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Based on the repetition in “Twelfth Song of Thunder,” the voice

Based on the events of Act I of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, which event is most likely to happen in the rest of the story?

Read this excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone.He lined up the two groups of symbols and made a comparison.At once it was apparent that three of the hieroglyphs found in the name Ptolemy—the first, third, and fourth—could also be found in their correct places in the name Cleopatra—the fifth, fourth, and second respectively.What is the best prediction that can be made about Champollion’s research techniques?

Read this excerpt from "The Past" by Ellen Glasgow.When I gave my name and explained that I was the new secretary, I was delivered into the charge of an elderly lady's maid, who looked as if she had been crying. Without speaking a word, though she nodded kindly enough, she led me down the hall, and then up a flight of stairs at the back of the house to a pleasant bedroom in the third story. There was a great deal of sunshine, and the walls, which were painted a soft yellow, made the room very cheerful. It would be a comfortable place to sit in when I was not working, I thought, while the sad-faced maid stood watching me remove my wraps and hat."If you are not tired, Mrs. Vanderbridge would like to dictate a few letters," she said presently, and they were the first words she had spoken."I am not a bit tired. Will you take me to her?" One of the reasons, I knew, which had decided Mrs. Vanderbridge to engage me was the remarkable similarity of our handwriting. We were both Southerners, and though she was now famous on two continents for her beauty, I couldn't forget that she had got her early education at the little academy for young ladies in Fredericksburg. This was a bond of sympathy in my thoughts at least, and, heaven knows, I needed to remember it while I followed the maid down the narrow stairs and along the wide hall to the front of the house.Who is the story’s first-person narrator?

During social studies, the students discuss the collapse of the Roman Empire. The teacher tells the students that everyone must respond to at least one comment that a speaker in their group makes.

Read this excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin.A few experts challenged Champollion's methods and clung to the notion that the hieroglyphs had a purely symbolic meaning. But Champollion's defenders, after further studies, proved his approach correct beyond any doubt.Which answer choice best states a cause-and-effect relationship from the excerpt?

Read this scene from The Miracle Worker Act 3.(ANNIE is now alone on the stage. She turns, gazing around at the stripped room, bidding it silently farewell, impassively, like a defeated general on the deserted battlefield. All that remains is a stand with a basin of water. . . .)How do these stage directions add meaning to the play?

Read this excerpt from “What I Hope to Leave Behind.”If we have known happy homes, we want to reproduce the same type of thing we have had; and even though we may always be critical of some things in our past, time nearly always puts a halo around even a few of the disagreeable things, and most women dream, as they rock their babies or busy themselves in household tasks, that their daughters will do the same things someday.

Brooke has been asked to present on the topic below.Persuade students to participate in the annual seventh-grade Fun Run.What would be the most effective claim for this presentation?

Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone.It earned him a reputation for being an expert on the hieroglyphs—a reputation that lasted, unfortunately, long after his death in 1680.Which phrase from this excerpt best shows the author’s viewpoint of Athanasius Kircher’s ideas?

Read this excerpt from Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown, another story related to the yellow fever outbreak.He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. The lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. His throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . . .There was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. My family consisted of my wife and a young child. Our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. We ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. Our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. They did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. They consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. Who is the story’s first-person narrator?

Read this excerpt from “President Ronald Reagan's Address to the Nation” following the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle.I've always had great faith in and respect for our space program, and what happened today does nothing to diminish it. We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute. We'll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue. I want to add that I wish I could talk to every man and woman who works for NASA or who worked on this mission and tell them: “Your dedication and professionalism have moved and impressed us for decades. And we know of your anguish. We share it.”

Based on "Albert Schweitzer: A Life of Service and Sacrifice,” which statement best describes Schweitzer as a young boy?

Read the passage from “Yellow Fever.”About 15 percent of people who fall sick feel better for a day, but then the disease progresses to a more dangerous form. The next stage can include high fever, internal bleeding, unconsciousness, and harm to the heart, liver, and kidneys. Liver damage is like a poison, and it causes people’s skin and eyes to take on a yellow color. Yellow fever gets its name from this symptom. In the end, 20 to 50 percent of people who develop the more severe type of yellow fever die.

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.