SEQUENCE MARKERS

1. And- used as a function word to indicate

connection or addition especially of items within

the same class or type

2. Then- following next after in order of position,

narration, or enumeration

3. But- except for the fact

4. Yet- often used to imply the negative of a following

infinitive

5. First- preceding all others in time, order, or

importance

6. End- the part of an area that lies at the boundary

7. From- used as a function word to indicate a

starting point of a physical movement or a starting

point in measuring or reckoning or in a statement

of limits

8. Before- at an earlier time

9. After- following in time or place

10. Second- next to the first in place or time

 PUNCTUATION MARKS

1. Period (punctuation) A period (in America) is a full stop (.) It

is a punctuation mark (.) at the end of a sentence. It shows
that the sentence has finished.
2. The apostrophe has two functions: it marks possession, and

it is used in contractions to indicate the place where the

letters have been omitted. Possession. In singular,

possession is marked by 's, written immediately after the

possessor.

3. A colon instead of a semicolon may be used between

independent clauses when the second sentence explains,

illustrates, paraphrases, or expands on the first sentence.

Example: He got what he worked for: he really earned that

promotion.

4. The semicolon or semi colon (;) is a punctuation mark that

separates major sentence elements. A semicolon can be

used between two closely related independent clauses,

provided they are not already joined by a coordinating

conjunction.

5. A hyphen (-) is a punctuation mark that's used to join words

or parts of words. ... A dash is longer than a hyphen and is

commonly used to indicate a range or a pause. The most

common types of dashes are the en dash (–) and the

em dash (—).
 INFORMATIVE TEXT

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and

the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you
believe is great work. And the only way to do great
work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet,
keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the
heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great
relationship, it just gets better and better as the years
roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

“Television and Elvis gave us full access to a new

language; a new form of communication; a new way
of being; a new way of looking; a new way of thinking
about sex, about race, about identity, about life; a
new way of being an American, a human being and a
new way of hearing music. Once Elvis came across
the airwaves, once he was heard and seen in action,
you could not put the genie back in the bottle. After
that moment, there was yesterday, and there was
today, and there was a red hot, rockabilly forging of a
new tomorrow before your very eyes.”
 LITERARY TEXT

Susan Sanders did not like the rain. Whenever it rained, dark clouds would
cover the sky and block out the sun, making the entire day seem dreary and
gray. If it rained on a chilly day, then the day seemed even colder and more
miserable than before. Moreover, regardless of the temperature, rain meant
that Susan’s hair would get frizzy and messed up no matter how much time
she spent on it. Even a few raindrops were enough to undo an entire morning’s
worth of styling. As far as Susan was concerned, rain was certainly not her
friend.

“Girl” commands to help prevent her daughter from becoming a slut. “the slut
that she is so bent on becoming.”(DiYann, 2007, Pp 397) There is not much
difference in a cultural relationship between mothers and daughters in the
past to the present day. The mother wants to pass on the necessary cultural
and moral practices and values that she was taught by her mother. In both
points of view, the narrator is speaking in the first person. In Girl by Jamaica
Kincaid, the mother is referring to herself as “I” for example; “the slut I know
you are so bent on becoming” and “the slut I have warned you against
becoming.” (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 397) Mrs. Johnson, an uneducated woman, tells
the story herself. Mrs. Johnson said, “I never had an education myself.”
(DiYanni, 2007, Pp 745) The church raised money to help send Dee to school
in Augusta, GA. (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 744). The stories both depict a social and
economic view on how life was. Girl by Jamaica Kincaid showed the economy
by how she brought to attention in pp 397; “don’t sing benna in Sunday school;
you mustn’t speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions.” Critics
appreciate the quality of how Kincaid and Walker represented the image of
how mother and daughters bond and how powerful one person can effect one’s
life. The reader learns a particularly relationship operates in a colonial culture
and in the deep south of Georgia. Both writers use the observation of life to
validate their experiences in their own life. Both writers used this technique
to authenticate oppressed group of people: lower class, black women. This is
point of view is also shared with the oppressing of a group of people by the
poem by Langston Hughes; Dream Deferred and Woody Guthrie’s poem This
Land Is Your Land.
 JOURNALISTIC TEXT

A special edition of the newspaper to celebrate

Dairy Month. I wrote five articles for the edition
and was awarded a prize in journalism from the
New York State Department of Agriculture for
my depiction of the lives of the dairy farmers
and the state of the industry.

Wrote movie and theater reviews for various

newspapers in upstate New York and California
between 1977 and 1979. Movies included Star
Wars, Rocky, Slapshot, Bound for Glory. Theater
productions included stagings of Bus Stop, The
Corn is Green, The Innocents, and A Taste of
Honey.
 PORTFOLIO
IN
ENGLISH

SUBMITTED BY:
SEAN KYLE JEREMIAH MELCHOR

SUBMITTED TO: MRS NORA DIZON