Monday, October 1, 2012

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

       September 27, 2012 marked my Aunt Karen's eighth anniversary in heaven. My aunt passed away of breast cancer when I was in high school. At the time, my youngest cousin was only thirteen years old and my other cousin was sixteen. I couldn't imagine losing my mother. My mother means the world to me and I don't know how I would get through life without her. I give my cousins a lot of credit for staying so strong and of course much credit is due to my uncle for being the glue that kept their family together. We all miss my aunt dearly, but unfortunately, our family is not the only family to lose a loved one to breast cancer.
       I thought it was appropriate to discuss my aunt's passing, since October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I think that it is great how much support breast cancer gets throughout the year, but especially in October. I love to turn on the football games and see the players wearing pink gloves and sweat bands. Many corporations put great effort into raising money and awareness for breast cancer. Some ways you can raise money and awareness for breast cancer is by walking in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk at Jones Beach, purchasing a "Hello Lady" t-shirt on the Z100 website, and purchasing items that will donate the proceeds to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.



Vocabulary Words:
1. Appropriate
2. Awareness
3. Corporations
4. Effort
5. Purchasing
6. Donate
7. Proceeds

Definitions:
1. Appropriate: something that is fitting or suitable
2. Awareness: to bring to someones attention
3. Corporation: a big business
4. Effort: to try really hard
5. Purchase: to buy something
6. Donate: to give something away without receiving anything in return
7. Proceeds: money earned from a sale

Vocabulary Cloze Exercise:
1. The short dress was not _________________ for the wedding.
2. The cancer survivors raised___________________ about the disease.
3. The successful salesman worked for a big ________________________.
4. The students put great _______________ into their homework.
5. I went to the store to _________________ a mirror.
6. I feel good when I __________________ clothes to the poor.
7. When you buy make up at Ulta, the ________________go toward breast cancer research.

Grammar Point: Contractions
In the passage above you will notice contractions. Contractions are a shorter way to write two words by eliminating some letters and adding an apostrophe. For example, the contraction don't is short for do not. Other contractions include is not --> isn't, would not --> wouldn't, cannot--> can't, does not --> doesn't. Typically, when writing a contraction, you take out the o in not and add an apostrophe. However, there are always exceptions such as can't. In the case of can't, the n and o are eliminated from the word not. Also, the contraction for will not is won't.

Grammar Activity
Directions: Write the contraction for each set of words

1. Cannot             _________________

2. Do not             _________________

3. Should not        _________________

4. Does not           _________________

5. Will not             _________________

1 comment:

  1. Beautifully written and very moving! I especially like the cloze exercise and the grammar point.

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