishments Julia Morgan became interested in buildings when she was a child Julia Morgan s friends were behind her success IO O gt gt ceca LS shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Proficient Question 07 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Sylvi
113. ing along quietly for nearly eight hours everything inside would let go all of a sudden and begin to buzz like a bee and the hands would straightway begin to spin round and round so fast that their individuality was lost completely and they simply seemed a delicate spider s web over the face of the watch She would reel off the next twenty four hours in six or seven minutes and then stop with a bang 10 I went with a heavy heart to one more watchmaker and looked on while he took her to pieces Then prepared to cross question him rigidly for this thing was get ting serious The watch had cost two hundred dollars originally and seemed to have paid out two or three thousand for repairs azar LQ shoot Photography 11 While waited and looked on presently recognized in this watchmaker an old acquaintance a steamboat engineer of other days and not a good engineer ei ther He examined all the parts carefully just as the other watchmakers had done and then delivered his verdict with the same confidence of manner 12 He said She makes too much steam you want to hang the monkey wrench on the safety valve 13 My uncle William used to say that a good horse was a good horse until it had run away once and that a good watch was a good watch until the repairers got a chance at it Throughout this story the author references periods of time in order to identify the historical period in which the narrator lived
114. ing rattlesnakes are among the reptile population Amphibians include a few kinds of frogs and toads and one species of salamander 4 Small mammals including mice rats squirrels and bats also live in the park So do larger ones like foxes coyotes badgers bobcats mountain lions deer and bighorn sheep The burro and the horse while not native species also survive and thrive in Death Valley There is an even more surprising fact there are fish in Death Valley They live in the park s springs streams and ponds Continue a LS shoob Photography Which sentence in paragraph 1 is not consistent with the overall tone of the report A vs IO D Death Valley in southeastern California is the hottest driest place in North America and one of the hottest places known in the world That is way too amazingly hot for me Parts of Death Valley receive fewer than two inches of rain in an entire year This extremely low rainfall is caused by the rainshadow effect 27 FQ shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Basic Question 04 The following is a rough draft of a student s essay It contains errors Sidney Coe Howard The Rewards of Perseverance 1 Sidney Coe Howard a native of Oakland California enjoyed a career as a writer winning both a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award 2 Despite these later achievements Howard initia
115. ive use improper assembly following user performed disas sembly or failure to provide reasonable and necessary care and maintenance _ Please consult the User s Manual for maintenance and care instructions FitQuest ee shall not be liable for shipping or packaging charges to or from the factory for ae returned items To obtain service contact the FitQuest Customer Service Depart may MENT at the number provided in the User s Guide Users can also write with ques x tions to FitQuest Inc Customer Service P O Box 1800 Oceanside CA 90000 lt LS shoob Photography FitQuest 30 Day Money Back Guarantee All FitQuest products come with a 30 day money back guarantee less all freight charges Returns should be made in the original box Please include a copy of the original sales receipt with the date of purchase clearly marked Make sure that all parts are returned with the machine Please attach a letter detailing any damage It is requested that you also provide an explanation of why you were dissatisfied with the machine This information is optional and will be used by FitQuest only to improve our products Which of the following would most likely not be covered under the warranty in Docu ment C use by someone who wanted to lose weight use by a professional injury rehabilitation clinic use by all members of a large family on a daily basis use by a teenager who wanted to get stronger U O gt l
116. ke verse he used slang and various personas or voices to create a sense of national unity Using a process known as skaz he also incorporated national idioms into his writing 6 For Whitman the proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it Ryan 42 Whitman has undoubtedly become a part of the cul tural history and persona of America Works Cited Adams Wesley The Many Faces of Walt Whitman London Bungalow Publishing 1998 Moseley Carrie Walt Whitman A Poet for All Time New York Standard Books 2002 Ryan Tom Whitman An American Voice Chicago Noland 1999 Stevens Constance Stylistic Innovations in the Poetry of Walt Whitman Poetry Today 12 2000 27 37 Read this sentence from paragraph 4 In his work Whitman deveates from conventional patterns of rhyme and meter to create a unique rhythm and a multi layered but truly American voice Which underlined word in the sentence is spelled incorrectly A deveates B conventional C rhyme D unique lt a LS shoob Photography
117. keep up such a barking and wheezing and whooping and sneezing and snorting that could not hear myself think for the disturbance and as long as it held out there was not a watch in the land that stood any chance against it But the rest of the day it would keep on slowing down and fooling along until all the clocks it had left behind caught up again So at last at the end of twenty four hours it would trot up to the judges stand all right and just in time It would show a fair and square average and no man could say it had done more or less than its duty But a correct average is only a mild virtue in a watch and took this instrument to another watchmaker 7 He said the king bolt was broken He repaired the king bolt but what the watch gained in one way it lost in another It would run awhile and then stop awhile and then run awhile again and so on using its own discretion about the intervals And every time it went off it kicked back like a musket padded my breast for a few days but finally took the watch to another watchmaker 8 He picked it all to pieces and turned the ruin over and over under his glass and then he said there appeared to be something the matter with the hair trigger He fixed it and gave it a fresh start It did well now except that always at ten minutes to ten the hands would shut together like a pair of scissors and from that time forth they would travel together The oldest man in the world could not make h
118. l Consumer Report FitQuest 2000 Everything You Need in a Home Gym The editors of Fitness Journal asked me to check out and critique three of the most popular home gyms chose three machines that seemed to target different markets the Bodyworks Il the FitQuest 2000 and the Home Training System by Cawells Indus tries All three machines are said to fold away and store easily all three claim a full body workout can be completed in as little as 30 minutes and all three stress they can help the user lose weight and look better Compted ard oe LS shoob Photography Document B continued FitQuest 2000 Rank 1 Price 199 Available Most large department stores The FitQuest 2000 turned out to be a great little home gym It was not the most expen sive nor did it offer the most options but it was fast easy to use and left me feeling like I d had a real workout The first pleasant surprise was opening the box to find it fully assembled The FitQuest easily unpacked and unfolded and within ten minutes was working out Using the enclosed wall chart and operating instructions was able to perform all 20 of the exercises the machine claims to offer Note FitQuest does not recommend doing all 20 exercises during each workout The machine is fast The only adjustments between exercises are to the incline and the cables and are simple and easy to accomplish Still when attempted a suggested workout the next day it to
119. le oblivion of hand and mind as one a refuge such music affords the maker the pleasure of notes in perfectly measured time The Grammar of Silk is from School Figures by Cathy Song 1994 Reprinted by permission of the Uni versity of Pittsburgh Press Back coninve EE ee LS shoob Photography Read these lines from Those Winter Sundays Speaking indifferently to him who had driven out the cold In which sentence does driven have the same meaning as it does in the lines above A Shanda had driven for three hours to get to the reunion B By noon the sun had driven away the fog IN Once he had driven in the nail Karl hung the picture U The coachman had driven the horses all night i Sy hoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Word Analysis Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development Performance Level Below Basic Question 02 USING YOUR GOLDEN ARROW MULTIPURPOSE CALCULATOR TO DETERMINE THE DATE AND TIME AT YOUR LOCATION AS WELL AS LOCATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE SETTING THE DATE AND TIME FOR YOUR LOCATION Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate the code that corresponds with the time zone in which you live Select the major city that shares your time zone Press the code that corresponds to that city e g if you live in Washington Oregon California or Nevada all of which are located in the Pacific time zone you would choose
120. llow Music to Your Ears by Mark Sanders Ba A 8 If you are like most American teenagers you probably own a music CD In fact you may own dozens of the m even hundreds of them Young people are buying more compact discs than ever before As their libraries have grown so has the demand for a way to organize their collections New Generation Software Company has the answer Today the company announced the release of Collector s Catalog a new user friendly software program that allows col lectors to catalog their music collections The database has the capability of maintain ing an inventory of as many as 1 000 CDs The program stores the tracking information such as record title artist category and release date that is needed to locate any CD in seconds Harrison Quaile Vice President of Marketing for New Generation explained that with Collector s Catalog an inventory can be progressively enlarged and retrieved with ease If you are a serious music collector this news should be music to your ears R Shoob Photography Bibliography American Marketing Resources Keeping Pace With Consumer Demand The Kilmartin Report Washington Capitol Hill Press 1999 Brown Jamar What s New in Software Software Inside News 1 January 2000 sec B 4 Compact Discs The Universal Encyclopedia of Technology 1998 ed Hauser Melanie Compact Disc Packaging Analysis Music Plus Dige
121. lly found that recognition of his work did not come easily 3 Howard s first play They Knew What They Wanted was submitted to sixteen producers before one finally agreed to put it on the stage 4 Not only was the play successful it also won a Pulitzer Prize for excellence and was later made into a movie 5 If Howard had not believed in himself and his play if he had not persevered until failure became success he might of given up and pursued a different career 6 Howard gt instead became one of the most respected play wrights of the 1920s and 1930s 7 When he was a teenager Howard had tuberculosis a very serious illness that led to a long hospitalization 8 It is likely that as an adult Howard persisted in submitting his play refusing to give up in spite of rejection because he already knew how to face and overcome adversity 9 In addition Howard made use of the time of illness and recovery by practicing his writing 10 He went to the University of California and then to Harvard after he got well where he earned a master s de gree 11 Although Howard was primarily a playwright he was also a screenwriter 12 He wrote the screenplay for the film classic Gone With the Wind for which he won an Academy Award Continue ieee LS shoob Photography Which of these would be the best modifier to add before writer in sentence 1 A desired B favored marketable D successful Gra
122. log an inventory can be progressively enlarged and retrieved with ease If you are a serious music collector this news should be music to your ears ones R Shoob Photography Bibliography American Marketing Resources Keeping Pace With Consumer Demand The Kilmartin Report Washington Capitol Hill Press 1999 Brown Jamar What s New in Software Software Inside News 1 January 2000 sec B 4 Compact Discs The Universal Encyclopedia of Technology 1998 ed Hauser Melanie Compact Disc Packaging Analysis Music Plus Digest 15 December 2000 32 Larkin Esther Not Compact Enough Solving the Music Storage Question London Choice Publications 1998 Valez Hector Working Teens as Consumers Los Angeles Victory Press 1996 Back Continue i LS shoob Photography Solving the Organizati on Puzzle _ Collector s Catalog is the hottest new database 3 a B L see software program fo y oe wae classifying and managing SPR i _ C gt compact disc collections a Imagine No more digging through E a boxes or stacks of CDs to find what you Sa a re entire collection is just a mouse click away Collector s j want With Coffecitor s Catafug your __ L r cataloging m a Catalan Cataiog It s no puzzle why Collector s Catalog 39 is America s 1 choice Document B or 3 Use the TAB key to move f
