What is the scene you will be analyzing? What is the context of that scene? What is happening to your chosen character in this scene? What language issue/s do you see present? Teang did not complain, but the bearing of children told on her. She was shapeless and thin now, even if she was young. There was interminable work to be done. Cooking. Laundering. The house. The children. She cried sometimes, wishing she had not married. She did not tell Dodong this, not wishing him to dislike her. Yet she wished she had not married. Not even Dodong, whom she loved. There has been another suitor, Lucio, older than Dodong by nine years, and that was why she had chosen Dodong. Young Dodong. Seventeen. Lucio had married another after her marriage to Dodong, but he was childless until now. She wondered if she had married Lucio, would she have borne him children. Maybe not, either. That was a better lot. But she loved Dodong...

How are they communicating? What are the communication channels your character is using? Teang did not complain, but the bearing of children told on her. She was shapeless and thin now, even if she was young. There was interminable work to be done. Cooking. Laundering. The house. The children. She cried sometimes, wishing she had not married. She did not tell Dodong this, not wishing him to dislike her. Yet she wished she had not married. Not even Dodong, whom she loved. There has been another suitor, Lucio, older than Dodong by nine years, and that was why she had chosen Dodong. Young Dodong. Seventeen. Lucio had married another after her marriage to Dodong, but he was childless until now. She wondered if Page 7 of 8 she had married Lucio, would she have borne him children. Maybe not, either. That was a better lot. But she loved Dodong

What are the specific codes/language the character is using the communicate their main message? Teang did not complain, but the bearing of children told on her. She was shapeless and thin now, even if she was young. There was interminable work to be done. Cooking. Laundering. The house. The children. She cried sometimes, wishing she had not married. She did not tell Dodong this, not wishing him to dislike her. Yet she wished she had not married. Not even Dodong, whom she loved. There has been another suitor, Lucio, older than Dodong by nine years, and that was why she had chosen Dodong. Young Dodong. Seventeen. Lucio had married another after her marriage to Dodong, but he was childless until now. She wondered if she had married Lucio, would she have borne him children. Maybe not, either. That was a better lot. But she loved Dodong...

Footnote to youth by Jose Garcia Villa [Sender] Who is your chosen character? Teang [Context] What is the scene you will be analyzing? What is the context of that scene? What is happening to your chosen character in this scene? What language issue/s do you see present?

Yun was learning English as an adult. She found that she had trouble with some of the sounds in English because those sounds were not part of her native Chinese. The difficulty she was having involved

In 1937, Chinese American screen actor Anna MayWong, who had portrayed numerous villains andsecondary characters but never a heroine, finally gota starring role in Paramount Pictures’ Daughter ofShanghai, a film that _______ “expanded the rangeof possibilities for Asian images on screen.”Which choice completes the text so that it conformsto the conventions of Standard English?A) critic, Stina Chyn, claimsB) critic, Stina Chyn, claims,C) critic Stina Chyn claimsD) critic Stina Chyn, claims,