At the end of the activity, the learners should be able to determine which of the author’s words can be quoted and which ones should be paraphrased to support the main idea. Read the following passages. Then, write your own paragraphs showing your understanding of the passages using both paraphrasing and quoting. Your paragraphs should be written in no less than 250 words. Passage 1 Excerpt from “Divining the Witch of York: Propaganda and Prophecy” by Ed Simon, published on October 24, 2018 In 1488 during the reign of Henry VII, one year after the Dominican Heinrich Kramer wrote his notorious witch-finding manual Malleus Maleficarum, an adolescent girl named Agatha Soothtell gave birth in a cave among the dales and moors of Yorkshire to her daughter Ursula, supposedly conceived by the Devil himself. Ironically it was there in “God’s Own Country” that young Agatha would raise her demonic charge, both of them forced to live in the cave where Ursula was born. The site that would be visited by pilgrims for centuries afterwards, making it arguably England’s first tourist attraction, was known as much for the strange calcifying waters of its subterranean whirlpool as for its medieval Satanic nativity. Most sources claimed that Ursula died during the rule of Elizabeth I in 1561, but with eight decades separating her supposed death and the first appearance of her name in print, it’s fair to assume a degree of invention in her biography. Despite her legendary ugliness (Ursula’s seventeenth-century biographer described her as “a thing so strange in an infant, that no age can parallel”1), at the age of twenty-four she married a carpenter named Toby Shipton, and it is to posterity that she would come to be known as “Mother Shipton”. A less appropriate surname, because as “Smith” and “Taylor” indicate profession, so too did “Soothtell”. Mother Shipton would become the most famed of soothe tellers in English history, renowned for her prophecies and used as a symbolic familiar in the art of divination for generations, the very constructed personage of the seer, a work of poetry unto herself. As scholar Darren Oldridge writes, “Unlike other ‘ancient prophets’ who were known by their words alone, Shipton emerged as a personality in her own right”. It is likely at least some of Mother Shipton’s predictions were invented long after she lived, her prophetic couplets revised and edited to conform to later events, whether Cardinal Wolsey’s death, the Great Fire of London, or the Crimean War. Details of her biography, her writing, and her very countenance are uncertain. The prophetess herself may have been a later invention. Yet Mother Shipton, England’s Nostradamus, the sixteenth-century Sibyl, the Yorkshire prophetess, the Knaresborough witch whose crooked face has stared out from prints hanging on occultist’s walls and in the names of country pubs since the initial printing of her predictions in 1641, should serve as a potent point of reflection for what exactly we talk about when we talk about prophecies.

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At the end of the activity, the learners should be able to determine which of the author’s words can be quoted and which ones should be paraphrased to support the main idea. Read the following passages. Then, write your own paragraphs showing your understanding of the passages using both paraphrasing and quoting. Your paragraphs should be written in no less than 250 words.   Passage 1 Excerpt from “Divining the Witch of York: Propaganda and Prophecy” by Ed Simon, published on October 24, 2018 In 1488 during the reign of Henry VII, one year after the Dominican Heinrich Kramer wrote his notorious witch-finding manual Malleus Maleficarum, an adolescent girl named Agatha Soothtell gave birth in a cave among the dales and moors of Yorkshire to her daughter Ursula, supposedly conceived by the Devil himself. Ironically it was there in “God’s Own Country” that young Agatha would raise her demonic charge, both of them forced to live in the cave where Ursula was born. The site that would be visited by pilgrims for centuries afterwards, making it arguably England’s first tourist attraction, was known as much for the strange calcifying waters of its subterranean whirlpool as for its medieval Satanic nativity. Most sources claimed that Ursula died during the rule of Elizabeth I in 1561, but with eight decades separating her supposed death and the first appearance of her name in print, it’s fair to assume a degree of invention in her biography. Despite her legendary ugliness (Ursula’s seventeenth-century biographer described her as “a thing so strange in an infant, that no age can parallel”1), at the age of twenty-four she married a carpenter named Toby Shipton, and it is to posterity that she would come to be known as “Mother Shipton”. A less appropriate surname, because as “Smith” and “Taylor” indicate profession, so too did “Soothtell”. Mother Shipton would become the most famed of soothe tellers in English  history, renowned for her prophecies and used as a symbolic familiar in the art of  divination for generations, the very constructed personage of the seer, a work of poetry  unto herself. As scholar Darren Oldridge writes, “Unlike other ‘ancient prophets’ who were  known by their words alone, Shipton emerged as a personality in her own right”.  It is likely at least some of Mother Shipton’s predictions were invented long after she lived,  her prophetic couplets revised and edited to conform to later events, whether Cardinal  Wolsey’s death, the Great Fire of London, or the Crimean War. Details of her biography, her  writing, and her very countenance are uncertain. The prophetess herself may have been a  later invention. Yet Mother Shipton, England’s Nostradamus, the sixteenth-century Sibyl,  the Yorkshire prophetess, the Knaresborough witch whose crooked face has stared out  from prints hanging on occultist’s walls and in the names of country pubs since the initial  printing of her predictions in 1641, should serve as a potent point of reflection for what  exactly we talk about when we talk about prophecies.​

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Answer:   hope it helps   Explanation:   According to Ed Simon’s “Divining the Witch of York: Propaganda and Prophecy”, Ursula, an illegitimate daughter of Agatha Soothtell, was born in a cave in Yorkshire and was said to be conceived by the Devil. Her cave dwelling became a popular pilgrimage site and tourist attraction during medieval times. Despite her legendary ugliness, she married a carpenter named Toby Shipton at the age of twenty-four, and from then on, she became known as “Mother Shipton” instead of “Soothtell”. She was considered the most famous soothe teller in English history, and her prophecies were widely known and used as a symbolic familiar in the art of divination. However, it is uncertain whether all of her predictions were authentic or whether her prophetic couplets were later revised and edited to conform to later events.    To paraphrase the passage, it is said that Ursula, the daughter of Agatha Soothtell, was born in a cave in Yorkshire, and it was believed that she was fathered by the Devil. Despite her unattractive appearance, she later married a carpenter named Toby Shipton and was then called “Mother Shipton”. She became the most famous soothe teller in English history and was renowned for her prophecies, which were used as a symbolic familiar in the art of divination.

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