123. mational D emotional icc LS shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Advanced Question 02 The following is a rough draft of a student s essay It contains errors Sidney Coe Howard The Rewards of Perseverance 1 Sidney Coe Howard a native of Oakland California enjoyed a career as a writer winning both a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award 2 Despite these later achievements Howard initially found that recognition of his work did not come easily 3 Howard s first play They Knew What They Wanted was submitted to sixteen producers before one finally agreed to put it on the stage 4 Not only was the play successful it also won a Pulitzer Prize for excellence and was later made into a movie 5 If Howard had not believed in himself and his play if he had not persevered until failure became success he might of given up and pursued a different career 6 Howard gt instead became one of the most respected play wrights of the 1920s and 1930s 7 When he was a teenager Howard had tuberculosis a very serious illness that led to a long hospitalization 8 It is likely that as an adult Howard persisted in submitting his play refusing to give up in spite of rejection because he already knew how to face and overcome adversity 9 In addition Howard made use of the time of illness and recovery by practicing his writing 10 He went to the University of Califor
124. mmon in the sense that he wrote poems in a form called thought rhythm or parallelism in which his goal was to mimic the movement of the sea and the transitory nature of human emotion A recurrent theme in Whitman s poetry is self realization In his work Whitman deveates from conventional patterns of rhyme and meter to create a unique rhythm and a multi layered but truly American voice lt FR shoob Photography 5 Although Whitman was considered a revolutionary by many there is little doubt he was fiercely patriotic Ryan 42 In his prose like verse he used slang and various personas or voices to create a sense of national unity Using a process known as skaz he also incorporated national idioms into his writing 6 For Whitman the proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it Ryan 42 Whitman has undoubtedly become a part of the cul tural history and persona of America Works Cited Adams Wesley The Many Faces of Walt Whitman London Bungalow Publishing 1998 Moseley Carrie Walt Whitman A Poet for All Time New York Standard Books 2002 Ryan Tom Whitman An American Voice Chicago Noland 1999 Stevens Constance Stylistic Innovations in the Poetry of Walt Whitman Poetry Today 12 2000 27 37 Which research question most likely contributed to the development of paragraph 1 How did Whitman spend his childhood What were Whitman s opinion
125. my mother sent me to Mrs Umemoto s sewing school It was cool and airy in her basement pleasant a word choose to use years later to describe the long tables where we sat and cut pinned and stitched the Singer s companionable whirr the crisp clever bite of scissors parting like silver fish a river of calico The school was in walking distance to Kaimuki Dry Goods where my mother purchased my supplies small cards of buttons zippers and rickrack packaged like licorice lifesaver rolls of thread in fifty yard lengths spun from spools tough as tackle Seamstresses waited at the counters like librarians to be consulted Pens and scissors dangled like awkward pendants across flat chests a scarf of measuring tape flung across a shoulder timeas a pincushion bristled at the wrist They deciphered a dress s blueprints with an architect s keen eye This evidently was a sanctuary a place where women confined with children conferred consulted the oracle the stone tablets of the latest pattern books Here mothers and daughters paused in symmetry offered the proper reverence hushed murmurings for the shauntung silk which required a certain sigh lt Back Continue c lt FR shoob Photography 36 37 38 39 40 4 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 6l 62 63 64 65 66 My mother knew there would be no shortcuts and headed for the remna
126. n closer and began to breathe rapidly its feet jerked a little like a dog s sank against the earth and fell asleep too on Back contnve FE ree LS shoob Photography 4 Of what easily tipped cans what molten sludge what dogs in yards on chains what leftover macaroni casseroles what cellar holes crawl spaces burrows taken from meek woodchucks of what miracles of garbage did my skunk dream Or did it since we can t be sure dream the plot of Moby Dick how to properly age Parmesan or how to restore the brick walled tumbledown creamery that was its home We don t know about the dreams of any other biota and even much about our own If dreams are an actual dimension as some assert then the usual rules of life by which we abide do not apply In that place skunks may certainly dream of themselves into the vests of stockbrokers Perhaps that night the skunk and dreamed each other s thoughts or are still dreaming them To paraphrase the problem of the Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu may be a woman who has dreamed herself a skunk or a skunk still dreaming that she is a woman 5 Skunks don t mind each other s vile perfume Obviously they find each other more than tolerable And even I who have been in the presence of a direct skunk hit wouldn t classify their weapon as mere smell It is more on the order of a reality enhancing experience It s not so pleasant as standing in a grove of old growth ce dars or on a lyric
127. nd put his clothes on in the blueblack cold then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze No one ever thanked him I d wake and hear the cold splintering breaking When the rooms were warm he d call and slowly would rise and dress fearing the chronic angers of that house Speaking indifferently to him who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well What did know what did know of love s austere and lonely offices Those Winter Sundays Copyright 1966 by Robert Hayden from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden by Robert Hayden edited by Frederick Glaysher Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation Continue ee LS shoob Photography 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 The Grammar of Silk by Cathy Song On Saturdays in the morning my mother sent me to Mrs Umemoto s sewing school It was cool and airy in her basement pleasant a word choose to use years later to describe the long tables where we sat and cut pinned and stitched the Singer s companionable whirr the crisp clever bite of scissors parting like silver fish a river of calico The school was in walking distance to Kaimuki Dry Goods where my mother purchased my supplies small cards of buttons zippers and rickrack packaged like licorice lifesaver rolls of
128. nd started home Up Eighth Street past the tiny blue and pink houses past my grade school past all the addresses where babysat walked in my own strange wind The streets were wide and empty met no one not a dog not a squirrel not even an early robin Perhaps they had all scattered before me blocks away had gone out to sleep on the football field because was afflicted with a sadness had to dramatize They were nothing to me now My emotions had seemed vast dark and private But they were minor mere wisps compared to skunk Skunk Dreams from THE BLUE JAY S DANCE by LOUISE ERDRICH Copyright 1995 by Louise Erdrich Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc Back coninve EE ee LS shoob Photography In which sentence does the underlined word have the most negative connotation Skunks are used to smelling each other s vile perfume Skunks are used to smelling each other s aromatic perfume Skunks are used to smelling each other s heavenly perfume Skunks are used to smelling each other s odorous perfume IO O gt fA shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Word Analysis Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development Performance Level Proficient Question 03 Read the following two selections and think about how they are alike and how they are different Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early a
129. ne Jarzembek English Mr Carter September 4 2003 Walt Whitman America s Poet 1 Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island New York Whitman received most of his education outside of the classroom His parents Walter and Louisa Whit man were uneducated but hard working people At the age of eleven he worked in a law office as an office boy where he became interested in reading He was soon reading the works of prominent authors like William Shakespeare and Homer and was well on his way to becoming one of America s most well known and endearing poets 2 By the time Whitman was seventeen years old he had already worked as a printer s apprentice worked as a compositor and a teacher Despite his aversion to teaching he excelled in the profession developing an amicable relationship with his students he even allowed them to address him by his first name He also developed fresh teaching techniques and learning games to help his students with spelling and arithmetic In his early twenties however he gave up teaching to pursue a full time career as a journalist and poet 3 When Walt Whitman first emerged as a poet his arrival onto the American liter ary scene was met with controversy His first collection of poems Leaves of Grass was so unusual that no commercial publisher would print the work In 1855 Whitman published at his own expense the first edition of his collection of twelve poems 4 Whitman s poetic style was unco
130. nfined with children conferred consulted the oracle the stone tablets of the latest pattern books Here mothers and daughters paused in symmetry offered the proper reverence hushed murmurings for the shauntung silk which required a certain sigh as if it were a piece from the Ming Dynasty i LS shoob Photography 36 37 38 39 40 Al 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 My mother knew there would be no shortcuts and headed for the remnants the leftover bundles with yardage enough for a heart shaped pillow a child s dirndl a blouse without darts Along the aisles my fingertips touched the titles satin tulle velvet peach lavender pistachio sherbet colored linings and settled for the plain brown and white composition of polka dots on kettle cloth my mother held up in triumph She was determined that should sew as if she knew what she herself was missing a moment when she could have come up for air the children asleep the dishes drying on the rack and turned on the lamp and pulled back the curtain of sleep To inhabit the night the night as a black cloth white paper a sheet of music in which she might find herself singing On Saturdays at Mrs Umemoto s sewing school when took my place beside the other girls bent my head and went to work my foot keeping time on the pedal it was to learn the charitab
131. ng bag over my head and was just dozing off when the skunk walked onto me with simple authority 2 Its ripe Odor must have dissipated in the heavy summer grass and ditch weeds because it didn t smell all that bad or perhaps it was just that took shallow breaths in numb surprise felt him her whatever pause on the side of my hip and turn around twice before evidently deciding was a good place to sleep At the back of my knees on the quilting of my sleeping bag it trod out a spot for itself and then with a serene little groan curled up and lay perfectly still That made two of us was wildly awake trying to forget the sharpness and number of skunk teeth trying not to think of the high percentage of skunks with rabies 3 Inside the bag felt as if might smother Carefully making only the slightest of rustles drew the bag away from my face and took a deep breath of the night air enriched with skunk but clear and watery and cold It wasn t so bad and the skunk didn t stir at all so watched the moon caught that night in an envelope of silk a mist pass over my sleeping field of teenage guts and glory The grass harbored a sere dust both old and fresh smelled the heat of spent growth beneath the rank tone of my bag mate the stiff fragrance of damp earth and the thick pungency of newly manured fields a mile or two away along with my sleeping bag s smell slightly mil dewed forever smoky The skunk settled eve
132. ng on which source you believe The park includes the valley itself and the surrounding mountains In spite of the name of the park and its hard climatic conditions Death Valley is alive More than 970 types of plants grow there including not only cactus but also grasses shrubs and even trees like juniper pine and mesquite Most of the trees grow in the mountains where the air is cooler and there is more water 3 The park is alive with birds reptiles and amphibians too Most are nocturnal There are scores of bird species as well as many reptiles and a few amphibians Tortoises lizards and snakes including rattlesnakes are among the reptile population Amphibians include a few kinds of frogs and toads and one species of salamander 4 Small mammals including mice rats squirrels and bats also live in the park So do larger ones like foxes coyotes badgers bobcats mountain lions deer and bighorn sheep The burro and the horse while not native species also survive and thrive in Death Valley There is an even more surprising fact there are fish in Death Valley They live in the park s springs streams and ponds Continue a LS shoob Photography What information should Sylvia add to paragraph 1 to support the information already provided lists of other hot and dry areas in the country a definition of rainshadow effect a definition of Fahrenheit statistics on the amount of rainfall in other ar
