An excerpt from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum


Chapter 12: The Search for the Wicked Witch


The Emerald City was soon left far behind. As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West, and the ground was untilled.


In the afternoon the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no trees to offer them shade; so that before night Dorothy and Toto and the Lion were tired, and lay down upon the grass and fell asleep, with the Woodman and the Scarecrow keeping watch.


Now the Wicked Witch of the West had but one eye, yet that was as powerful as a telescope, and could see everywhere. So, as she sat in the door of her castle, she happened to look around and saw Dorothy lying asleep, with her friends all about her. They were a long distance off, but the Wicked Witch was angry to find them in her country; so she blew upon a silver whistle that hung around her neck.


At once there came running to her from all directions a pack of great wolves. They had long legs and fierce eyes and sharp teeth.


"Go to those people," said the Witch, "and tear them to pieces."


"Are you not going to make them your slaves?" asked the leader of the wolves.


"No," she answered, "one is of tin, and one of straw; one is a girl and another a Lion. None of them is fit to work, so you may tear them into small pieces."


"Very well," said the wolf, and he dashed away at full speed, followed by the others.


Read the passage on the left to answer the following questions:


1)

What inference can be made about the country of the West?

A) The land is empty and barren.

B) People haven't lived there in years.

C) It is far away from the Emerald City.

D) It is watched by the Wicked Witch of the West.

2)

What 2 lines BEST support your answer?

A) the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no trees to offer them shade

B) They were a long distance off, but the Wicked Witch was angry to find them in her country

C) for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West and the ground was untilled.

D) The Emerald City was soon left far behind, As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier,

E) At once there came running to her from all directions a pack of great wolves. They had long legs and fierce eyes and sharp teeth.

Passage 1: Excerpt from Will Yellow School Buses Soon Become Rolling Ads?
1 Tight school budgets could soon translate into Missouri school districts’ selling ad space on yellow school buses.



2 Missouri state Rep. T.J. Berry, R-Kearney, says his bill—HB 224—isn’t a cure-all by any stretch. But legalizing ads inside and outside the buses would give school districts one additional way to raise money in these tough times.



3 “Every single school district has had to deal with budget concerns,” Berry said last week. “And generally speaking, the way they have had to deal with those has been cuts or tax increases.”



4 The school bus is something that is already out there and paid for, he said. His bill would permit districts to generate a modest stream of income from their buses.



5 Few question the need for finding additional funds when it comes to educating children, but at least two groups think the school bus exteriors should remain ad-free.



6 “There is no such thing as free money,” said Josh Golin, associate director for the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood. “There are real costs to this: the price of selling out your students to advertisers.”



7 Students don’t need the first and last message they receive from their schools each day to be advertisements, Golin said. Students boarding a bus are certainly a captive audience.



8 The National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services opposes advertising on safety grounds. Obscuring the recognizable school-bus yellow exterior with ads and distracting other drivers “present a safety problem around school buses that cannot be ignored,” the group said in its position paper.



9 National studies have shown that anything that diverts a driver’s attention from the road can pose a hazard, opponents say.



10 “And a big yellow bus doesn’t distract?” Berry asked.



11 Several years ago in Indiana, a Department of Education lawyer suggested that allowing advertisements on buses would invite First Amendment challenges by spurned advertisers, the group noted.



12 Berry said the bill would limit the types of advertising that would be allowed.



13 The regulations would prohibit ads that contain obscene or sexual material, or messages associated with gambling, tobacco products, alcohol, and political campaigns or causes. The ads could not promote drug use or “any illegal activity or antisocial behavior.” They can’t contain “harmful, discriminatory, false, misleading or deceptive” messages.



14 “There are a lot of safeguards being built in,” he said.



15 Berry emphasized that the space reserved for the ads would be “very limited,” meaning toward the back of the bus.



16 By 2012, nine states—Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Tennessee, Texas and Utah—permitted advertising on the exterior of school buses, according to the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. Several, including Missouri, considered it last year.



17 The bill made it out of the Missouri House last year but did not clear the Senate, Berry said. He acknowledged that the idea was “very controversial.”

(questions)
In Passage 1, how does the author compare the issues of tax increases and advertising on buses?


A)They are both actions that require safeguards.


B)They are both issues of controversy in school districts.


C)They are both possible approaches to dealing with budgetary concerns.


D)They are both present problems that cannot be ignored by state representatives.

I NEED HELP................

In paragraph 1 of selection 2, the use of quotation marks with the word " dangers " presents the author’s tone as


A)concerned.


B)indifferent.


C)questioning.


D)sarcastic.

(the paragraph)
When crime spikes in a city, one of the first things local governments propose is enforcing a teen curfew. Officials often use emotional arguments that teens either aren’t safe at night or are causing trouble. A curfew, they say, will help reduce crime and save children from all sorts of “dangers.”

Read the excerpt from We Shall Not Be Moved.

