ShmoopTube

Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.

Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos

Texas EOC English 2: 4.5 Revision 169 Views


Share It!


Description:

Language:
English Language

Transcript

00:00

Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

00:05

jour Brought to you by graduation Remember to keep your

00:08

gown it's the one outfit you won't outgrow Really Check

00:12

out the falling fast age My plans for the future

00:15

All right Uh george whale or shakespeare Right there When

00:19

i graduate from high school have to becoming a doctor

00:23

is very long And i see myself having i'll find

00:29

writing their people All right maria would like to revise

00:33

sentence thirteen to provide a more effective and sophisticated conclusion

00:37

Which of the following is the best revision And here

00:39

a potential answers and long cross and doctor Okay uh

00:48

well maria has correctly diagnosed that her rough draft of

00:51

sentence thirteen is in need of immediate attention Let's Hope

00:55

it's insured all the kindly people of geek Oh yeah

00:58

that little worm thing And what is that A lizard

01:01

that's Good All right The issue is that the third

01:04

paragraph discusses maria's long term career plans And then the

01:08

final sentence abruptly takes us back to the first step

01:11

in her path to medical glory in order to transition

01:14

back the first step in a way that actually wraps

01:16

up the essay we need to tie maria's ultimate goal

01:20

of being a doctor not just playing it to the

01:22

place where maria is now let's See which one of

01:25

these choices passes the test Well option d fails and

01:29

fails miserably this one's even more abroad than the original

01:32

sentence It's slaps us in the face with high school

01:35

and college without recognizing the entire essay before it Come

01:39

on Hey is an awful but it's kind of wishy

01:42

washy The claws this is all a long process is

01:46

just big and bad writing Come on people And particularly

01:50

you maria that you were looking at Yeah let's keep

01:52

looking All right You don't have to settle for this

01:54

Let's Go Option c does begin by recognizing the rest

01:58

of the essay So good job there but beginning the

02:01

sentence with although it doesn't make any sense Yeah that

02:05

is the best answer It begins by recognizing the long

02:08

track to dr dumb described by the rest of the

02:11

essay and ties the whole joining directly to where maria

02:14

is in the process Now when maria finally gets her

02:16

medical license well we're gonna have to have her take 00:02:18.955 --> [endTime] A look at this rash Not pretty Oh

Up Next

Texas EOC English 2: 2.4 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
622 Views

Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Head over to /video/subjects/test-prep/texas-eoc-ii/texas-eoc-english-ii/ f...

Related Videos

Texas EOC English 2: 4.2 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
660 Views

Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Click on this link for more Texas EOC goodness. Porridge not included. 

Texas EOC English 2: 1.2 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres
207 Views

Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Click on this link for more Texas EOC goodness. Porridge not included. 

Texas EOC English 2: 1.3 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres
194 Views

Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Head over to /video/subjects/test-prep/texas-eoc-ii/texas-eoc-english-ii/ f...