133. nia and then to Harvard after he got well where he earned a master s de gree 11 Although Howard was primarily a playwright he was also a screenwriter 12 He wrote the screenplay for the film classic Gone With the Wind for which he won an Academy Award E SY shoot Prot What is the best way to rewrite sentence 3 using the active voice A 00 IO o They Knew What They Wanted Howard s first play was rejected by sixteen producers before one finally agreed to put it on the stage Howard s first play was called They Knew What They Wanted it was rejected by sixteen producers before one finally agreed to put it on the stage Sixteen producers rejected Howard s first play They Knew What They Wanted before one finally agreed to put it on the stage Before one finally agreed to put it on the stage They Knew What They Wanted was rejected by sixteen producers as Howard s first play Back Sonra Fe shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Advanced Question 03 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Eurlene Jarzembek English Mr Carter September 4 2003 Walt Whitman America s Poet 1 Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island New York Whitman received most of his education outside of the classroom His parents Walter and Louisa Whitman were uneducated but hard working people At
134. nt Question 02 20 25 30 Pub l m in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor Sometimes people ask me Aren t you lonely out there with just desert around you guess they mean the beargrass and the yuccas and the cactus and the rocks guess they mean the deep ravines and the hawk nests in the cliffs and the coyote trails that wind across the hills Lonely can t help laughing when they ask me that always look at them surprised And say How could be lonely I m the one in charge of celebrations rinted with the permission of Atheneum Books for Young Readers an wnt of o amp Schuster Children i Publishing Division from I m in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor Copyrig 35 40 45 50 55 Sometimes they don t believe me 60 but it s true lam put myself in charge 65 choose my own Last year gave myself one hundred and eight 70 celebrations besides the ones that they close school for cannot get by with only 75 a few Friend l Il tell you how it works keep a notebook and write the date 80 and then write about the celebration l m very choosy over what goes in that book Dume zr Aer Shoob Photography It has to be something plan to remember the rest of my life You can tell what s worth a celebration because your heart will POUND and you ll feel like
135. nts the leftover bundles with yardage enough for a heart shaped pillow a child s dirndl a blouse without darts Along the aisles my fingertips touched the titles satin tulle velvet peach lavender pistachio sherbet colored linings and settled for the plain brown and white composition of polka dots on kettle cloth my mother held up in triumph She was determined that should sew as if she knew what she herself was missing a moment when she could have come up for air the children asleep the dishes drying on the rack and turned on the lamp and pulled back the curtain of sleep To inhabit the night the night as a black cloth white paper a sheet of music in which she might find herself singing On Saturdays at Mrs Umemoto s sewing school when took my place beside the other girls bent my head and went to work my foot keeping time on the pedal it was to learn the charitable oblivion of hand and mind as one a refuge such music affords the maker the pleasure of notes in perfectly measured time The Grammar of Silk is from School Figures by Cathy Song 1994 Reprinted by permission of the Uni versity of Pittsburgh Press Compted ard oe LS shoob Photography In The Grammar of Silk Song is making a statement about the need for women to establish a sense of community for themselves What does the speaker do that best il lustrates this idea A vs
136. obert Hayden edited by Frederick Glaysher Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation Compted ard oe LS shoob Photography CONA OaBKWDN WWWWWNHNNNNNNNNN gt 2 gt O RwWN DO NODAN A A KWH DOD UDOAOAON A aA KRWN O The Grammar of Silk by Cathy Song On Saturdays in the morning my mother sent me to Mrs Umemoto s sewing school It was cool and airy in her basement pleasant a word choose to use years later to describe the long tables where we sat and cut pinned and stitched the Singer s companionable whirr the crisp clever bite of scissors parting like silver fish a river of calico The school was in walking distance to Kaimuki Dry Goods where my mother purchased my supplies small cards of buttons zippers and rickrack packaged like licorice lifesaver rolls of thread in fifty yard lengths spun from spools tough as tackle Seamstresses waited at the counters like librarians to be consulted Pens and scissors dangled like awkward pendants across flat chests a scarf of measuring tape flung across a shoulder timeas a pincushion bristled at the wrist They deciphered a dress s blueprints with an architect s keen eye This evidently was a sanctuary a place where women confined with children conferred consulted the oracle the stone tablets of the latest pattern books Here mothers and daughters paused in symmetry offered th
137. ok some hustle to get through it in 30 minutes However users could probably still complete the workout in less than 45 minutes at a reasonable pace Bottom line If you can t join a gym this is a good alternative Cawells Industries advertises the Home Training System as the ultimate home workout for the serious trainer These are not just hollow promises The first clue that this will be a serious machine is the price tag a full 500 more than the FitQuest 2000 The Home Training System does offer almost everything you can think of in a home gym and its 58 exercises are almost double that offered by the FitQuest or Bodyworks Il machines The Home Training System provides a genuine workout that nearly rivals what could be achieved at commercial fitness gyms However this is a gym for someone with plenty of time for training Changing exercise positions on this machine is cumbersome and sometimes more of a workout than the exercises themselves It required almost two hours to assemble It is bulky and would only be considered portable by Arnold Schwarzenegger maybe Bottom line this is a good machine but if you ve got this much time and money join a gym ss Back continue EE Sai LS shoob Photography Document B continued Bodyworks II Rank 3 Price 129 Available Most department stores The Bodyworks II claims to offer a superb workout in just a half hour Well not exactly The machine the least e
138. ole des Beaux Arts a famous architecture school in Paris 3 The 22 year old Morgan sailed for Paris full of hope and excitement This must have made it all the more crushing when school authorities told Morgan that women were not allowed to take the entrance examinations Morgan refused to give up how ever She began to study French to prepare for the exam In 1897 the school finally decided to let women take the entrance exams and Morgan took the exam for the first time She did well but did not place in the top thirty the school s requirement for admittance After taking the test twice more Morgan finally gained admittance to the L Ecole des Beaux Arts Kevin wants to add the following sentence to his report Even as a child Morgan a San Francisco native had a strong interest in buildings Where should Kevin add this sentence at the end of paragraph 1 at the beginning of paragraph 2 at the end of paragraph 2 in the middle of paragraph 3 lO O amp gt ee azar LQ shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Proficient Question 04 Kevin s teacher asked her students to write about someone who overcame obstacles and became a success Below is Kevin s rough draft which may contain errors Julia Morgan Distinguished Architect 1 Julia Morgan California s first woman architect and the designer of Hearst Castle was a true pioneer During her long
139. on ei Back aN LS shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Advanced Question 04 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Eurlene Jarzembek English Mr Carter September 4 2003 Walt Whitman America s Poet 1 Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island New York Whitman received most of his education outside of the classroom His parents Walter and Louisa Whitman were uneducated but hard working people At the age of eleven he worked in a law office as an office boy where he became interested in reading He was soon reading the works of prominent authors like William Shakespeare and Homer and was well on his way to becoming one of America s most well known and endearing poets 2 By the time Whitman was seventeen years old he had already worked as a printer s apprentice worked as a compositor and a teacher Despite his aversion to teaching he excelled in the profession developing an amicable relationship with his students he even allowed them to address him by his first name He also developed fresh teaching techniques and learning games to help his students with spelling and arithmetic In his early twenties however he gave up teaching to pursue a full time career as a journalist and poet 3 When Walt Whitman first emerged as a poet his arrival onto the American literary scene was met with controversy His first
140. on in 1871 a young artist sat high upon a cliff in the American West mesmerized by the grandeur of the wilderness he saw In the distance the untamed Yellowstone River came crashing down a huge waterfall into a basin of sapphire blue Below him lay massive canyon walls violently etched out of the cream yellow stone 2 To paint these wonders the thin sturdy man had endured a four day ride on the fledgling Northern Pacific Railroad a dangerous stagecoach journey and a painful trek by horse and pack mule He was traveling as an artist on a survey team and the work he created as a result of this trio would introduce thousands of Americans to the sub lime landscape of their own country and help to establish Yellowstone as our first national park 3 While the bearded figure sat gazing at the splendor around him he wondered if he could capture on paper all the glories he saw Alone with his watercolors and drawing pencils 34 year old Thomas Moran began to sketch 4 The artist who did so much for the American West was born into a family of weavers in Bolton England in 1837 When Moran was seven his family moved to Phila delphia where they worked long hours at the loom 5 A sensitive young man Moran spent his early adulthood refining his art without formal education Day trips outside the city introduced him to the beauty of sloping hillsides and sparkling riverbeds sights he translated brush stroke by brush stroke onto canvases t
141. oob Photography Both Hayden and Song imply that love is offen conditional creates harmony in the home leads to disappointment lO O gt can be expressed without words Back ee EET 9 sreo Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Basic Question 01 20 25 30 Pub l m in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor Sometimes people ask me Aren t you lonely out there with just desert around you guess they mean the beargrass and the yuccas and the cactus and the rocks guess they mean the deep ravines and the hawk nests in the cliffs and the coyote trails that wind across the hills Lonely can t help laughing when they ask me that always look at them surprised And say How could be lonely I m the one in charge of celebrations rinted with the permission of Atheneum Books for Young Readers an apani of simon amp Schuster Childr i Publishing Division from I m in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor Copyrig 35 40 45 50 55 Sometimes they don t believe me 60 but it s true lam put myself in charge 65 choose my own Last year gave myself one hundred and eight 70 celebrations besides the ones that they close school for cannot get by with only 75 a few Friend l Il tell you how it works k
142. or and painter built the first public playhouse in England called The Theater because it was the first ever built in London 7 Now the audience could come to the actors rather than the other way around and The Theater was a huge success 8 When Burbage died his sons Cuthbert and Richard inherited The Theater 9 The land however on which the playhouse was builf was not owned by Burbage 10 Aman named Giles Allen owned the land and did not want to renew the lease 11 The actors decided they would build their own theater 12 They rented land near another theater The Rose and used timber from The Theater to build the first Globe Theater 13 It was here that Shakespeare s famous plays were performed 14 Success was instantaneous 15 This theater was a favorite of audiences and actors alike 16 The actors love for The Globe was so strong that when it burned down in 1613 they pooled their own money to rebuild it making it even better than before with elaborate decoration and detail adorning the stage 17 Even though this version of the Globe Theater did not survive through the century its legacy lives On Continue ceca TN FR shoob Photography Which sentence least fits the purpose of the passage A sentence 3 B sentence 4 sentence 5 D sentence 6 Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Basic Question 07 The following is a rough draft of a student s repor
143. ore For half a day it would go like the very mischief and keep up such a barking and wheezing and whooping and sneezing and snorting that could not hear myself think for the disturbance and as long as it held out there was not a watch in the land that stood any chance against it But the rest of the day it would keep on slowing down and fooling along until all the clocks it had left behind caught up again So at last at the end of twenty four hours it would trot up to the judges stand all right and just in time It would show a fair and square average and no man could say it had done more or less than its duty But a correct average is only a mild virtue in a watch and took this instrument to another watchmaker 7 He said the king bolt was broken He repaired the king bolt but what the watch gained in one way it lost in another It would run awhile and then stop awhile and then run awhile again and so on using its own discretion about the intervals And every time it went off it kicked back like a musket padded my breast for a few days but finally took the watch to another watchmaker 8 He picked it all to pieces and turned the ruin over and over under his glass and then he said there appeared to be something the matter with the hair trigger He fixed it and gave it a fresh start It did well now except that always at ten minutes to ten the hands would shut together like a pair of scissors and from that time forth they would t
