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Reading Exercise

Activity 6

Directions: Read the work of Zora Neale Hurston entitled "How It Feels to be Colored
Me" and answer the given questions in at least 5-10 sentences. Write your answer on the
given worksheet and submit your answer to ION using this file name:
CN_FamilyName_Activity6.

1. What personal information or details did the writer reveal about herself?

2. How do you find the characterization of a story?

3. What point is Hurston trying to make in her first paragraph, “the only Negro in the
United.”?

4. Consider Hurston’s use of imagination in her descriptions of the white neighbor,

her experience at the jazz club, and in the final paragraph. How does she use
specific details to ground these flights of imagination? How does she use the
imaginative moments to make her points?

5. What is the central idea of the essay?

6. What is the conflict of the given essay?

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Your output in each activity will be assessed according to the following criteria.

CONTENT (20 points)

 The essay used more precise, vivid, and descriptive words to develop content.
 The content was insightful and interesting.
ORGANIZATION AND COHERENCE (15 points)
 Ideas were logically arranged.
 Ideas was coherent and cohesive
CREATIVITY (15 points)
 The essay use three or more precise unique figurative language to describe
situations, objects, and people.
 Ideas were creative and inventive
Total: 50 points
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Writing Exercise

Activity 7

Directions: Think of the things that make you unique: (your style, your sense of humor, the
way you keep yourself as an individual and the best skills you possess). Of all the qualities
and behaviors that make you who you are, which one do you think best define your
personality? Write atleast 3 paragraph essay and please be guided with the given criteria.

What Makes You “You”?

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Your output in each activity will be assessed according to the following criteria.

CONTENT (20 points)

 The essay used more precise, vivid, and descriptive words to develop content.
 The content was insightful and interesting.
ORGANIZATION AND COHERENCE (15 points)
 Ideas were logically arranged.
 Ideas was coherent and cohesive
CREATIVITY (15 points)
 The essay use three or more precise unique figurative language to describe
situations, objects, and people.
 Ideas were creative and inventive
Total: 50 points