Characters
I sit with Edna after her first swim in the ocean
Robert
What folly! To bathe at such an hour in this heat!
Leonce
Who is responsible for Edna'a sexual awakening?
I am singing in the play tomorrow.
Gerund, Infinitive, or Verb?
verb
After she pulled on my knitted sweater she left a ____ hole!
gaping
I used to be in love with a playwright and had his picture in my room.
Edna
You are the only one worth playing for. Those others? Bah!
Mlle. Reisz
Why can't Robert be with Edna? (3 reasons)
1. He doesn't understand her "awakening."
2. Does not understand Edna is done with her marriage.
3. He thinks he'll look bad marrying a divorced woman.
My favorite hobby is singing.
gerund, participial, infinitive
gerund
reiterate
I love my business ventures.
Mr. Pontellier
I'm not going to be forced into doing things. I don't want to go abroad. I want to be let alone.
Edna
I open and close the Awakening (hint: I am not a person).
a bird
I've been singing since I was young
prepositional phrase, adverb clause, or appositive
urbane
I suspected Edna's affair but was too scared to tell Leonce.
Dr. Mandelet
A bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
Mlle. Reisz
Chopin often refers to the sea as ....
a serpent
My students, Aaden, Andy, and Jaden, read Act 3 aloud.
prepositional phrase, appositive phrase, or adverb clause
appositive phrase
Miss A is ___ to student requests for grade changes.
impervious
I love the attention my pregnancy gives me.
Adele
You have slept one hundred years ... and I have been out under the shed reading a book
Robert Lebrun
What does Edna picture as Adele plays the piano?
a naked man on a beach with a bird that flies away
Which sentence is correctly punctuated with commas?
1. My sister's class, a room of second graders, are very immature and like stealing her candy.
2. Mrs. Johns was sent a new student a boy who was in regular English last year after he passed 9th grade English with a 105%.
1. My sister's class, a room of second graders, are very immature and like stealing her candy.
After the hurricane, New York experienced a ___ which destroyed most of the lower east side.
holocaust