144. ou stay healthy and happy Plus you ll be able to enjoy more of those forbidden foods and snacks with a clean conscience Shop around and compare You can t afford to put off getting in shape any longer Visit a FitQuest dealer near you Fitness Journal Document B Fitness Journal Consumer Report FitQuest 2000 Everything You Need in a Home Gym The editors of Fitness Journal asked me to check out and critique three of the most popular home gyms chose three machines that seemed to target different markets the Bodyworks Il the FitQuest 2000 and the Home Training System by Cawells Indus tries All three machines are said to fold away and store easily all three claim a full body workout can be completed in as little as 30 minutes and all three stress they can help the user lose weight and look better i LS shoob Photography Document B continued FitQuest 2000 Rank 1 Price 199 Available Most large department stores The FitQuest 2000 turned out to be a great little home gym It was not the most expen sive nor did it offer the most options but it was fast easy to use and left me feeling like I d had a real workout The first pleasant surprise was opening the box to find it fully assembled The FitQuest easily unpacked and unfolded and within ten minutes was working out Using the enclosed wall chart and operating instructions was able to perform all 20 of the exercises the machine claims
145. ou want to hang the monkey wrench on the safety valve 13 My uncle William used to say that a good horse was a good horse until it had run away once and that a good watch was a good watch until the repairers got a chance at it One indication that this was not written in recent times is the comparison of the watch toa A pair of scissors B musket C spider s web D bee Back lt a Fe shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Proficient Question 05 My Watch An Instructive Little Tale by Mark Twain 1 My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping had come to believe it infal lible in its judgments about the time of day and to consider its anatomy imperishable But at last one night let it run down grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity But by and by cheered up set the watch by guess 2 Next day stepped into the chief jeweler s to set it by the exact time and the head of the establishment took it out of my hand and proceeded to set it for me Then he said She is four minutes slow regulator wants pushing up 3 tried to stop him tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time But no all this human cabbage could see was that the watch was four minutes slow and the regulator mus
146. out to sleep on the football field because was afflicted with a sadness had to dramatize They were nothing to me now My emotions had seemed vast dark and private But they were minor mere wisps compared to skunk Skunk Dreams from THE BLUE JAY S DANCE by LOUISE ERDRICH Copyright 1995 by Louise Erdrich Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc Back coninve EE ee LS shoob Photography Baylor moves the reader through her poem I m in Charge of Celebrations by using vivid descriptive details key words and phrase repetition short line length varied punctuation lO O b gt S Shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Advanced Question 02 My Watch An Instructive Little Tale by Mark Twain My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping had come to believe it infal lible in its judgments about the time of day and to consider its anatomy imperishable But at last one night let it run down grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity But by and by cheered up set the watch by guess 2 Next day stepped into the chief jeweler s to set it by the exact time and the head of the establishment took it out of my hand and proceeded to set it for me Then he
147. paragraph 3 should Sylvia define to help the reader better understand the flow of ideas A reptiles B amphibians C nocturnal D species lt Back ON S27 LQ shoon Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Proficient Question 09 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Sylvia Hernandez Mrs Woods Geography 101 January 10 2003 Life in Death Valley 1 Death Valley in southeastern California is the hottest driest place in North America and one of the hottest places known in the world The highest temperature ever recorded in the valley was 134 Fahrenheit and the temperature routinely reaches 115 in July That is way too amazingly hot for me Parts of Death Valley receive fewer than two inches of rain in an entire year This extremely low rainfall is caused by the rainshadow effect 2 Death Valley National Park is either 3 367 628 acres or 3 396 192 acres depending on which source you believe The park includes the valley itself and the surrounding mountains In spite of the name of the park and its hard climatic conditions Death Valley is alive More than 970 types of plants grow there including not only cactus but also grasses shrubs and even trees like juniper pine and mesquite Most of the trees grow in the mountains where the air is cooler and there is more water 3 The park is alive with birds reptiles and amphibians
148. per stained boulders and yellow sulfur springs only to see them upstaged by the violent blues of cascading waters 14 Back in Philadelphia after the expedition Moran was eager to communicate the profound experience of Yellowstone He spent months at his easel often painting into the night the only light coming from flickering gas lamps I have always held that the grandest most beautiful or wonderful in nature would in capable hands make the grandest most beautiful or wonderful pictures the artist later wrote If fail to prove this fail to prove myself worthy of the name painter 15 Thomas Moran proved himself more than worthy His Grand Canyon of the Yel lowstone a monumental seven by 12 foot oil painting is one of the finest landscapes in 19th century American art 16 While Moran worked in his studio Hayden knocked on Congressional doors With expedition photos and Moran s vivid field sketches in hand Hayden had an arsenal of visual ammunition to push forward the park legislation 17 By March 1 1872 when President Ulysses S Grant signed the bill Yellowstone had been described in the Congressional debates not as an unfriendly underworld place but as a pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people Curious to discover the West they had previously sourned even feared thousands of Americans traveled there to experience its awe inspiring beauty Congress echoed this enthusiasm by purcha
149. r wants pushing up 3 tried to stop him tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time But no all this human cabbage could see was that the watch was four minutes slow and the regulator must be pushed up a little and so while danced around him in anguish and implored him to let the watch alone he calmly and cruelly did the shameful deed 4 My watch began to gain It gained faster and faster day by day Within the week it sickened to a raging fever and its pulse went up to a hundred and fifty in the shade At the end of two months it had left all the timepieces of the town far in the rear and was a fraction over thirteen days ahead of the almanac It was away into November enjoying the snow while the October leaves were still turning It hurried up house rent bills payable and such things in such a ruinous way that could not abide it took it to the watchmaker to be regulated 5 After being cleaned and oiled and regulated my watch slowed down to that degree that it ticked like a tolling bell began to be left by trains failed all appoint ments got to missing my dinner went to a watchmaker again Continue ee LS shoob Photography 6 He took the watch all to pieces while waited and then said the barrel was swelled He said he could reduce it in three days After this the watch averaged well but nothing more For half a day it would go like the very mischief and
150. ravel together The oldest man in the world could not make head or tail of the time of day by such a watch and so went again to have the thing repaired 9 This person said that the crystal had got bent and that the mainspring was not straight He also remarked that part of the works needed half soling He made these things all right and then my timepiece performed unexceptionably save that now and then after working along quietly for nearly eight hours everything inside would let go all of a sudden and begin to buzz like a bee and the hands would straightway begin to spin round and round so fast that their individuality was lost completely and they simply seemed a delicate spider s web over the face of the watch She would reel off the next twenty four hours in six or seven minutes and then stop with a bang 10 I went with a heavy heart to one more watchmaker and looked on while he took her to pieces Then prepared to cross question him rigidly for this thing was get ting serious The watch had cost two hundred dollars originally and seemed to have paid out two or three thousand for repairs nm Back Continue ee azar LQ shoot Photography 11 While waited and looked on I presently recognized in this watchmaker an old acquaintance a steamboat engineer of other days and not a good engineer ei ther He examined all the parts carefully just as the other watchmakers had done and then delivered his verdict wit
151. ream the plot of Moby Dick how to properly age Parmesan or how to restore the brick walled tumbledown creamery that was its home We don t know about the dreams of any other biota and even much about our own If dreams are an actual dimension as some assert then the usual rules of life by which we abide do not apply In that place skunks may certainly dream of themselves into the vests of stockbrokers Perhaps that night the skunk and dreamed each other s thoughts or are still dreaming them To paraphrase the problem of the Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu may be a woman who has dreamed herself a skunk or a skunk still dreaming that she is a woman 5 Skunks don t mind each other s vile perfume Obviously they find each other more than tolerable And even who have been in the presence of a direct skunk hit wouldn t classify their weapon as mere smell It is more on the order of a reality enhancing experience It s not so pleasant as standing in a grove of old growth ce dars or on a lyrical moonshed plain or watching trout rise to the shadow of your hand on the placid surface of an Alpine lake When the skunk lets go you re surrounded by skunk presence inhabited owned involved with something you can only describe as powerfully there 6 woke at dawn stunned into that sprayed state of being The dog that had ap proached me was rolling in the grass half addled sprayed too My skunk was gone abandoned my sleeping bag a
152. reating a New Data Record Collector s Catalog CD Organizer 1 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu File See 2 Type the title of the CD in the box below the word All Recorde TITLE A Included with your User s Manual is a booklet of colored and numbered adhesive stickers Remove the colored sticker that corresponds w ith the color code and number you assign to each CD and stick it on the hinged side of the plastic CD holder i SJ shoob Photography To locate more information about Collector s Catalog before purchasing the program you could read What s New in Software Compact Disc Packaging Analysis Working Teens as Consumers Keeping Pace With Consumer Demand lO O gt Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Performance Level Proficient Question 05 These three documents are about a software program You will need to refer to them as you answer the questions that follow Music to Your Ears by Mark Sanders Ba A 8 If you are like most American teenagers you probably own a music CD In fact you may own dozens of the m even hundreds of them Young people are buying more compact discs than ever before As their libraries have grown so has the demand for a way to organize their collections New Generation Software Company has the answer Today the company announced the release of Collector s Catalog a new user friendly software program that allows
153. rive in Death Valley There is an even more surprising fact there are fish in Death Valley They live in the park s springs streams and ponds Continue a LS shoob Photography Which of the following should not appear on the title page of Sylvia s report when she turns it in the title of the report the writer s name the Works Cited the date of submission lO O gt S Shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Basic Question 05 The following is a rough draft of a student s essay It contains errors Sidney Coe Howard The Rewards of Perseverance 1 Sidney Coe Howard a native of Oakland California enjoyed a career as a writer winning both a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award 2 Despite these later achievements Howard initially found that recognition of his work did not come easily 3 Howard s first play They Knew What They Wanted was submitted to sixteen producers before one finally agreed to put it on the stage 4 Not only was the play successful it also won a Pulitzer Prize for excellence and was later made into a movie 5 If Howard had not believed in himself and his play if he had not persevered until failure became success he might of given up and pursued a different career 6 Howard gt instead became one of the most respected play wrights of the 1920s and 1930s 7 When he was
