ESL 4 Week 2 Gallag er

100 Words of Classroom Text Passage Analysis

April

T is is ! ere yo" !ill "pload a one page analysis of a passage from a #lass room text t at as 100 !ords in order to determine t e n"m$er of r"les ne#essary to a##o"nt for t e letter%so"nd #orresponden#es& 'e s"re to type yo"r name( t e text so"r#e and page( t e passage of 100 !ords and yo"r findings&

I am using the same textbook that I used for the reading analysis: '))* T+TLE, -ealt . Wellness P/'L+S-E0, 1#Gra!%-ill2Glen#oe C)P30+G-T, 2004 A/T-)0S, L& 1eeks( P& -eit( 0& Page G0A5E LE6EL . S/'7ECT, -ig S# ool -ealt ( approximately grades 10%11 TE8T PASSAGE, page 49 T)P+C, Personality and 5e:eloping a -ealt y 1ind

Personality: An individuals unique pattern of characteristics is called personality. Your heredity helps determine your intellectual abilities, temperament, and talents. For example, your heredity influences your athletic ability and artistic capabilities. It influences the degree to hich you are resilient. Your environment includes everything that is around you. !here you live and the people ith hom you have contact influence your personality. Your environment influences the opportunities you have. "he feeling or emotion a person has to ard something or someone is an attitude. Your attitudes influence your personality. Your behavior is hat you do. !hat you do influences your personality.
The same passage, entered into an online phonetic converter:

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