Text Stitch: Activity 1

Read the ‘text’ and put the three different texts back together: Why doesn’t it makesense?

Allow the fruit to steam in its own juice for a further 15 minutes.

So she hated it when that infuriating Keith Scott seemed to go out of his way to suggest that her heart wasn’t in the affair.

That’s why we created ‘Portfolio’, a brand new concept in saving.

Put them into a fireproof dish with the water, and a tablespoon of the sugar.

She knew that he loved her – in a calm settled way rather than any grand passion – and that he would make her a good, kind husband.

Ensuring that the lid is tightly sealed, put the dish into a preheated oven, Gas Mark 6.

So that way, you can have your cake and eat it too.

Pour over the top, and serve with double cream.

Melodie Neil and Jed Martin were old friends.

Mix juice with the brandy, mulled wine, and rest of the sugar.

We do, too.

Wash and core the apples, taking care to remove all the pips.

In short, when she became engaged to him she knew exactly what she was doing.

Spoon out the cooked apples and arrange them attractively in round on a serving plate.

Do you feel that you never get a fair slice of the capital cake?

Slice finely.

Portfolio is a high interest investment account that makes your money work for you, while still giving you instant access to your capital.

Reduce temperature to 3 after 10 minutes.

Text Analysis 2: Analyze the following text from as many different perspectives as you feel important:

Bullied teacher wins £230,000 damages Rebecca Smithers, education correspondent

The Guardian, Saturday 5 October 2002 01.37 BST

  1. A bullied teacher has been awarded a £230,000 payout for personal injury and loss of earnings after being forced out of his job by his head.
  2. A judge ruled that the sacking from Coedffranc junior school in Skewen, South Wales, was unlawful, and had already awarded Alan Powis, 53, £80,000 in interim payments pending a full settlement scheduled for yesterday.
  3. But Mr Powis was given the payment in an out-of-court settlement on Thursday to end a lengthy legal battle.
  4. He lost his job after the head, Sheena Ball, questioned his ability and accused him of incompetence. When he won support of parents, Ms Ball claimed he was undermining her authority and he was sacked for gross misconduct. Mr Powis, a father of two, suffered a nervous breakdown but found work as a £2.50-an-hour security guard and a door-to-door salesman to make ends meet.
  5. Judge Gary Hickinbottom, sitting at Swansea's civil courts of justice, said that the sacking in 1997 was unlawful and that it was Ms Ball's conduct that was to blame. The settlement against Neath and Port Talbot county borough council's education authority was settled by its insurers.
  6. Yesterday Mr Powis said he was pleased with the ruling. "I'm not the least bit interested in having a flash new car. What I did want when I began this claim was the return of my good name, the return of my dignity, and the return of my peace of mind. I'm starting to get that now.

Text Analysis 3: Analyze this editorial from as many perspectives as you can.

The New York Times

Virginia Rejects Your Hateful Politics, Mr. Trump By THE EDITORIAL BOARD NOV. 7, 2017

  1. Ralph Northam’s election as Virginia governor amid reportedly high turnout on Tuesday is a stinging and welcome rebuke to President Trump and white nationalism.
  2. Mr. Northam’s Republican rival, Ed Gillespie, an establishment operative, chose to dog-whistle himself breathless in pursuit of the state’s pro-Trump white voters, and the president attested to his make-America-great-again credentials. By late Tuesday, though, Mr. Trump was trying to sidle away from Mr. Gillespie, claiming that a candidate who sacrificed his own reputation to adopt the president’s style and positions in fact “did not embrace me or what I stand for.” Mr. Gillespie did, and he lost.
  3. Virginia and New Jersey, where Democrat Phil Murphy easily won the governor’s race, were the first statewide general elections since Donald Trump won the presidency a year ago, and Virginia, the only southern state Hillary Clinton won in 2016, was by far the more consequential of the two. Late Tuesday Democrats were also registering gains in the Virginia House of Delegates, suggesting strong disapproval of Mr. Trump at the grass roots.
  4. Having been nearly vanquished in the primary by Corey Stewart, an anti-immigrant conspiracy theorist who played on issues like preserving Confederate monuments, Mr. Gillespie, at the advice of Republican leaders, took up race-baiting. His ads, featuring menacing tattooed men, accused Mr. Northam of being “weak on MS-13,” the gang formed by Central American immigrants in Los Angeles that now threatens Virginia suburbs. They contained some of the darkest appeals in Tuesday’s off-year contests — and that’s saying something, given the Republican candidate ads that aired in places like Nassau County, N.Y., and New Jersey.
  5. Mr. Trump, who is traveling in Asia, waged one of his familiar Twitter smear campaigns against Mr. Northam on Tuesday, calling the pediatric neurologist and former Army doctor “weak on crime, weak on our GREAT VETS.”
  6. Democratic A-listers from President Barack Obama on down labored to put Mr. Northam over the bar. Mr. Northam was a lackluster campaigner in his own right. Despite mountains of post-2016 evidence that Democrats need to present voters with an inclusive and compelling economic message, he didn’t hone his own until late in the race.
  7. Then he lost support from the progressive wing of his party after he seemed to suggest he’d oppose sanctuary cities and, at the request of unions, omitted Justin Fairfax, his African-American running mate in the lieutenant governor’s race, from some campaign pamphlets.
  8. Mr. Gillespie’s choice to lay his principles on the altar of Trumpism made Mr. Northam’s win doubly important, as a triumph over the politics of racial division, and as a lesson for other Republicans tempted to adopt Mr. Trump’s vile tactics as their own..