154. rmation accompanied by rudimentary sketches done by soldiers But these reports to Congress could not convey the visual reality of this stunning region 10 One team however was led by Ferdinand V Hayden a former Union Army surgeon who had tremendous enthusiasm for both scientific discovery and natural beauty Hayden possessed one important skill that the other team leaders lacked he was adept at political lobbying Hayden s goal was not merely to issue technical reports but to excite public imagination to popularize the West and make it acces sible 11 Hayden knew it would take a landscape painter of enormous talent even ge nius to show Congress what he himself had seen At the suggestion of Northern Pacific Railroad financier Jay Cooke who had seen Moran s sketches in Scribner s Hayden took along the young artist Cooke and Scribner s each put up 500 to finance Mo ran s journey 12 With his small carpetbag stuffed full of clothing and art materials Moran went into the wilderness He was so thin he had to put a pillow beneath him on the saddle but he still couldn t ride without pain Back Continue LS shoob Photography 13 The trip proved worthwhile however Finally reaching the foothills of Yellow stone s Mount Washburn Moran was dazzled by the deep greens of ancient pines and the aspens that seemed to steal color from the sun As he approached the Yel lowstone River s Lower Falls he was astounded by cop
155. rns of rhyme and meter to create a unique rhythm and a multi layered but truly American voice lt LS shoob Photography 5 Although Whitman was considered a revolutionary by many there is little doubt he was fiercely patriotic Ryan 42 In his prose like verse he used slang and various personas or voices to create a sense of national unity Using a process known as skaz he also incorporated national idioms into his writing 6 For Whitman the proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it Ryan 42 Whitman has undoubtedly become a part of the cul tural history and persona of America Works Cited Adams Wesley The Many Faces of Walt Whitman London Bungalow Publishing 1998 Moseley Carrie Walt Whitman A Poet for All Time New York Standard Books 2002 Ryan Tom Whitman An American Voice Chicago Noland 1999 Stevens Constance Stylistic Innovations in the Poetry of Walt Whitman Poetry Today 12 2000 27 37 Which sentence would best conclude the report A Walt Whitman s poetry then was a means by which he could depict his life and deal with difficult experiences B He believed that music is the poet s greatest source of wealth and inspiration C As he once predicted future generations of readers continue to embrace and celebrate his work D Whitman believed that he owed his career as a poet to his friend and mentor Raloh Waldo Emers
156. roficient Question 03 The Man Who Gave Us Yellowstone by Cliff Yudell 1 On a brilliant summer afternoon in 1871 a young artist sat high upon a cliff in the American West mesmerized by the grandeur of the wilderness he saw In the distance the untamed Yellowstone River came crashing down a huge waterfall into a basin of sapphire blue Below him lay massive canyon walls violently etched out of the cream yellow stone 2 To paint these wonders the thin sturdy man had endured a four day ride on the fledgling Northern Pacific Railroad a dangerous stagecoach journey and a painful trek by horse and pack mule He was traveling as an artist on a survey team and the work he created as a result of this trip would introduce thousands of Americans to the sub lime landscape of their own country and help to establish Yellowstone as our first national park 3 While the bearded figure sat gazing at the splendor around him he wondered if he could capture on paper all the glories he saw Alone with his watercolors and drawing pencils 34 year old Thomas Moran began to sketch 4 The artist who did so much for the American West was born into a family of weavers in Bolton England in 1837 When Moran was seven his family moved to Phila delphia where they worked long hours at the loom 5 A sensitive young man Moran spent his early adulthood refining his art without formal education Day trips outside the city introduced him to the beauty of
157. rom one field to the next until you have entered all the requested information 4 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu The entry is automatically saved and the title of the CD will appear on the left side of the screen under ALL RECORDS 5 Repeat the procedure to enter additional CDs After you have made all of your entries simply hit EXIT All information you entered is saved Note All fields in the record except comments are required This means they can NOT be left blank you must enter information in each box TDA Mi Creating a New Data Record Collector s Catalog CD Organizer 1 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu File See 2 Type the title of the CD in the box below the word All Recorde TITLE A Included with your User s Manual is a booklet of colored and numbered adhesive stickers Remove the colored sticker that corresponds w ith the color code and number you assign to each CD and stick it on the hinged side of the plastic CD holder i Sy shoob Photography According to Document C a document is saved each time you select A FILE B TITLE NEW RECORD D ALL RECORDS Back i fero enotosraphy Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Performance Level Basic Question 02 USING YOUR GOLDEN ARROW MULTIPURPOSE CALCULATOR TO DETERMINE THE DATE AND TIME AT YOUR LOCATION AS WELL AS LOCATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE SETTING THE DATE AND TIME FOR Y
158. s about America What styles did Whitman incorporate into his poetry How did the public react to Whitman s first publication lO O gt Back AeA lt a Fe shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Written and Oral English Language Conventions Performance Level Advanced Question 01 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Communicating with a Giant 1 Elephants are known as one of the most respected and magnificent land animals in the world 2 Living peacefully with other creatures is easy for elephants be cause despite their powerful strength they do not abuse their power and they care fully avoid harming other creatures 3 Elephants live together easily 4 Because they communicate well with each other 5 Just like people elephants use body language and sound to communicate easily with one another 6 The positions of an elephant s trunk ears and head communicate 7 When an elephant s ears are outstreched and the head is high it is showing signs of a threat which indicates to smaller elephants that they should move away 8 They recognize one another by sight smell and voice 9 Greetings to one another are communicat ed between two elephants by entwining their trunks and touching cheeks 10 A variety of sounds make up their language including the rumbling sound produced in the larynx and the high pitched trumpet like sound pro
159. s little doubt he was fiercely patriotic Ryan 42 In his prose like verse he used slang and various personas or voices to create a sense of national unity Using a process known as skaz he also incorporated national idioms into his writing 6 For Whitman the proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it Ryan 42 Whitman has undoubtedly become a part of the cul tural history and persona of America Works Cited Adams Wesley The Many Faces of Walt Whitman London Bungalow Publishing 1998 Moseley Carrie Walt Whitman A Poet for All Time New York Standard Books 2002 Ryan Tom Whitman An American Voice Chicago Noland 1999 Stevens Constance Stylistic Innovations in the Poetry of Walt Whitman Poetry Today 12 2000 27 37 Which Works Cited entry is most likely the source for the information in paragraph 2 about Whitman s teaching career A Adams Wesley The Many Faces of Walt Whitman London Bungalow Publishing 1998 B Moseley Carrie Walt Whitman A Poet for All Time New York Standard Books 2002 C Ryan Tom Whitman An American Voice Chicago Noland 1999 D Stevens Constance Stylistic Innovations in the Poetry of Walt Whitman Poetry Today 12 2000 27 37 lt LS Shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Basic Question 01 The following is a rough draft of a student s repor
160. sales receipt with the date of purchase clearly marked Make sure that all parts are returned with the machine Please attach a letter detailing any damage It is requested that you also provide an explanation of why you were dissatisfied with the machine This information is optional and will be used by FitQuest only to improve our products Based on information in Document B you can tell that the author feels that the Home Training System lacks most of the benefits that make home gyms desirable does not provide users with a good solid workout should be used only by athletes training for competition is a gimmick that will not provide any benefits to users IO O b gt on Back a coupes Ley shoob Photography Courtenay of Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Focus on Informational Materials Performance Level Proficient Question 02 Read these three documents and answer the questions that follow FitQuest 2000 Your Home Fitness Solution 1 the price of comparable models 3 a ered Ja hata Look Great imited Time Offer Feel Better Live Longer The Number 1 Get started now for that summer body you ve always dreamed about Home Gym Strength training will not only improve your physical appearance it 5 ey ee will increase your energy and help you stay healthy and happy Plus you ll be able to enjoy more of those forbidden foods and snacks with a clean conscience
161. set the year month and day press DATE three times Then repeat steps 2 through 7 NOTE At this point hours minutes and seconds will change to year month and day DETERMINING DATE AND TIME FOR THE WORLD S 16 TIME ZONES l 2 Press ZONE twice Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate the code that corresponds to the time zone for which you desire the date and time Press that code e g press to determine the date and time in Hong Kong The selected date and time will alternately display for 10 seconds and then return automatically to your home date and time CODE CMY TIME 0 Honolulu 10 1 LosAngeles 8 2 Denver 7 3 Chicago 6 4 NewYork 5 5 RlodeJanelo 3 6 London 0 CODE CITY TIME 8 Cairo 2 9 Moscow 3 Bangkok 7 HongKong 8 Toyo 9 Sydney 10 Lt Wellington 12 The TIME column shows the number of hours each city is ahead of or behind London i Sy shoob Photography USING THE 100 YEAR CALENDAR You can view the calendar for the years 1950 to 2050 L 2 A M A p Press CAL twice The four digits representing the year will begin to flash Depress and hold down the A or V key until the desired year flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing the month will begin to flash Depress and hold down the A or V key until the desired month flashes Then release Press SET T
162. shed murmurings for the shauntung silk which required a certain sigh Ming Dynasty on Back Continue a szar LQ shoot Photography 36 37 38 39 40 4 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 6l 62 63 64 65 66 My mother knew there would be no shortcuts and headed for the remnants the leftover bundles with yardage enough for a heart shaped pillow a child s dirndl a blouse without darts Along the aisles my fingertips touched the titles satin tulle velvet peach lavender pistachio sherbet colored linings and settled for the plain brown and white composition of polka dots on kettle cloth my mother held up in triumph She was determined that should sew as if she knew what she herself was missing a moment when she could have come up for air the children asleep the dishes drying on the rack and turned on the lamp and pulled back the curtain of sleep To inhabit the night the night as a black cloth white paper a sheet of music in which she might find herself singing On Saturdays at Mrs Umemoto s sewing school when took my place beside the other girls bent my head and went to work my foot keeping time on the pedal it was to learn the charitable oblivion of hand and mind as one a refuge such music affords the maker the pleasure of notes in perfectly measured time The Grammar of Silk is from School Figures by Cathy Son
163. sing Moran s Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone for display in the Capitol 18 With his reputation launched Moran literally began using Yellowstone as his middle name Keen eyed observers will note a tiny monogram on many of his land scapes combining his initials TM with a Y for the park that became such a part of his identity 19 Moran continued to explore the West producing canvases so precise that even today geologists can identify rock formations from studying his works By the time he died in 1926 at age 89 Moran had created some 1000 oils ore than 2000 magazine illustrations and over 300 watercolors LS shoob Photography 20 The artist s greatest legacy however was to future generations The establish ment of Yellowstone National Park led to the development of the National Park Ser vice which now administers more than 350 sites including national parks battlefields and memorials attracting more than 265 million visitors a year 21 It s not surprising then that Thomas Moran has been called the Father of the National Parks What his landscapes proved said Stephen Tyng Mather director of the Park Service in the 1920s was that an American did not have to leave his native shores to look on something more wonderful than the Alps Copyright 1997 Cliff Yudell Used by permission of Cliff Yudell a Miami based writer and artist Which idea shows that the author believes that Yellows
