<p>experimental, i think</p>
<p>^ i remember that but i think it was experimental but i dont really remember</p>
<p>albbymur, I think there was a question along the lines of
The author of passage 2 would most likely regard ___ lines as ____________,
In all honesty, I kind of skimmed over those passages and buzzed through the questions without too much thought, so I don’t really remember.</p>
<p>tasreep, that’s definitely experimental.</p>
<p>I think -3 for 800 wouldn’t be out of the question.</p>
<p>Where in this passage is the question to the answer “shaping” brought up and what were the answer choices?</p>
<p>Ella Josephine Bakers activist career spanned from 1930 to 1980, touched thousands of lives, and contributed to over three dozen organizations. She was an internationalist, but her cultural and political home was the African American community. Ella Baker spent her entire adult life trying to change the system. Somewhere along the way she recognized that her goal was not a single end but rather an ongoing means, that is, a process. Radical change for Ella Baker was about a persistent and protracted process of discourse, debate, consensus, reflection, and struggle. As she put it in 1969:</p>
<p>We are going to have to learn to think in radical terms. I use the term radical in its original meaning getting down to and understanding the root cause. It means facing a system that does not lend itself to your needs and devising means by which you change that system. </p>
<p>If larger and large numbers of communities were engaged in such a process, she reasoned, day in and day out, year after year, the revolution would be well under way. Ella Baker understood that laws, structures, and institutions had to change in order to correct injustice and oppression, but part of the process had to involve oppressed people, ordinary people, infusing new meanings into the concept of democracy and finding their own individual and collective power to determine their lives and shape the direction of history. These were the radical terms that Ella Baker thought in and the radical ideas she fought for with her mind and her body. Just as the end for her was not a scripted utopia but another phase of struggle, the means of getting there was not scripted either. Bakers theory of social change and political organization was inscribed in her practice. Her ideas were written in her work: a coherent body of lived text spanning nearly sixty years.
Biography is a profoundly personal genre of historical scholarship, and the humbling but empowering process of finding our own meanings in another persons life poses unique challenges. As biographers, we ask questions about lives that the subjects themselves may never have asked outright and certainly did not consciously answer. Answers are always elusive. We search for them by carefully reading and interpreting the fragmented messages left behind. Feminist biographers and scholar-activists like myself face particular challenges. It is imperative that we be ever cautious of the danger inherent to our work: imposing our contemporary dilemmas and expectations on a generation of women who spoke a different language, moved at a different rhythm, and juggled a different set of issues and concerns. The task of tailoring a life to fit a neat and cohesive narrative is a daunting one: an awkward and sometimes uncomfortable process of wading barefoot into the still and often murky waters of someone elses life, interrogating her choices, speculating about her motives, mapping her movements, and weighing every word. No single descriptor ever seems adequate to capture the richly nuanced complexity of a life fully lived. Every term is inherently inadequate, each one loaded with someone elses meanings, someone elses baggage. How can a biographer frame a unique life, rendering it full-bodied, textured, even contradictory, yet still accessible for those who wan to step inside and look around?
My journey into Ella Jo Bakers work has been a personal, political, and intellectual journey, often joyous and at times painful. It has taken me in and out of some twenty cities and numerous libraries, archives, county courthouses, kitchen tables, front porches, and a few dusty attics. This long journey has been marked by periods of difficult separation followed by hopeful reunions. In the process I have revisited the faces, experiences, and southern roots of my own mother, father, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins: Mississippi sharecroppers, domestic and factory workers, honest, generous, hard-working, resilient black people. Most importantly, in the process I have developed an intense and unique relationship with my subject. I have chatted, argued, commiserated, and rejoiced with Ella Baker in an ongoing conversation between sisters, one living and one dead. In this book, I have tried to tell Ella Bakers story partly as she would have told it and partly the way I a historian and an activist of a different time and place 0 felt it would have been told.
There are those who insist that biographical writing is composed and tainted by an authors identification and closeness with her subject. This does not have to be the case. I do not apologize for my admiration for Ella Baker. She earned it. I admire her for the courageous and remarkable life she led and for the contributions she made without any promise of immediate reward. I admire her for the ways in which she redefined the meaning of radical and engaged in intellectual work, of cross-class and interracial organizing, and of a democratic and humanistic way of being in the world, all the while trying to mold the world around her into something better.</p>
<p>^ damn. </p>
<p>assuming a -2 800 curve, what would -3 and -4 be then? 750-780?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf[/url]”>http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf</a></p>
<p>Even 1 of the 3 “Easiest CR” has -3 for 800. The october curves there are actually notoriously generous…</p>
<p>Fleece was eccentric for sure, because he did random things such as not talk for a week then talk a lot, ask dumb thinks like if the narrator wanted to watch him act like a puppet, etc. thats very quirky and eccentric</p>
<p>@cortana-
I feel the need to point out that a -3 is actually a -4 due to the -1/4 penalty. If you missed three, your raw score is 63, not 64.</p>
<p>GrandMasterLarry-
What did you think of treatment vs. handling?</p>
<p>What about Intellectualism and another word for the sentence completition about some woman being a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher…
Also, what is the question and what are the answer choices for the answer “shaping” on the Ella Baker passage?
And what were the other answer choices for the sentence completion whose answer was “digress” or “digression”?</p>
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<p>No. When people say “-n” it means how many points off the raw score. if you have 2 wrong and 1 omit, that is -3 because it’s 3 off the maximum possible raw score.</p>
<p>GrandMasterLarry- Thankyou! I knew it looked familiar, i just wasn’t sure If i had picked something else.
Also, does anyone know what the SHAPING question is in the Ella Baker passage??</p>
<p>GrandmasterLarry, did you take the SAT last saturday or do you have the test available to you right now along with answers/curves? or do you just remember the answer choices?</p>
<p>But -3 (as in 3 wrong) is still going to be a raw score of 63. I’m assuming you answered all the questions.</p>
<p>“assuming” as in I’ve read most of the posts you’ve put on this thread, and you seem to have answered most all the difficult ones. I don’t think you would’ve left an easier one blank.
Still some inference, but I think my claim is pretty valid.</p>
<p>Yeah i don’t remember the shaping question at all so i’m afraid i may have skipped it or something… i don’t see “treatment” anywhere in the passage either… oh well.
does anyone remember the two part vocab question on the nuclear power plant reading section where it described a woman who was a mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher and she promoted “intellectualism?”</p>
<p>Master Larry: so the definite answer is “vehement”? Perhaps CC can settle this debate for once and for all.</p>
<p>@ casey- I know it was about this lady called Hypatia and her going against the mystics of her time! But no, I can’t remember any of the answer choices :(</p>
<p>I put handling as well! yayy!</p>