“The Clan of One-Breasted Women.”
by Terry Tempest Williams

1. Lines 1-17: What is the effect that the author presents in the first paragraph? What is the cause? Why does the author begin her essay by identifying the effect first?

2. Lines 35-59: What is the link the author suggests by mentioning her mother’s death at the beginning of this passage?

3. Lines 60-67: How does the author describe this moment in her life, and how does he convey this in her language?

4. Lines 68-76: What is the purpose of the specific dates mentioned in this paragraph?

5. Lines 90-100: What is the tone of this paragraph and how does it affect your perception of the information presented?

a. the man as a ruler

when making an inference, the reader should be sure to support the inference with

evidence

a is an educated guess about what will happen.

c. prediction

when new information proves that a reader's prediction is wrong, the reader should

make a new prediction based on the new information.

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.