164. st 15 December 2000 32 Larkin Esther Not Compact Enough Solving the Music Storage Question London Choice Publications 1998 Valez Hector Working Teens as Consumers Los Angeles Victory Press 1996 Document A on Back Continue ce i SJ shoob Photography Solving the Organizati on Puzzle _ Collector s Catalog is the hottest new database 3 a B L see software program fo y oe wae classifying and managing SPR i _ C gt compact disc collections a Imagine No more digging through E a boxes or stacks of CDs to find what you Sa a re entire collection is just a mouse click away Collector s j want With Coffecitor s Catafug your __ L r cataloging m a Catalan Cataiog It s no puzzle why Collector s Catalog 39 is America s 1 choice Document B or 3 Use the TAB key to move from one field to the next until you have entered all the requested information 4 Select NEW RECORD from the FILE menu The entry is automatically saved and the title of the CD will appear on the left side of the screen under ALL RECORDS 5 Repeat the procedure to enter additional CDs After you have made all of your entries simply hit EXIT All information you entered is saved Note All fields in the record except comments are required This means they can NOT be left blank you must enter information in each box TDA Mi C
165. st of my life You can fell what s worth a celebration because your heart will POUND and you ll feel like you re standing on top of a mountain and you ll catch your breath like you were breathing some new kind of air Otherwise count it just an average day I told you was choosy Shoob Photography Skunk Dreams by Louise Erdrich 1 When was fourteen slept alone on a North Dakota football field under cold stars on an early September night Fall progresses swiftly in the Red River Valley and happened to hit a night when frost formed in the grass A skunk trailed a plume of steam across the forty yard line near moonrise tucked the top of my sleep ing bag over my head and was just dozing off when the skunk walked onto me with simple authority 2 Its ripe odor must have dissipated in the heavy summer grass and ditch weeds because it didn t smell all that bad or perhaps it was just that took shallow breaths in numb surprise felt him her whatever pause on the side of my hip and turn around twice before evidently deciding was a good place to sleep At the back of my knees on the quilting of my sleeping bag it trod out a spot for itself and then with a serene little groan curled up and lay perfectly still That made two of us was wildly awake trying to forget the sharpness and number of skunk teeth trying not to think of the high percentage of skunks with rabies 3 Inside the b
166. t Back sene Compted and ENa Fe shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Focus on Informational Materials Performance Level Proficient Question 01 Read these three documents and answer the questions that follow Document A FitQuest 2000 Your Home Fitness Solution 1 the price of comparable models 3 a ered Ja hata Look Great imited Time Offer Feel Better Live Longer The Number 1 Get started now for that summer body you ve always dreamed about Home Gym Strength training will not only improve your physical appearance it will increase your energy and help you stay healthy and happy Plus you ll be able to enjoy more of those forbidden foods and snacks with a clean conscience Shop around and compare You can t afford to put off getting in shape any longer Visit a FitQuest dealer near you Fitness Journal Document B Fitness Journal Consumer Report FitQuest 2000 Everything You Need in a Home Gym The editors of Fitness Journal asked me to check out and critique three of the most popular home gyms chose three machines that seemed to target different markets the Bodyworks Il the FitQuest 2000 and the Home Training System by Cawells Indus tries All three machines are said to fold away and store easily all three claim a full body workout can be completed in as little as 30 minutes and all three stress they can help the user lose
167. t It contains errors Sylvia Hernandez Mrs Woods Geography 101 January 10 2003 Life in Death Valley 1 Death Valley in southeastern California is the hottest driest place in North America and one of the hottest places known in the world The highest temperature ever recorded in the valley was 134 Fahrenheit and the temperature routinely reaches 115 in July That is way too amazingly hot for me Parts of Death Valley receive fewer than two inches of rain in an entire year This extremely low rainfall is caused by the rainshadow effect 2 Death Valley National Park is either 3 367 628 acres or 3 396 192 acres depending on which source you believe The park includes the valley itself and the surrounding mountains In spite of the name of the park and its hard climatic conditions Death Valley is alive More than 970 types of plants grow there including not only cactus but also grasses shrubs and even trees like juniper pine and mesquite Most of the trees grow in the mountains where the air is cooler and there is more water 3 The park is alive with birds reptiles and amphibians too Most are nocturnal There are scores of bird species as well as many reptiles and a few amphibians Tortoises lizards and snakes including rattlesnakes are among the reptile population Amphibians include a few kinds of frogs and toads and one species of salamander 4 Small mammals including mice rats squirrels and bats also liv
168. t It contains errors The Beginnings of the Globe 1 Everyone knows that the Globe Theater is a cool place 2 In 1996 it was voted the best attraction in Europe however this version of the Globe completed in the mid 1990s with funds from the Shakespeare Globe Playhouse Trust is not the original Globe built in the 1500s 3 During the 16th century plays were popular entertainment among all kinds of people from the wealthy nobles to the working class 4 Queen Elizabeth of England had a great love for the arts music poetry dance and plays 5 Actors performed in inns throughout the countryside and in London 6 James Burbage an actor and painter built the first public playhouse in England called The Theater because it was the first ever built in London 7 Now the audience could come to the actors rather than the other way around and The Theater was a huge success 8 When Burbage died his sons Cuthbert and Richard inherited The Theater 9 The land however on which the playhouse was builf was not owned by Burbage 10 Aman named Giles Allen owned the land and did not want to renew the lease 11 The actors decided they would build their own theater 12 They rented land near another theater The Rose and used timber from The Theater to build the first Globe Theater 13 It was here that Shakespeare s famous plays were performed 14 Success was instantaneous 15 This theater was a favorite of audiences and
169. t at the end of twenty four hours it would trot up to the judges stand all right and just in time It would show a fair and square average and no man could say it had done more or less than its duty But a correct average is only a mild virtue in a watch and took this instrument to another watchmaker 7 He said the king bolt was broken He repaired the king bolt but what the watch gained in one way it lost in another It would run awhile and then stop awhile and then run awhile again and so on using its own discretion about the intervals And every time it went off it kicked back like a musket padded my breast for a few days but finally took the watch to another watchmaker 8 He picked it all to pieces and turned the ruin over and over under his glass and then he said there appeared to be something the matter with the hair trigger He fixed it and gave it a fresh start It did well now except that always at ten minutes to ten the hands would shut together like a pair of scissors and from that time forth they would travel together The oldest man in the world could not make head or tail of the time of day by such a watch and so went again to have the thing repaired 9 This person said that the crystal had got bent and that the mainspring was not straight He also remarked that part of the works needed half soling He made these things all right and then my timepiece performed unexceptionably save that now and then after work
170. t a chance at it What literary device is the narrator using when he says Within the week it sickened to a raging fever and its pulse went up to a hundred and fifty in the shade A repetition B symbolism C irony D personification i ey shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis Performance Level Proficient Question 06 My Watch An Instructive Little Tale by Mark Twain My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping had come to believe it infal lible in its judgments about the time of day and to consider its anatomy imperishable But at last one night let it run down grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity But by and by cheered up set the watch by guess 2 Next day stepped into the chief jeweler s to set it by the exact time and the head of the establishment took it out of my hand and proceeded to set it for me Then he said She is four minutes slow regulator wants pushing up 3 tried to stop him tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time But no all this human cabbage could see was that the watch was four minutes slow and the regulator must be pushed up a little and so while danced around him in anguish and implored him to let the watch alone he calmly and cruelly did the shameful d
171. t be pushed up a little and so while danced around him in anguish and implored him to let the watch alone he calmly and cruelly did the shameful deed 4 My watch began to gain It gained faster and faster day by day Within the week it sickened to a raging fever and its pulse went up to a hundred and fifty in the shade At the end of two months it had left all the timepieces of the town far in the rear and was a fraction over thirteen days ahead of the almanac It was away into November enjoying the snow while the October leaves were still turning It hurried up house rent bills payable and such things in such a ruinous way that could not abide it took it to the watchmaker to be regulated 5 After being cleaned and oiled and regulated my watch slowed down to that degree that it ticked like a tolling bell began to be left by trains failed all appoint ments got to missing my dinner went to a watchmaker again lt LS shoob Photography 6 He took the watch all to pieces while waited and then said the barrel was swelled He said he could reduce it in three days After this the watch averaged well but nothing more For half a day it would go like the very mischief and keep up such a barking and wheezing and whooping and sneezing and snorting that could not hear myself think for the disturbance and as long as it held out there was not a watch in the land that stood any chance against it But the
172. t department stores The Bodyworks II claims to offer a superb workout in just a half hour Well not exactly The machine the least expensive of the three did provide a good workout Its 35 posi tions were slightly more than the FitQuest though less than the Home Training System It also came unassembled but was not as difficult to put together as the Home Training System Though some of the exercises were a bit awkward none seemed dangerous Changing positions however was somewhat difficult and seemed to make a 30 min ute workout unlikely unless limited to three or four exercises Though the machine is not bulky and can easily fit under a bed it is heavy and unfolding it was a challenge Its caster wheels are not adequate for pushing it more than a few feet Bottom line You can get a good workout from this machine but if you can afford it soend a little more for the FitQuest 2000 Document C FitQuest 2000 5 Year Limited Warranty j lt If your FitQuest 2000 fails structurally during normal usage we will repair or replace it without charge to you Parts cables and labor are included This warranty is not e transferable and does not cover the failure of FitQuest 2000 machines used com mercially or for institutional purposes The warranty excludes failure caused by da unreasonable or abusive use improper assembly following user performed disas sembly or failure to provide reasonable and necessary care and maintenance _ Pl
173. t place skunks may certainly dream of themselves into the vests of stockbrokers Perhaps that night the skunk and dreamed each other s thoughts or are still dreaming them To paraphrase the problem of the Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu may be a woman who has dreamed herself a skunk or a skunk still dreaming that she is a woman 5 Skunks don t mind each other s vile perfume Obviously they find each other more than tolerable And even who have been in the presence of a direct skunk hit wouldn t classify their weapon as mere smell It is more on the order of a reality enhancing experience It s not so pleasant as standing in a grove of old growth ce dars or on a lyrical moonshed plain or watching trout rise to the shadow of your hand on the placid surface of an Alpine lake When the skunk lets go you re surrounded by skunk presence inhabited owned involved with something you can only describe as powerfully there 6 woke at dawn stunned into that sprayed state of being The dog that had ap proached me was rolling in the grass half addled sprayed too My skunk was gone abandoned my sleeping bag and started home Up Eighth Street past the tiny blue and pink houses past my grade school past all the addresses where babysat walked in my own strange wind The streets were wide and empty met no one not a dog not a squirrel not even an early robin Perhaps they had all scattered before me blocks away had gone
