Creating a Text Trailer — Unit test Answers

Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.CHILDREN [DELIGHTED]: There’s another present! Beatrice! We have a present for Helen, too! Give it to her, Beatrice. Here, Annie!(This present is an elegant doll, with movable eyelids and a momma sound.)It’s for Helen. And we took up a collection to buy it. And Laura dressed it.ANNIE: It’s beautiful!CHILDREN: So don’t forget, you be sure to give it to Helen from us, Annie!Which word best describes the children in this excerpt?

What is the best way for Linda to effectively participate in a discussion in which the conversation suddenly takes a new direction?

Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANNIE: The only time I have trouble is when I’m right.(But she is amused at herself, as is ANAGNOS.)Is it my fault it’s so often? I won’t give them trouble, Mr. Anagnos, I’ll be so ladylike they won’t notice I’ve come.ANAGNOS: Annie, be – humble. It is not as if you have so many offers to pick and choose. You will need their affection, working with this child.Which word best describes Annie in this excerpt?

Read this scene from The Miracle Worker Act 2.HELEN in her customary unkempt state is tucking her doll in the bottom drawer as a cradle, the contents of which she has dumped out, creating as usual a fine disorder.How do these stage directions add meaning to the play?

Read this scene from The Miracle Worker Act 3.(Now HELEN begins groping, sensing something, trembling herself; and KATE, falling one step in onto her knees, clasps her, kissing her. HELEN clutches her, tight as she can. KATE is inarticulate, choked, repeating HELEN’S name again and again. She wheels with her in her arms, to stumble away out the doorway. . . .)How do these stage directions add meaning to the play?

The idea in the "The Turtle” that all living things are tied together in a meaningful way is part of the poem’s

Read the excerpt from Story of My Life by Helen Keller.My aunt made me a big doll out of towels. It was the most comical shapeless thing, this improvised doll, with no nose, mouth, ears or eyes—nothing that even the imagination of a child could convert into a face. Curiously enough, the absence of eyes struck me more than all the other defects put together. I pointed this out to everybody with provoking persistency, but no one seemed equal to the task of providing the doll with eyes. A bright idea, however, shot into my mind, and the problem was solved. I tumbled off the seat and searched under it until I found my aunt's cape, which was trimmed with large beads. I pulled two beads off and indicated to her that I wanted her to sew them on my doll. She raised my hand to her eyes in a questioning way, and I nodded energetically. The beads were sewed in the right place and I could not contain myself for joy; but immediately I lost all interest in the doll.

Read the excerpt from “Amigo Brothers.”Bong! Bong! Bong! The bell sounded over and over again. Felix and Antonio were past hearing. Their blows continued to pound on each other like hailstones.Finally the referee and the two trainers pried Felix and Antonio apart. Cold water was poured over them to bring them back to their senses.They looked around and then rushed toward each other. A cry of alarm surged through Tompkins Square Park. Was this a fight to the death instead of a boxing match?Which tone would be most appropriate for a text trailer that includes this scene?

Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker Act 2.ANNIE: No, it’s how I watch you talk to Mildred.KATE: Mildred.ANNIE: Any baby. Gibberish, grown-up gibberish, baby-talk gibberish, do they understand one word of it to start? Somehow they begin to. If they hear it, I’m letting Helen hear it. KATE: Other children are not—impaired.ANNIE: Ho, there’s nothing impaired in that head. It works like a mousetrap!Based on the dialogue, which statement best describes Annie?

Which excerpt from "Amigo Brothers” helps the reader determine the story’s theme?

Read the excerpt from "The Turtle.”she knowsshe is a part of the pond she lives in,the tall trees are her children,the birds that swim above herare tied to her by an unbreakable string.Which deeper meaning do these lines express?

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.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 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.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.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.”That's when it happened. A three-hundred-year-old Douglas fir extended a root like a big, gnarled foot over 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.”Half an hour later, she knew she was going to have to be more resourceful. With the sun moving across the sky toward sunset, she opened her daypack to see what she had to work with. A cell phone, of course, but there was no reception in the area. Flashlight, protein bar, whistle, extra sweater, bandages, aspirin, burn cream, space blanket, peanuts, water bottle, matches, pocket knife. She ate some peanuts and took a couple of aspirin with a swig of water from her canteen, hoping they would relieve the pain in her knee.