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Read this excerpt and look at the photo from "Max in the Year 2300."Slumping on his low couch, Max felt restless. "What shall I do today?" he thought, bored. "I suppose I could call Zara and invite her to the Walter Museum. There's an exhibit of statues and photographs, one was striking in particular.” He thought of it and visualized the image. The face seemed so familiar, like one you had seen many times before in your life, such as an image when passing in a mirror. This is what he saw.
Look at the poster for the play The Golem.
Which detail from "Max in the Year 2300” most clearly foreshadows what Max is?
Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.As they suddenly start toward the house. In this brief fraction of a moment they take the first step toward performing a metamorphosis that changes people from a group into a mob. They begin to head purposefully across the street toward the house at the end. Steve stands in front of them. For a moment their fear almost turns their walk into a wild stampede but Steve's voice, loud, incisive and commanding, makes them stop.STEVEWait a minute . . . wait a minute! Let's not be a mob!The people stop as a group, seem to pause for a moment and then much more quietly and slowly start to walk across the street.
Which excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street best foreshadows the idea that the residents of Maple Street are becoming a dangerous mob?
Read the excerpt from “How I Learned English.”It was in an empty lotRinged by elms and fir and honeysuckle.Bill Corson was pitching in his buckskin jacket,Chuck Keller, fat even as a boy, was on first,His t-shirt riding up over his gut,Ron O’Neill, Jim, Dennis, were talking it upIn the field, a blue sky above themTipped with cirrus.How is this excerpt important to the poem as a whole?
Based on events in “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” how will Greg and his father's relationship most likely change?
Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.SALLYThere's . . . there's a light on in the Goodman house.The people now turn as if by direction toward the last house on the street.CUT TO:37. PAN SHOT – ACROSS THE STREET DOWN THE ROW OF HOUSES 37.Each is the same in general style, the front porch, the gliders, the rest of it. Then suddenly the CAMERA STOPS on the last house in the line. There's a spot light set up on the porch and even in the daylight we can see it shining.CUT TO:38. CLOSE SHOT – THE SPOT LIGHT 38.CUT TO:39. REVERSE ANGLE – LOOKING TOWARD FACES OF THE PEOPLE 39.As they stare at it.MAN ONEThat's Les Goodman's house. He's got lights!40. PAN SHOT ACROSS FACES OF THE PEOPLE 40.As they stare, somehow caught up by this revelation and desperately frightened by it.
Read the dialogue between two characters from a story titled "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" by Walter Dean Myers."There’s another room over there; I’m going to take a look. You got that flashlight?”"Yeah, here, take the pipe too.”How does the dialogue move the story forward?
Read the excerpt from "The Treasure of Lemon Brown.”Lemon Brown didn’t move. Greg felt himself near panic. The steps came closer, and still Lemon Brown didn’t move. He was an eerie sight, a bundle of rags standing at the top of the stairs, his shadow on the wall looming over him. Maybe, the thought came to Greg, the scene could be even eerier.Greg wet his lips, put his hands to his mouth and tried to make a sound. Nothing came out. He swallowed hard, wet his lips once more and howled as evenly as he could."What’s that?”As Greg howled, the light moved away from Lemon Brown, but not before Greg saw him hurl his body down the stairs at the men who had come to take his treasure. There was a crashing noise, and then footsteps. A rush of warm air came in as the downstairs door opened, then there was only an ominous silence.Which statement most accurately describes Lemon Brown’s and Greg's actions in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde.One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years. After the seven years were over he had said all that he had to say, for his conversation was limited, and he determined to return to his own castle. When he arrived he saw the children playing in the garden."What are you doing here?” he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children ran away."My own garden is my own garden,” said the Giant; "anyone can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself.” So he built a high wall all round it, and put up a notice-board.TRESPASSERSWILL BEPROSECUTEDIn this excerpt, dialogue is used to
Read the excerpt from Act 2 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. 75. SERIES OF CLOSE SHOTS – PEOPLE 75. MAN ONE (shouting) It isn't the kid . . . it's Bob Weaver's house. WOMAN ONE It isn't Bob Weaver's house, it's Don Martin's place. CHARLIE I tell you it's the kid. DON It's Charlie. He's the one.
Read the excerpt from "How I Learned English.”Someone said "shin” again,There was a wild stamping of hands on the ground,A kicking of feet, and the fitOf laughter overtook me too,And that was important, as importantAs Joe Barone asking me how I wasThrough his tears, picking me upAnd dusting me off with hands like swatters,And though my head felt heavy,I played on till duskThis excerpt shows that the speaker no longer feels like an outsider because
Read this excerpt from The Golem.PEARLYou made this mess. The least you could do is get the water to clean it up.The golem takes a step toward her. Pearl stifles a little shriek; she is more surprised than scared.PEARLWhat's this about? What do you want?The golem stretches out his arm toward the bucket.PEARLReally? You'll get the water from the stream? . . . All right, then. But please be quick about it.The golem takes her bucket, plus another, and moves stiffly but quickly to the door and leaves. Pearl smiles.PEARLIt may not be such a bad thing to have a golem around the house after all.
Which line from "Max in the Year 2300" helps to distinguish it as a work of science fiction from a work of fantasy fiction?
Which line gives the best indication that Zara is a cat in "Max in the Year 2300”?
Read this excerpt from "Street Cleaning Day.”Then Circle rolled to the back bumper,and called to Line atop Triangle –"Line, lean downuntil one of your endsis under the car!”And Line leaned downangling one of his ends under the carand the other up toward Square.Circle scooted under the back Bumper,and called to Square. "Now when I say go,I want you to jump on Line.”
Read this excerpt from "Street Cleaning Day.”And now there was plentyof space for Square to park.Everyone stood amazedat what they’d unleashedin themselves."Thanks for making a spacefor me,” said Square."That’s what neighbors do,”said Circle.
Read the excerpt from “Street Cleaning Day.”An open space on the streetsnapped him out of his thoughtsand back to the wheel.He sped up a littleand moved close to the curb,pulling ahead of the space.Just as he shifted his carin reverse, a flashswooped in from behindand took from Squarewhat the morning had offered.
Read this excerpt from "Street Cleaning Day.”An open space on the streetsnapped him out of his thoughtsand back to the wheel.He sped up a littleand moved close to the curb,pulling ahead of the space.Just as he shifted his carin reverse, a flashswooped in from behindand took from Squarewhat the morning had offered.Out hopped Trianglefrom his truck, whistling, his pointgleaming in the sun. Square fumedand each of his cornersturned pepper red.
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