174. t time She did well but did not place in the top thirty the school s requirement for admittance After taking the test twice more Morgan finally gained admittance to the L Ecole des Beaux Arts The next paragraph of Kevin s draft will probably be about the first buildings designed by Morgan how Morgan s family supported her dream female architects who got their start under Morgan the architectural style Morgan favored later in life lO O gt lt FR shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Proficient Question 03 Kevin s teacher asked her students to write about someone who overcame obstacles and became a success Below is Kevin s rough draft which may contain errors Julia Morgan Distinguished Architect 1 Julia Morgan California s first woman architect and the designer of Hearst Castle was a true pioneer During her long distinguished career she designed many beautiful homes schools hospitals and community centers Though Morgan faced many chal lenges on her way to becoming an architect she overcame them alll 2 Morgan hoped to study architecture in college but the University of California at Berkeley which she began attending at the age of 18 did not have an architecture school Morgan majored in civil engineering instead but she held on to her dream of designing buildings After she graduated friends urged her to apply to the L Ec
175. tance After taking the test twice more Morgan finally gained admittance to the L Ecole des Beaux Arts Continue ceca i LS shoob Photography Kevin wants to add the following sentence to his report Which version of the sentence is the most descriptive and precise A os IN U Morgan liked the elegant curving lines of classical architecture better than the sharp angles of modern architecture The particular lines of classical architecture rather than the very different look of modern architecture were Morgan s preference For some reason Morgan liked the classical architecture better than modern architecture The lines of classical architecture Morgan found more attractive than the lines of modern architecture i Le shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Proficient Question 06 Kevin s teacher asked her students to write about someone who overcame obstacles and became a success Below is Kevin s rough draft which may contain errors Julia Morgan Distinguished Architect 1 Julia Morgan California s first woman architect and the designer of Hearst Castle was a true pioneer During her long distinguished career she designed many beautiful homes schools hospitals and community centers Though Morgan faced many chal lenges on her way to becoming an architect she overcame them all 2 Morgan hoped to study architecture
176. the children asleep the dishes drying on the rack and turned on the lamp and pulled back the curtain of sleep To inhabit the night the night as a black cloth white paper a sheet of music in which she might find herself singing On Saturdays at Mrs Umemoto s sewing school when took my place beside the other girls bent my head and went to work my foot keeping time on the pedal it was to learn the charitable oblivion of hand and mind as one a refuge such music affords the maker the pleasure of notes in perfectly measured time The Grammar of Silk is from School Figures by Cathy Song 1994 Reprinted by permission of the Uni versity of Pittsburgh Press Back coninve EE ee LS shoob Photography Which word from The Grammar of Silk is derived from a Latin word meaning to stay behind A dangled B linings C remnants D triumph Grade 10 English Language Arts Word Analysis Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development Performance Level Basic Question 01 Which of the following words is derived from the mythological name of the Greek god of fear A oceanic B cosmetic phobic D psychic Word Analysis Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development Perfor mance Level Basic Question 02 Which of these words denoting thinness has a negative connotation A slender B lean C scrawny D slim Continue ee
177. ther 5 Just like people elephants use body language and sound to communicate easily with one another 6 The positions of an elephant s trunk ears and head communicate 7 When an elephant s ears are outstreched and the head is high it is showing signs of a threat which indicates to smaller elephants that they should move away 8 They recognize one another by sight smell and voice 9 Greetings to one another are communicat ed between two elephants by entwining their trunks and touching cheeks 10 A variety of sounds make up their language including the rumbling sound produced in the larynx and the high pitched trumpet like sound produced with a raised trunk 11 Elephants are animals that love to chatter when they are around each other 12 A purring vibration can indicate pleasure when two meet 13 On the other hand their throats let out a rumbling sound when they are in pain 14 Elephants are constantly in contact with one another through infrasound even over long dis tances 15 Infrasounds are sounds we can t hear that animals make which causes a vibration in the air 16 Humans are unable to hear the sounds because the frequen cies are too low 17 If strong enough the frequencies can be felt physically Continue ceca TN FR shoob Photography Which of the following from the first paragraph is an incomplete sentence A vs IO D Elephants are known as one of the most respect
178. thread in fifty yard lengths spun from spools tough as tackle Seamstresses waited at the counters like librarians to be consulted Pens and scissors dangled like awkward pendants across flat chests a scarf of measuring tape flung across a shoulder timeas a pincushion bristled at the wrist They deciphered a dress s blueprints with an architect s keen eye This evidently was a sanctuary a place where women confined with children conferred consulted the oracle the stone tablets of the latest pattern books Here mothers and daughters paused in symmetry offered the proper reverence hushed murmurings for the shauntung silk which required a certain sigh as if it were a piece from the Ming Dynasty i LS shoob Photography 36 37 38 39 40 Al 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 My mother knew there would be no shortcuts and headed for the remnants the leftover bundles with yardage enough for a heart shaped pillow a child s dirndl a blouse without darts Along the aisles my fingertips touched the titles satin tulle velvet peach lavender pistachio sherbet colored linings and settled for the plain brown and white composition of polka dots on kettle cloth my mother held up in triumph She was determined that should sew as if she knew what she herself was missing a moment when she could have come up for air
179. to the incline and the cables and are simple and easy to accomplish Still when attempted a suggested workout the next day it took some hustle to get through it in 30 minutes However users could probably still complete the workout in less than 45 minutes at a reasonable pace Bottom line If you can t join a gym this is a good alternative Cawells Industries advertises the Home Training System as the ultimate home workout for the serious trainer These are not just hollow promises The first clue that this will be a serious machine is the price tag a full 500 more than the FitQuest 2000 The Home Training System does offer almost everything you can think of in a home gym and its 58 exercises are almost double that offered by the FitQuest or Bodyworks Il machines The Home Training System provides a genuine workout that nearly rivals what could be achieved at commercial fitness gyms However this is a gym for someone with plenty of time for training Changing exercise positions on this machine is cumbersome and sometimes more of a workout than the exercises themselves It required almost two hours to assemble It is bulky and would only be considered portable by Arnold Schwarzenegger maybe Bottom line this is a good machine but if you ve got this much time and money join a gym on Back contnve E gt eee ca FR shoob Photography Document B continued Bodyworks II Rank 3 Price 129 Available Mos
180. tone s beauty is awe inspiring A The author expresses how Langford described Yellowstone as a place with a threatening underworld B The author explains that after the Civil War the government funded survey teams to explore the West C The author describes how eager Moran was to tell others about his profound experience at Yellowstone D The author tried to prevent Yellowstone from becoming a national park fearing that tourists would ruin the natural beauty lt Back ON lt a LS shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Reading Comprehension Performance Level Advanced Question 01 These three documents are about a software program You will need to refer to them as you answer the questions that follow Music to Your Ears by Mark Sanders Ba A 8 If you are like most American teenagers you probably own a music CD In fact you may own dozens of the m even hundreds of them Young people are buying more compact discs than ever before As their libraries have grown so has the demand for a way to organize their collections New Generation Software Company has the answer Today the company announced the release of Collector s Catalog a new user friendly software program that allows col lectors to catalog their music collections The database has the capability of maintain ing an inventory of as many as 1 000 CDs The program stores the tracking information such as record titl
181. tylistic Innovations in the Poetry of Walt Whitman Poetry Today 12 2000 27 37 Which source listed in the Works Cited section of the report is a periodical A Adams Wesley The Many Faces of Walt Whitman London Bungalow Publishing 1998 B Moseley Carrie Walt Whitman A Poet for All Time New York Standard Books 2002 C Ryan Tom Whitman An American Voice Chicago Noland 1999 D Stevens Constance Stylistic Innovations in the Poetry of Walt Whitman Poetry Today 12 2000 27 37 Back s lt FR shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Proficient Question 01 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Communicating with a Giant 1 Elephants are known as one of the most respected and magnificent land animals in the world 2 Living peacefully with other creatures is easy for elephants be cause despite their powerful strength they do not abuse their power and they care fully avoid harming other creatures 3 Elephants live together easily 4 Because they communicate well with each other 5 Just like people elephants use body language and sound to communicate easily with one another 6 The positions of an elephant s trunk ears and head communicate 7 When an elephant s ears are outstreched and the head is high it is showing signs of a threat which indicates to smaller elephants that the
182. unched Moran literally began using Yellowstone as his middle name Keen eyed observers will note a tiny monogram on many of his land scapes combining his initials TM with a Y for the park that became such a part of his identity 19 Moran continued to explore the West producing canvases so precise that even today geologists can identify rock formations from studying his works By the time he died in 1926 at age 89 Moran had created some 1000 oils ore than 2000 magazine illustrations and over 300 watercolors LS shoob Photography 20 The artist s greatest legacy however was to future generations The establish ment of Yellowstone National Park led to the development of the National Park Ser vice which now administers more than 350 sites including national parks battlefields and memorials attracting more than 265 million visitors a year 21 It s not surprising then that Thomas Moran has been called the Father of the National Parks What his landscapes proved said Stephen Tyng Mather director of the Park Service in the 1920s was that an American did not have to leave his native shores to look on something more wonderful than the Alps Copyright 1997 Cliff Yudell Used by permission of Cliff Yudell a Miami based writer and artist Which question could be answered by doing fact based research A What is the most dramatic part of Yellowstone B Which period of Moran s life most l
183. urs each city is ahead of or behind London i Sy shoob Photography USING THE 100 YEAR CALENDAR You can view the calendar for the years 1950 to 2050 1 Press CAL twice The four digits representing the year will begin to flash Depress and hold down the A or V key until the desired year flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing the month will begin to flash Press SET The calendar for the month and year you have selected will display 2 3 4 Depress and hold down the A or V key until the desired month flashes Then release 5 6 To return to the current clock calendar display press CAL once If you live in London what is the difference in time between your home and Los Angeles A 10 hours B 8 hours 6 hours D 12 hours Grade 10 English Language Arts Word Analysis Fluency and Systematic Vocabulary Development Performance Level Advanced Question 01 20 25 30 Pub I m in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor Sometimes people ask me Aren t you lonely out there with just desert around you guess they mean the beargrass and the yuccas and the cactus and the rocks guess they mean the deep ravines and the hawk nests in the cliffs and the coyote trails that wind across the hills Lonely can t help laughing when they ask me that always look at them surprised And say How could be lonely I m t
184. vely enlarged and retrieved with ease If you are a serious music collector this news should be music to your ears R Shoob Photography Bibliography American Marketing Resources Keeping Pace With Consumer Demand The Kilmartin Report Washington Capitol Hill Press 1999 Brown Jamar What s New in Software Software Inside News 1 January 2000 sec B 4 Compact Discs The Universal Encyclopedia of Technology 1998 ed Hauser Melanie Compact Disc Packaging Analysis Music Plus Digest 15 December 2000 32 Larkin Esther Not Compact Enough Solving the Music Storage Question London Choice Publications 1998 Valez Hector Working Teens as Consumers Los Angeles Victory Press 1996 Back Continue i LS shoob Photography Solving the Organizati on Puzzle _ Collector s Catalog is the hottest new database 3 a B L see software program fo y oe wae classifying and managing SPR i _ C gt compact disc collections a Imagine No more digging through E a boxes or stacks of CDs to find what you Sa a re entire collection is just a mouse click away Collector s j want With Coffecitor s Catafug your __ L r cataloging m a Catalan Cataiog It s no puzzle why Collector s Catalog 39 is America s 1 choice Document B or 3 Use the TAB key to move from one field to the next until you h
