Lab Activity 28: The Listing Pattern

Chapter 6: Transitions and Thought Patterns
Lab Activity 28: The Listing Pattern

Objective
To use transitions and the listing pattern to see the relationship of details to the main idea.

Step 2: Using the college history textbook selection in the Lab Manual, answer the following questions.


		7. "In addition, he served 14 years (1751–1764) in the Pennsylvania assembly." The transition used in this sentence is

		8. The "unbeatable combination" for a perfect temperament mentioned in the selection lists how many attributes?

		9. "In his spare time he taught himself Latin, French, Spanish, and Italian." How many languages did Franklin learn in his spare time?

		10. "Franklin wrote so much about the virtues of hard work and thrift that some historians have described him as stuffy and straitlaced. Nothing could be further from the truth. He recognized the social value of conventional behavior, but he was no slave to convention. He wrote satirical essays on such subjects as the advantage of having affairs with older women and plain-looking women (who were, he claimed, more likely to appreciate the attention). And he had the perfect temperament, being open-minded and imaginative as well as shrewd and judicious—an unbeatable combination." The implied main idea of the paragraph is