Exam 9: Dividing and Classifying

Why should examples used in a division and classification paragraph share a common trait?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What do feelers analyze?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -How many food groups does the author identify?

On the surface, the leather motorcycle jacket is a comparatively simple creation. It comes in two basic designs: The plainer of the two is a single-breasted version with two vertical side pockets and a center zipper. However, Brando, Dean, and a million lookalikes have always favored the more exotic (and original) double-breasted number with asymmetrical front zipper to provide the wearer with a double layer of chest protection, created by the Schott Brothers Leather Company in 1928 and copied ad infinitum ever since. "Grandpa Schott was commissioned by Harley-Davidson to come up with a jacket for bikers-there was nothing made especially for bikers before then," says Roz Schott, the company's vice president. Both styles have two short zips on the sleeve that can close the cuffs tight on the wrists to prevent ballooning and protect the arms in a wipeout. -Mick Farren -How does the author organize this paragraph?

On the surface, the leather motorcycle jacket is a comparatively simple creation. It comes in two basic designs: The plainer of the two is a single-breasted version with two vertical side pockets and a center zipper. However, Brando, Dean, and a million lookalikes have always favored the more exotic (and original) double-breasted number with asymmetrical front zipper to provide the wearer with a double layer of chest protection, created by the Schott Brothers Leather Company in 1928 and copied ad infinitum ever since. "Grandpa Schott was commissioned by Harley-Davidson to come up with a jacket for bikers-there was nothing made especially for bikers before then," says Roz Schott, the company's vice president. Both styles have two short zips on the sleeve that can close the cuffs tight on the wrists to prevent ballooning and protect the arms in a wipeout. -Mick Farren -What is Farren's general message or purpose in this paragraph?

On the surface, the leather motorcycle jacket is a comparatively simple creation. It comes in two basic designs: The plainer of the two is a single-breasted version with two vertical side pockets and a center zipper. However, Brando, Dean, and a million lookalikes have always favored the more exotic (and original) double-breasted number with asymmetrical front zipper to provide the wearer with a double layer of chest protection, created by the Schott Brothers Leather Company in 1928 and copied ad infinitum ever since. "Grandpa Schott was commissioned by Harley-Davidson to come up with a jacket for bikers-there was nothing made especially for bikers before then," says Roz Schott, the company's vice president. Both styles have two short zips on the sleeve that can close the cuffs tight on the wrists to prevent ballooning and protect the arms in a wipeout. -Mick Farren -When does this paragraph move from one to many? From many to one? Division:________________________________________________________ Classification: ___________________________________________________

An effective dividing and classifying paragraph is ___________________ organized.

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. Consider three ideas, proposed in perfect seriousness to explain that greatest of all titillating puzzles-the extinction of dinosaurs. Since these three notions invoke the primally fascinating themes of our culture-sex, drugs, and violence-they surely reside in the category of fascinating claims… . 1. Sex: Testes function only in a narrow range of temperature (those of mammals hang externally in a scrotal sac because internal body temperatures are too high for their proper function). A worldwide rise in temperature at the close of the Cretaceous period caused the testes of dinosaurs to stop functioning and led to their extinction by sterilization of males. 2. Drugs: Angiosperms (flowering plants) first evolved toward the end of the dinosaurs' reign. Many of these plants contain psychoactive agents, avoided by mammals today as a result of their bitter taste. Dinosaurs had neither means to taste the bitterness nor livers effective enough to detoxify the substances. They died of massive overdoses. 3. Disasters: A large comet or asteroid struck the Earth some 65 million years ago, lofting a cloud of dust into the sky and blocking sunlight, thereby suppressing photosynthesis and so drastically lowering world temperatures that dinosaurs and hosts of other creatures became extinct -Stephen Jay Gould -When does this paragraph move from one to many? From many to one? Division:________________________________________________________ Classification: ___________________________________________________

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Added sugars means more calories without more __________________.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Camille Lavington divides personalities into seven classifications. Judging from the way that she describes them and the way she organizes her essay, what do you think her personality type is? Explain.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Oils are high in calories , but they are also an important source of nutrients like vitamin E.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Ironically , introverts often have meaningful friendships.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Has Lavington adequately described each personality? If she were to make the essay longer, what would you suggest she add?

The ancient rites of male initiation were complicated and subtle experiences which could be imagined better as a continual spiral than as a walk down a road. The spiral could be described as a year which repeats itself in seasons. The four seasons of male development amount to four stages, four steps, and four events, though we all know that seasons run into each other, and repeat. The four seasons, or stages, … are bonding with and separation from the mother; bonding with and separation from the father; finding of the male mother; and the interior marriage or marriage with the Hidden Woman. -Robert Bly -When does this paragraph move from one to many? From many to one? Division:_________________________________________________________ Classification: ____________________________________________________

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Look for grain choices that are low in saturated and trans fat and low in added sugar when possible.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Sometimes _______________ get a bum rap, which is a shame because delicious ____________ come in a wide variety of colors and flavors.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Do you think this essay has a main argument? What is it? Is the argument convincing?

Which organization is the most effective in a division and classification paragraph?

How are division and classification related?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What type of fish contain the element mercury?