Activity 3
Directions:
Identify each of the following excerpts as either a narrative, explanatory,
expository or persuasive paragraph.
_____________1. The sun is only one among 200 billion stars that are bound together by
gravity into a large cluster of stars called the galaxy. The stars of the galaxy revolve about
its center as the planets revolve about the sun. The sun itself participates in this rotating
motion, completing one circuit around the galaxy in 250 million years.
—from “The Size of
Things” in Red Giants and White Dwarfs by Robert Jastrow
_____________2. Members of the fire department were starting to arrive at the front door, but
Albert ignored them. He was white now, like death, and he made a low terrible sound. He
did not exactly pull his lips back from his teeth and growl, but the result was similar. It was
like the sound a dog makes before he leaps for the throat. And what he said was “You just
leave me be, woman!”
—from “Be-ers and Doers” by Budge Wilson
____________3. As public schools reopen for the new year, strategies to curb school violence
will once again be hotly debated. Installing metal detectors and hiring security guards will
help, but the experience of my two sisters makes a compelling case for greater use of dress
codes as a way to protect students and promote learning.
—from “Appearances Are
Destructive” by Mark Mathabane
___________4. Across the street lived old Dikran, who was almost blind. He was past eighty
and his wife was only a few years younger. They had a little house that was as neat inside
as it was ordinary outside—except for old Dikran’s garden, which was the best thing of its
kind in the world. Plants, bushes, trees—all strong, in sweet black moist earth whose
guardian was old Dikran. All things from the sky loved this spot in our poor neighborhood,
and old Dikran loved them.
—from “The Hummingbird That Lived through Winter ” by
William Saroyan
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