Weaving It Together

48 Unit 6
making efforts to learn it in order to
keep their children safe.
Writing Skills
Exercise B 1, p. 155
line 24: Because
line 27: Because
line 51: As
Exercise B 2, p. 155
1. As businesses need to keep information
private, they use a secret language or code.
Businesses use a secret language or code
as they need to keep information private.
2. As the Navajo language was complex
and unwritten, few outsiders were able to
understand it. Few outsiders were able to
understand the Navajo language as it was
complex and unwritten. 3. As pig Latin is
easy to form, children use it to keep secrets.
Children use pig Latin to keep secrets as it
is easy to form.
Writing Model: Cause-and-
Effect Essay, p. 156
Thesis statement: last sentence in
paragraph 1
Paragraph 2 topic sentence: fi rst sentence in
paragraph
Paragraph 3 topic sentence: fi st sentence in
paragraph
Paragraph 4 topic sentence: fi rst sentence
in paragraph
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