Week 8: English 1C Mainstream and Extended Tutorial Activity

1. This activity has two sections: Section A and Section B. Answer all questions in each
section.
2. Submit your complete assessment to your tutor during the tutorial session on the
applicable date of your tutorial in week 8.
3. Attach a cover page with your details (student number, Surname, initials, and tutorial
group number) clearly written and signed plagiarism declaration.
4. For section B, attach a copy of the text you referred to and provide bibliographic
referencing.
5. Your assignment must be typed in Arial 12 with 1.5 spacing between the lines.
Section A
Read through the following text, answer the questions/do the activities that follow.
Rid our schools of this scourge of drugs and teenage pregnancy.
Recent shocking media reports revealing that 26 students of a school in Rwamagana were
found pregnant prompted a police investigation into the matter.
But while the general public has hastened to blame the school authorities for their perceived
negligence and the Ministry of Education for the absence of a policy that requires routine
pregnancy tests on schoolgirls, teenage pregnancy should be placed squarely at the door of
society.
It is an adult problem: It is caused by adults and must be solved by them.
Teenage pregnancy should be viewed not only as a reproductive health issue. If more
children were born to parents who are ready and able to care for them, we would see a
significant reduction in a host of social problems afflicting children-from school failure and
crime to child abuse and neglect.
Unplanned pregnancy among young people is another factor at the root of important public
health and social challenges. That and, in particular, unwanted pregnancy, have a wide range
of serious consequences.
While sexual abstinence should be encouraged, adequate reproductive health services ought
to be extended to those who do not abstain.
Reality demands that parents teach their sextually active teenagers and adolescents how to
protect themselves.
Prevention is always better than cure: More effort is needed to promote sex education, which
will allow the youth to access information that reduces the risks associated with teenage
pregnancies and unprotected sex.
The solution should not be left only to school authorities or government officials; parents
should not shy away from the duty off educating their children about reproductive health.
They should become better role models.
The prevailing pregnancies also came in the midst of rising cases of drug abuse, mainly in
secondary schools.
Drugs have no place in our society; more so in academic environment where teens spend
most of their formative years. They severely impair the user’s academic performance and
level of responsibility in society.
One could argue that teenage drug abuse has reached epidemic proportions in some schools-
particularly the well-to-do, so-called high-cost schools in which many put their trust that their
children are safer than their peers in public institutions.
In addition to narcotics, alcohol-one of the most abused drugs today-is also among the most
popular and available of all drugs and controlled substances on high school campuses.
For this menace to be wiped out, concerted efforts need to be made to not only help the
victims but also stop the culprits-lest it decimates an entire generation.
Question 1
1. Find an example of a fact from the text
1.2 Find an example of an opinion from the text.
1.3 Briefly explain why you identified your answer in 1.1 as a fact and your answer in 1.2
as an opinion.
1.4 Where would you expect this type of text to be published? Give one reason for your
answer.
1.5 Using the external and internal evaluation of sources, would this text be suitable for
an assignment about teenage pregnancy? Provide reasons for your answer.
Question 2
Find a text (a maximum of three paragraphs in length) about teenage pregnancy written in an
academic style and answer the following questions.
2.1 Provide a reference for the text you have found in Harvard style.
2.2 Provide an integral and non-integral in-text citation for the text.
2.3 Identify TWO specific features of the text that make you classify it as academic and
supply ONE suitable example from the text for each feature to justify your answer.
2.4 In which discipline would you expect the text to be studied?
2.5 Briefly explain your answer in 3.2 above by identifying TWO terms that the text features
which relate it to the discipline you mentioned above.