Honors English II January 11th-January 15th Monday, January 11 Write 3 sentences using semicolons, and two sentences using colons. Wednesday, January 13 Arthur Conan Doyle’s great sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, was superrational, and the famous author himself was the world’s best-known advocate of spiritualism, the belief that human personality survives death and that the living can communicate with the dead. Nevertheless, spiritualism was all the rage around the turn of the twentieth century. Séances, rapping, table turning, automatic writing, and other occult methods of contacting the spiritual world attracted thousands. Doyle was the antithesis of a man who would try communicating with the dead; and after converting to Spiritualism, he set about trying to convert others. A) NO CHANGE B) since C) that is G) No, because it elaborates on D) but spiritualism. H) Yes, because the information is not relevant to the point and interrupts the flow of the passage. The author deleted the following J) Yes, because people then didn’t use sentence, which was originally placed psychics. after the first sentence. Even today, people look to psychics for help and advice from other worlds and A) NO CHANGE past lives. B) And yet C) In spite of this Was deleting the sentence a good D) Delete Nevertheless and correct the decision? capitalization. F) No, because it connects the spiritualism of the past to today’s F) NO CHANGE reader. G) so H) however, J) therefore,
Honors English II January 11th-January 15th Monday, January 11 Write 3 sentences using semicolons, and two sentences using colons. Wednesday, January 13 Arthur Conan Doyle’s great sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, was superrational, and the famous author himself was the world’s best-known advocate of spiritualism, the belief that human personality survives death and that the living can communicate with the dead. Nevertheless, spiritualism was all the rage around the turn of the twentieth century. Séances, rapping, table turning, automatic writing, and other occult methods of contacting the spiritual world attracted thousands. Doyle was the antithesis of a man who would try communicating with the dead; and after converting to Spiritualism, he set about trying to convert others. A) NO CHANGE B) since C) that is D) but The author deleted the following sentence, which was originally placed after the first sentence. Even today, people look to psychics for help and advice from other worlds and past lives. Was deleting the sentence a good decision? F) No, because it connects the spiritualism of the past to today’s reader. G) No, because it elaborates on spiritualism. H) Yes, because the information is not relevant to the point and interrupts the flow of the passage. J) Yes, because people then didn’t use psychics. A) NO CHANGE B) And yet C) In spite of this D) Delete Nevertheless and correct the capitalization. F) NO CHANGE G) so H) however, J) therefore,
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