Which plot element is repeated in "The Land of Laughter”?
Which detail from The Golem best foreshadows that the Golem may not correctly follow Pearl’s orders?
Read the excerpt from "Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."My friends, as we enter a new decade, it should be clear to all of us that there is an unfinished agenda, that we have miles to go before we reach the promised land.Which persuasive element does Chavez most use in this passage?
Why does the author of Exploring the Titanic give background information about his youth and education?
Which sentence uses the connotative meaning of the word snake?
Read these excerpts from Fever 1793 and The Summer of the Pestilence.Fiction: Fever 1793A violent thunderstorm on Sunday cleared the air for a few hours, but when the sun came out Monday, it baked the streets until the rainwater rose in ghostly plumes of steam. I felt like a noodle over-boiled in the stewpot. And the bells continued to toll.Nonfiction: The Summer of the Pestilence During dry, warm days, the fever has seemed to spread but slowly; but when these chill northeasterly storms have come, it has taken whole sections of the city in a night.In what way do the excerpts reveal setting?
Read this excerpt from The Golem.There is wild disorder as neighbors, children, birds, cart-peddlers, other livestock, all run into each other in the frenzy caused by the chickens.Suddenly, the people hear a loud roar, louder even than the noise they've been making. Everyone stops – even the chickens – and looks up the street to see the source of the sound.A deep flood races around a corner and down the street toward them, several feet high and carrying away everything in its path. People, carts, animals, birds, all go flying down the street, carried by the racing current.
Read the passage from “Yellow Fever.”It took a long time for people to realize where this disease came from. For hundreds of years, they thought it was due to dirty air, especially near swamps. In fact, it is caused by the bite of an infected mosquito. Not all mosquitoes carry this disease, and some mosquitoes actually get it from biting an infected person.
Read the passage from “Yellow Fever.”In 1900, the United States Army Yellow Fever Board came to Cuba to talk with Finlay. This group, headed by Dr. Walter Reed, conducted a series of experiments to test Finlay’s beliefs. Reed’s team created special conditions and divided their test subjects into several groups of people. One group was exposed to mosquitoes that were infected with yellow fever. The other groups were exposed to either unclean air or dirty linen that had been in contact with yellow fever. The result: only people who had been bitten by infected mosquitoes caught the disease. Reed and his team of researchers now had their proof. Without this and other experiments, we would never have had a yellow fever vaccine.
Read the excerpt from act 1 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. GOODMANShe's crazy. Look I can explain that. Please . . . I can really explain that . . . she's making it up anyway.(then he shouts)I tell you she's making it up!Which element of drama is highlighted in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from “The Snow-Queen.”Kay and Gerda were looking at one of their picture-books—the clock in the great church-tower had just struck five, when Kay exclaimed, “Oh! something has stung my heart, and I've got something in my eye!”The little girl threw her arms round his neck; he winked hard with both his eyes; no, she could see nothing in them.“I think it is gone now,” said he; but it had not gone. It was one of the tiny splinters of the glass of the magic mirror which we have heard about, that turned everything great and good reflected in it small and ugly. And poor Kay had also a splinter in his heart, and it began to change into a lump of ice. It did not hurt him at all, but the splinter was there all the same.
Read the excerpt from “The Treasure of Lemon Brown.”“When you get as old as me all you say when something hurts is, ‘Howdy, Mr. Pain, sees you back again.’ Then when Mr. Pain see he can’t worry you none, he go on mess with somebody else.”Greg smiled.Which types of indirect characterization are used?
Read this excerpt about activist Dolores Huerta.Throughout the twentieth century, strikes and efforts to unionize migrant workers had failed to achieve real change. But the civic activism that swept through America after World War II stirred the Mexican-American community, including Huerta’s family.In 1955, along with her mother and an aunt, Huerta became involved in grassroots organizing as a member of the Community Service Organization (CSO). She honed her organizing skills and became a lobbyist in Sacramento, helping set up voter registration drives and fighting for the legal rights of migrant workers.
Jade is making a public service announcement to encourage sun safety during summer break. What would best help convey this message using a serious tone?
Read this excerpt about activist Dolores Huerta.Her tenacity earned her a mixed reputation. As a woman, she faced gender discrimination, even among the farm workers she tried to help. She has also been honored many times in her lifetime and remains active long past retirement. But as Huerta said, you do not expect rewards for helping the oppressed: "You do it because they need help.”
Which statement best describes a theme of The Golem, based on this scene? RABBI LOWI'll show you. Golem: Come here.The golem moves toward them. Pearl screams again.RABBI LOWI had that same reaction, to tell you the truth. But there's nothing to fear. Golem: stop.The golem stops.RABBI LOWSee? I can make him sit, too. Golem: sit.The golem turns to one of the chairs and sits.
Which sentence from “Yellow Fever” can be defined as an effect?
Which excerpt from "Why Alligator Hates Dog” creates the most suspense?
Read the excerpt from "Why Alligator Hates Dog.”Despite Alligator’s suspicions, he was sorely tempted by that bowl of scraps, which certainly sounded very tasty. But he was still doubtful. "I don’t know . . . What about your master? Won’t he try to get me if he sees me having dinner with you?”"Don’t you worry about him! I’ll take care of him; he always does everything I tell him to do. So, I guess I’ll be seeing you up at the cabin for dinner soon?”
Read the excerpt from "Why Alligator Hates Dog.”Dog loved a good chase, so he couldn’t resist leaping off the porch in hot pursuit. What he didn’t know was that this rabbit was crafty: he led Dog right, then left, then straight to a deep hole. The rabbit jumped over the hole, knowing full well that Dog wouldn’t see the hole and would tumble right into it. That hole just happened to be an alligator den, and guess who had made it his home?
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