185. weight and look better i LS shoob Photography Document B continued FitQuest 2000 Rank 1 Price 199 Available Most large department stores The FitQuest 2000 turned out to be a great little home gym It was not the most expen sive nor did it offer the most options but it was fast easy to use and left me feeling like I d had a real workout The first pleasant surprise was opening the box to find it fully assembled The FitQuest easily unpacked and unfolded and within ten minutes was working out Using the enclosed wall chart and operating instructions was able to perform all 20 of the exercises the machine claims to offer Note FitQuest does not recommend doing all 20 exercises during each workout The machine is fast The only adjustments between exercises are to the incline and the cables and are simple and easy to accomplish Still when attempted a suggested workout the next day it took some hustle to get through it in 30 minutes However users could probably still complete the workout in less than 45 minutes at a reasonable pace Bottom line If you can t join a gym this is a good alternative Cawells Industries advertises the Home Training System as the ultimate home workout for the serious trainer These are not just hollow promises The first clue that this will be a serious machine is the price tag a full 500 more than the FitQuest 2000 The Home Training System does offer almost ev
186. wentieth century these three artists began a new art form called Mexican Muralism 6 Rather than create paintings that would be housed in homes or museums and be seen by only a small number of people the muralists used prominent public buildings as their canvases 7 Their murals contained images of important social issues of their time and were painted in mostly neutral colors 8 In the 1920s and 1930s these artists traviled to the United States and painted murals in major cities like Los Angeles and New York 9 In the 1960s and 1970s Mexican Muralism had a rebirth in the southwestern part of the United States 10 This happening was called the Chicano Mural Movement 11 The Chicano Mural Move ment again used public buildings on which to create images 12 Many of these works of art captured and expressed a unique culture and heritage 13 A large number of these striking murals can still be seen in California Texas and Arizona Read this sentence This happening was called the Chicano Mural Movement Which words would best replace happening in the sentence to be consistent with the tone of the essay cool event artistic develooment amazing stuff SU i f actions U 0O gt Continue ee azar LQ shoot Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Basic Question 09 The following is a rough draft of a student s report It contains errors Eurle
187. would be no shortcuts and headed for the remnants the leftover bundles with yardage enough for a heart shaped pillow a child s dirndl a blouse without darts Along the aisles my fingertips touched the titles satin tulle velvet peach lavender pistachio sherbet colored linings and settled for the plain brown and white composition of polka dots on kettle cloth my mother held up in triumph She was determined that should sew as if she knew what she herself was missing a moment when she could have come up for air the children asleep the dishes drying on the rack and turned on the lamp and pulled back the curtain of sleep To inhabit the night the night as a black cloth white paper a sheet of music in which she might find herself singing On Saturdays at Mrs Umemoto s sewing school when took my place beside the other girls bent my head and went to work my foot keeping time on the pedal it was to learn the charitable oblivion of hand and mind as one a refuge such music affords the maker the pleasure of notes in perfectly measured time The Grammar of Silk is from School Figures by Cathy Song 1994 Reprinted by permission of the Uni versity of Pittsburgh Press Compted ard oe LS shoob Photography Which word from Those Winter Sundays is derived from a Greek word meaning time A labor B weather thanked D chronic Back a S27 LQ
188. xpensive of the three did provide a good workout Its 35 posi tions were slightly more than the FitQuest though less than the Home Training System It also came unassembled but was not as difficult to put together as the Home Training System Though some of the exercises were a bit awkward none seemed dangerous Changing positions however was somewhat difficult and seemed to make a 30 min ute workout unlikely unless limited to three or four exercises Though the machine is not bulky and can easily fit under a bed it is heavy and unfolding it was a challenge Its caster wheels are not adequate for pushing it more than a few feet Bottom line You can get a good workout from this machine but if you can afford it soend a little more for the FitQuest 2000 Document C FitQuest 2000 5 Year Limited Warranty j lt If your FitQuest 2000 fails structurally during normal usage we will repair or replace it without charge to you Parts cables and labor are included This warranty is not e transferable and does not cover the failure of FitQuest 2000 machines used com mercially or for institutional purposes The warranty excludes failure caused by da unreasonable or abusive use improper assembly following user performed disas sembly or failure to provide reasonable and necessary care and maintenance _ Please consult the User s Manual for maintenance and care instructions FitQuest ee shall not be liable for shipping or packaging charges to or
189. y is ahead of or behind London Continue ae i SJ shoob Photography USING THE 100 YEAR CALENDAR You can view the calendar for the years 1950 to 2050 i 2 p AY Press CAL twice The four digits representing the year will begin to flash Depress and hold down the A or V key until the desired year flashes Then release Press SET The two digits representing the month will begin to flash Depress and hold down the A or V key until the desired month flashes Then release Press SET The calendar for the month and year you have selected will display To return to the current clock calendar display press CAL once Read this sentence from the passage Depress and hold the Aor V key until the desired hour flashes In which sentence does depress have the same meaning as it does in the sentence above A The slow mournful music was beginning to depress Maddie B The flood of CD players on the market served to depress their price C lan had to depress the lever several times to get the jack to the proper height D According to one economist another drop in employment could depress the economy lt a fe shoob Photography Grade 10 English Language Arts Writing Strategies Performance Level Advanced Question 01 Kevin s teacher asked her students to write about someone who overcame obstacles and became a success Below is Kevin s rough draft which may contain errors Julia
190. y knees on the quilting of my sleeping bag it trod out a spot for itself and then with a serene little groan curled up and lay perfectly still That made two of us was wildly awake trying to forget the sharpness and number of skunk teeth trying not to think of the high percentage of skunks with rabies 3 Inside the bag felt as if might smother Carefully making only the slightest of rustles drew the bag away from my face and took a deep breath of the night air enriched with skunk but clear and watery and cold If wasn t so bad and the skunk didn t stir at all so watched the moon caught that night in an envelope of silk a mist pass over my sleeping field of teenage guts and glory The grass harbored a sere dust both old and fresh smelled the heat of spent growth beneath the rank tone of my bag mate the stiff fragrance of damp earth and the thick pungency of newly manured fields a mile or two away along with my sleeping bag s smell slightly mil dewed forever smoky The skunk settled even closer and began to breathe rapidly its feet jerked a little like a dog s sank against the earth and fell asleep too LS shoob Photography 4 Of what easily tipped cans what molten sludge what dogs in yards on chains what leftover macaroni casseroles what cellar holes crawl spaces burrows taken from meek woodchucks of what miracles of garbage did my skunk dream Or did it since we can t be sure d
191. y perfectly still That made two of us was wildly awake trying to forget the sharpness and number of skunk teeth trying not to think of the high percentage of skunks with rabies 3 Inside the bag felt as if might smother Carefully making only the slightest of rustles drew the bag away from my face and took a deep breath of the night air enriched with skunk but clear and watery and cold It wasn t so bad and the skunk didn t stir at all so watched the moon caught that night in an envelope of silk a mist pass over my sleeping field of teenage guts and glory The grass harbored a sere dust both old and fresh smelled the heat of spent growth beneath the rank tone of my bag mate the stiff fragrance of damp earth and the thick pungency of newly manured fields a mile or two away along with my sleeping bag s smell slightly mil dewed forever smoky The skunk settled even closer and began to breathe rapidly its feet jerked a little like a dog s sank against the earth and fell asleep too en oa LS shoob Photography Back conne ED 4 Of what easily tipped cans what molten sludge what dogs in yards on chains what leftover macaroni casseroles what cellar holes crawl spaces burrows taken from meek woodchucks of what miracles of garbage did my skunk dream Or did it since we can t be sure dream the plot of Moby Dick how to properly age Parmesan or how to restore the brick walled tumbledown cr
192. y should move away 8 They recognize one another by sight smell and voice 9 Greetings to one another are communicat ed between two elephants by entwining their trunks and touching cheeks 10 A variety of sounds make up their language including the rumbling sound produced in the larynx and the high pitched trumpet like sound produced with a raised trunk 11 Elephants are animals that love to chatter when they are around each other 12 A purring vibration can indicate pleasure when two meet 13 On the other hand their throats let out a rumbling sound when they are in pain 14 Elephants are constantly in contact with one another through infrasound even over long dis tances 15 Infrasounds are sounds we can t hear that animals make which causes a vibration in the air 16 Humans are unable to hear the sounds because the frequen cies are too low 17 If strong enough the frequencies can be felt physically lt FR shoob Photography Which of the following would improve the structure of sentence 15 A vs IO U Infrasounds which animals make are sounds which causes a vibration in the air which is an inaudible sound Infrasounds inaudible to humans are vibrations in the air caused by animals Infrasounds are sounds we can t hear that animals make that cause a vibration in the air Infrasounds are sounds humans can t hear that animals make that make a vi bration in the air Back N
193. y too amazingly hot for me Parts of Death Valley receive fewer than two inches of rain in an entire year This extremely low rainfall is caused by the rainshadow effect 2 Death Valley National Park is either 3 367 628 acres or 3 396 192 acres depending on which source you believe The park includes the valley itself and the surrounding mountains In spite of the name of the park and its hard climatic conditions Death Valley is alive More than 970 types of plants grow there including not only cactus but also grasses shrubs and even trees like juniper pine and mesquite Most of the trees grow in the mountains where the air is cooler and there is more water 3 The park is alive with birds reptiles and amphibians too Most are nocturnal There are scores of bird species as well as many reptiles and a few amphibians Tortoises lizards and snakes including rattlesnakes are among the reptile population Amphibians include a few kinds of frogs and toads and one species of salamander 4 Small mammals including mice rats squirrels and bats also live in the park So do larger ones like foxes coyotes badgers bobcats mountain lions deer and bighorn sheep The burro and the horse while not native species also survive and thrive in Death Valley There is an even more surprising fact there are fish in Death Valley They live in the park s springs streams and ponds FR shoob Photography Which word in
194. yden edited by Frederick Glaysher Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation i LS shoot Photography CONA OaBKWDN WWWWWNHONNNNNNNNN VP 2 gt O RwWN OD NUODAOAN A A KWH OYWVSVONO A AOOAAR ON O The Grammar of Silk by Cathy Song On Saturdays in the morning my mother sent me to Mrs Umemoto s sewing school It was cool and airy in her basement pleasant a word choose to use years later to describe the long tables where we sat and cut pinned and stitched the Singer s companionable whirr the crisp clever bite of scissors parting like silver fish a river of calico The school was in walking distance to Kaimuki Dry Goods where my mother purchased my supplies small cards of buttons zippers and rickrack packaged like licorice lifesaver rolls of thread in fifty yard lengths spun from spools tough as tackle Seamstresses waited at the counters like librarians to be consulted Pens and scissors dangled like awkward pendants across flat chests a scarf of measuring tape flung across a shoulder timeas a pincushion bristled at the wrist They deciphered a dress s blueprints with an architect s keen eye This evidently was a sanctuary a place where women confined with children conferred consulted the oracle the stone tablets of the latest pattern books Here mothers and daughters paused in symmetry offered the proper reverence hu

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