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buy milk cows, or rickshaws, or thread in order to create a livelihood for themselves and their families. I have met the doctors and nurses in Belarus and Ukraine who are trying to keep children alive in the aftermath of Chernobyl.
6 The great challenge of this conference is to give voice to women everywhere whose experiences go unnoticed, whose words go unheard. Women comprise more than half the world’s population, 70% of the world’s poor, and two-thirds of those who are not taught to read and write. We are the primary caretakers for most of the world’s children and elderly. Yet much of the work we do is not valued — not by economists, not by historians, not by popular culture, not by government leaders.
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A phrase is a small group of words that functions as a part of speech within a sentence. A phrase may act as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, or preposition.
A clause has both a subject and verb. If the clause can stand alone as a complete sentence, it is an independent clause. If the clause does not form a complete idea, it is a
Those of us who have the opportunity to be here have the responsibility to speak for those who could not. As an American, I want to speak for those women in my own country, women who are raising children on the minimum wage, women who can’t afford health care or child care, women whose lives are threatened by violence, including violence in their own homes.
Second Read
• Reread the speeches to answer these text-dependent questions.
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• Write any additional questions you have about the texts in your Reader/Writer dependent clause. Notebook. Coordinating conjunctions
1. Key Ideas and Details: What is Sojourner Truth’s response to the argument that women are weak and need to be taken care of? Find details in the text that help you answer the question.
2. Craft and Structure: What might “out of kilter” mean in the first sentence? Use context clues to infer the meaning of the word.
3. Craft and Structure: Throughout the speech, Truth mentions what other people are saying about equal rights. How does she respond to each of these statements? Cite examples from the text.
4. Key Ideas and Details: What is the main claim of Clinton’s speech? Find sentences in the text that help you answer the question.
connect words, phrases, and clauses. Examples are and, or, but, yet, nor, for, and so.
My Notes
Unit 2 • What Influences My Choices? 143
comprise: make up
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