SHORT STORIES
In A&P, three girls get in trouble at a grocery store for doing what?
Entering the store wearing just their bathing suits.
The first sentence of a body paragraph should do what?
Present the topic (topic sentence)
Where should punctuation go when you are writing dialogue?
Punctuation always goes within the quotation marks.
ie. "How are you doing?"
"I watched all the way to the top of the mountain. In the evening light, rising above the village, the dust was like a pink bomb blast: a great, unfolding flower. I understood only that my mother and father were lost."
Not just the literally lost, but figuratively because they would not stop to help the family in the overturned truck.
How many legs does an octopus have?
two are used for movement, the others are "arms."
In the Summer of the Beautiful White Horse, what do the boys do with the horse?
They secretly ride it every night.
You must include this in your body paragraph to help support your point.
A direct quote from the text.
What is the comma rule used in this sentence?
I need milk, eggs, maple syrup, and pancake mix to make breakfast today.
Use commas to between items in a list.
“You will still remain in my house, that is a matter of course. But I shall not allow you to bring up the children; I dare not trust them to you. . . . From this moment happiness is not the question; all that concerns us is to save the remains, the fragments, the appearance –“ (92)
Torvald, in a Doll's House, has learned that Nora lied to him about taking out a loan. He claims this makes her unfit to be a good mother. He will not allow her to raise them, but will pretend everything is normal to the outside world.
How many senses does a human have?
nine: sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, thermoception - sense of heat, equilibrioception - sense of balance, proprioception - body awareness (sensing where your hands and feet are), nociception - sense of pain
In "The Lottery," what happens to the person who wins the lottery?
They are stoned to death.
What should be longer, the quote or the explanation?
The explanation.
Put quotation marks in the correct places in this sentence:
Huh, he exclaimed, I admit I did not know the answer.
"Huh," he exclaimed, "I admit I did not know the answer."
"There is a man haunts the forest, that
abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on
their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles, all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger I would give him some good counsel. . ."
Rosiland, pretending to be Ganymede, approaches Orlando, and asks him about the poems he is putting on trees. (Act III scene 2)
Which of the following are berries? a. strawberry b. raspberry c. peach d. watermelon
watermelon - a berry is a fleshy fruit containing several seeds bananas, tomatoes oranges, lemons, cucumbers, grapes peppers are berries
In "The Lesson," where does the teacher take them and what can't they do there?
A children's toy store where all the gifts are too expensive to buy.
A strong explanation should mention what in order to help analyze the quote's meaning?
Specific word choices from the quote itself.
Put commas in the correct place in this sentence:
Before the class ends make sure you write down the homework unplug your computers and collect your books.
Before the class ends, make sure you write down the homework, unplug your computers, and collect your books.
"During every class, you strain muscles or fall awkwardly off equipment, and when you overhear the Elite girls laughing, you think they are making fun of you. When you come home, you work out your frustration in your sketches, which even you notice are improving.
The girl discovers her true talents lie in a different activity.
What are Cinderella's slippers made from?
squirrel fur. The story is French. When translated to English, mistook vair - fur for verre - glass
In "Harrison Bergeron," how did the society make people equal?
They wore items to negate their positive traits:
beautiful people wore masks
strong people wore weights
smart people had noise in their ears so they couldn't think
How should you end your body paragraph?
By tying it back to your main point.
Putting a comma before "and" in a sentence is called what type of comma?
An Oxford comma
"I remember sitting in my 7th grade French class and not having any idea why I was there. I did not know any French people, and nothing around me suggested I ever would. France was a rock rotating in another galaxy, around another sun, in another sky that I would never cross." (26)
Coates feeling school forced compliance rather than fostering curiosity, also his feeling of separation from what was outside his daily experiences and struggles.
Which is hairier: a human or a chimpanzee?
both have the exact same number of hair follicles: 5 million