Reread "Learning a Second Language: Is It Worth It?" As you reread, use the Checklist for Argumentative Text Structure on page 56 to analyze the text and make annotations. Then use your annotations, your own ideas and reactions to the text, and any other notes you have to complete the Write activity, INFORMATIVE WRITE Analyze how the Counterpoint author uses reasons, evidence, details, and counterclaims to communicate a claim about learning a second language and to differentiate their position from that of the author of the Point section. Discuss how the Counterpoint author develops this claim over the course of the text, including how it is shaped and refined by specific details.

Is not only unethical, it is also illegal. a. ethnocentrism b. plagiarism c. interpersonal conflict d. criticism

How can you tell that the text is from a biography

What is the effect of narrator's word choice on the tone of this passage? the words "my heart shrank within itself" create a fearful tone. the words "wounded his fellow" develop a remorseful tone. the words "struck harsh upon my ears" suggest an irritated tone. the words "better-omened" set a hopeful tone. excerpt from "the cabuliwallah" by rabindranath tagore i was sitting in my study, looking through the accounts, when some one entered, saluting respectfully, and stood before me. it was rahmun the cabuliwallah. at first i did not recognise him. he had no bag, nor the long hair, nor the same vigour that he used to have. but he smiled, and i knew him again. "when did you come, rahmun? " i asked him. "last evening," he said, "i was released from jail." the words struck harsh upon my ears. i had never before talked with one who had wounded his fellow, and my heart shrank within itself when i realised this; for i felt that the day would have been better-omened had he not turned up.