Which plot element best helps readers determine the theme of "Amigo Brothers”?
Which sentence is written in the first person?
Read the excerpt from The Miracle Worker by William Gibson.([ANNIE] is interrupted by a gasp: HELEN has stuck her finger and sits sucking at it, darkly. Then with vengeful resolve she seizes her doll and is about to dash its brains out on the floor when ANNIE, diving, catches it in one hand, which she at once shakes with hopping pain but otherwise ignores, patiently.)All right, let’s try temperance. (Taking the doll, she kneels, goes through the motion of knocking its head on the floor, spells into HELEN’S hand.)Bad, girl.(She lets HELEN feel the grieved expression on her face. HELEN imitates it. Next she makes HELEN caress the doll and kiss the hurt spot and hold it gently in her arms, then spells into her hand.)Good, girl.(She lets HELEN feel the smile on her face. HELEN sits with a scowl, which suddenly clears; she pats the doll, kisses it, wreathes her face in a large artificial smile, and bears the doll to the washstand, where she carefully sits it. ANNIE watches, pleased.)Very good girl -(Whereupon HELEN elevates the pitcher and dashes it on the floor instead. ANNIE leaps to her feet and stands inarticulate; HELEN calmly gropes back to the sewing card and needle.ANNIE manages to achieve self-control. She picks up a fragment or two of the pitcher, sees HELEN is puzzling over the card, and resolutely kneels to demonstrate it again. She spells into HELEN’S hand.Select the excerpt from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller that shows a different perspective of similar events.
Read the excerpt from "Amigo Brothers.”"In this corner, weighing 131 pounds, Felix Vargas. And in this corner, weighing 133 pounds, Antonio Cruz. The winner will represent the Boys Club in the tournament of champions, the Golden Gloves. There will be no draw. May the best man win.”What main conflict is best expressed in this passage?
Read the excerpt from Story of My Life by Helen Keller.One day, while I was playing with my new doll, Miss Sullivan put my big rag doll into my lap also, spelled "d-o-l-l" and tried to make me understand that "d-o-l-l" applied to both. Earlier in the day we had had a tussle over the words "m-u-g" and "w-a-t-e-r." Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it upon me that "m-u-g" is mug and that "w-a-t-e-r" is water, but I persisted in confounding the two. In despair she had dropped the subject for the time, only to renew it at the first opportunity. I became impatient at her repeated attempts and, seizing the new doll, I dashed it upon the floor. I was keenly delighted when I felt the fragments of the broken doll at my feet. Neither sorrow nor regret followed my passionate outburst. I had not loved the doll. In the still, dark world in which I lived there was no strong sentiment or tenderness. I felt my teacher sweep the fragments to one side of the hearth, and I had a sense of satisfaction that the cause of my discomfort was removed.
Read this scene from The Miracle Worker Act 2.([ANNIE] wipes the hand clean and leads HELEN to her bureau, where she looks for something to engage her. She finds a sewing card, with needle and thread, and going to her knees, shows HELEN’S hand how to connect one row of holes.)How do these stage directions add meaning to the play?
What will the readers experience in a biographical play about Helen Keller that they will not experience in Helen Keller’s memoir?
Which statement correctly describes a summary?
Which sentence from "Amigo Brothers” best shows how the conflict in the story is resolved?
Read the paragraph.Amber wants to use a quote from an article called "Reading and Writing in College.” The source is a website, www.collegewriting.edu. There is no known author or page number.
The first-person point of view allows readers to
During a formal group discussion, participants should be prepared to
Based on the point of view of the text, which excerpt would most likely appear in Helen Keller’s memoir, The Story of My Life, and not The Miracle Worker by William Gibson?
Read the excerpt from Between the Silver and the Ash.XAVIER(Alarmed) You told? You promised me you wouldn’t. Oh, man, this could be disastrous!KENNETHCalm down. I didn’t tell. I sneaked. I waited until Ms. Wilmore went to help somebody, then I sneaked the book off the shelf and copied the thing. Then I had to wait forever until she went to help somebody else in the newspaper section so I could sneak it back.XAVIERGreat. Thanks. I’m sorry I panicked. I can’t risk anybody else knowing about it.KENNETHYeah, I know. Anyway, why don’t you sit down by one of your precious trees and I’ll read this thing to you.XAVIERI can read it.KENNETHNot if I don’t give it to you. Just sit down, okay?
Read the excerpt from Between the Silver and the Ash.The sun is like a child to seekYet falls in pools of golden light.The twins raise leafy arms; there peek’Tween silver left and ashy right.
Read the excerpt from Between the Silver and the Ash.KENNETHWow. For a minute there, I thought you weren’t going to show up.XAVIERI’m here.KENNETHIt’s just weird how I can’t see you until you sort of, I don’t know, appear.XAVIERYou’re not supposed to see me.KENNETHI know, I know. You’re Tree Man, spirit of the forest. Able to disappear into the very trees themselves. More elusive than the shyest garden creatures. Master of the art of—
Read the excerpt from Between the Silver and the Ash.The scene is a clearing in a forest. There are two or three trees toward the back of the stage. It is the middle of the day, but the tree canopy shades much of the clearing. We hear the sound of birds and a brook, and then footsteps. Kenneth enters, a sheet of paper in his hand, and looks around.
Read the excerpt from “A Journey West.”It was all my fault. I'm the one who told Momma and Daddy that we should travel west. I saw the handbills, which said there was good land in Kansas. I heard a man say that if we could live on the land and improve it, we'd own it, which is not something a black family can do in Louisiana.The man said that the people going to Kansas were like the slaves leaving Egypt in the biblical Exodus. He said we should all raise some dust and make our own exodus, out of the injustice of the South and into the freedom of the West! Well, my mind filled up with so many dreams and beautiful visions that I just about ran home to tell my folks.
Read the excerpt from "On the Mountain.”That's when it happened. A three-hundred-year-old Douglas fir extended a root like a big, gnarled foot across the path and, not seeing the hazard, Jess fell right over it and landed hard on her knee. For a moment she just stayed there, blinking back the tears that threatened to fill her eyes.
Read the excerpt from “On the Mountain.”Jess had done enough climbing to know that most accidents happen when you're going downhill, so she was careful as she headed back. The first mile or so was easy, but during the second mile, she began to get a little nervous. As she went farther down, she began to be less frustrated with Will. He was her climbing companion, and he was supposed to stay with her, but the reverse was true, too. She had abandoned him there on the path. For all she knew, something could have happened to him. Feeling worried, Jess moved faster down the mountain.
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