League women came and went, usually at a run. Some were "ladies,” like Mary Dreier, others were worker-members, like Rose Schneiderman, a former cap maker, and Leonora O’Reilly, who had started work in a collar factory at the age of eleven. Another League member, Rose Pastor Stokes, known as the red Yiddish Cinderella, used to work in a cigar factory. When she became engaged to the son of a millionaire — they had met at a settlement house — front page headlines in the New York Times announced J. G. Phelps Stokes to Wed Young Jewess. At strike headquarters Mrs. Stokes delivered fiery speeches about freeing workers from the shackles of the bosses.

What conclusion can be drawn by connecting knowledge of the historical time period with information in the text?

The women of the league were wealthy women who had little-to-no experience working in a garment factory.
The support of wealthy league women contributed to the successful outcome of the female garment workers' strike.
Women who worked in garment factories were often married, so it was not critical that they receive equal pay.
Women who did not need to work were not interested in or aware of the difficulties faced by garment factory workers.

Kris has a baking blog, and he’s writing a post about how to decorate a birthday cake. Which would be the most helpful feature for Kris to include with his post? a poll that asks readers for their favorite flavor of cake an audio recording of Kris describing the decorating process a gallery of photographs of each step of the decorating process a video of Kris’s family enjoying the decorated cake

Passage 1: Excerpt from Chapter 4 of Jane Eyre



In this section from the end of Chapter 4, Jane Eyre is still a child and is taking leave of her guardian, Mrs. Reed, who has treated her with great unkindness.



1 I gathered my energies and launched them in this blunt sentence—



2 “I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed; and this book about the liar, you may give to your girl, Georgiana, for it is she who tells lies, and not I.”



In paragraph 2 of Passage 1, Jane exclaims, “I am not deceitful.” What reason does Jane have for using the word deceitful?


A)to explain that she is not lazy


B)to explain that she is not truthful


C)to explain that she is not forgetful


D)to explain that she is not dishonest

Assignment: 01.04 How Theme Develops Details Please follow the directions as indicated in the lesson. Due Date N/A Points Possible 100 Course Contribution 100 Submissions Allowed 3 Submission Number 0 Student comments GUYS ALL IT ASKING IS HOW THEME DEVOLVES HELP

if your sentence starts with a number should you still capitalize the first letter or not?
Example (answer with 1 is 1 is right. same with 2.)
1.85 People came to see this movie
2.85 people came to see this movie

Due: Monday, October 26, 2020, at 5:00 pm

When you begin a writing assignment, it is important that you outline the main points you intend to address. Keeping yourself organized when you write and having a clear plan is important. You will now complete an outline for a personal narrative essay. You will organize the main points that you want to include in your actual narrative essay. In your narrative outline, you will need to include the main points below in your outline.

Personal narratives are developed with a specific five-paragraph plot structure that includes an introductory paragraph, body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. Since personal narratives usually tell a story, they use standard plot elements, such as exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

Topic: Clearly state your chosen topic for your narrative here.



I. Introduction: In one to two sentences, provide background on the main point of your narrative. You likely want to summarize the five Ws plus how so that you are able to set the scene and establish your main characters.



II. First Body Paragraph: In one to two sentences, summarize the rising action of your narrative.



III. Second Body Paragraph: In one to two sentences, summarize the climax of your narrative.



IV. Third Body Paragraph: In one to two sentences, summarize the falling action (or what occurs after the climax) of your narrative.



V. Conclusion: In one to two sentences, summarize the conclusion or resolution by discussing what you learned or what new perspective you gained.

Elaborate on Max’s statement: “He doesn’t need a suit of armor.” What is Max implying about Killer Kane?

FREAK THE MIGHTY! PLEASE HELP!

25. Write an objective summary of paragraphs 43–70 in Scene 3 of John Henry.

What is the most likely meaning of the simile in the following sentence?

The birds started singing at 5 a.m., sounding like a company of fire engines headed to a huge blaze.

A. It suggests that the speaker believes fire engines are too loud.
B. It suggests that the birds were communicating an urgent message to one another.
C. It suggests that the speaker was woken up by the birds.
D. It suggests that the birds were loud and unpleasant sounding.

List five words that contain the Greek or Latin root/affix: auto - self; directed from within

What has hands and a face, but can’t hold anything or smile?
Get Brainliest if correct.

We lived there for three days – Mother and we five children, the youngest of whom was three years old. Because of the rigorous physical examination that we had to submit to, particularly of the eyes, there was this terrible anxiety that one of us might be rejected. And if one of us was, what would the rest of the family do?

—Angelo Pellegrini
from Immigrant Kids,
Russell Freedman

Choose the detail that best supports the idea that the family was worried they would be rejected.

A: The eye examination was rigorous.
B: There were too many children.
C: The children were too young.
D: They were there for three days.

What do readers learn about Manjiro from the qualities he hopes to have?

1) According to the Pew Research Center, 26 percent of American adults say they have not read a book in the past year. (2) Meanwhile, science supports the idea that reading is beneficial in many ways.3) Research conducted at the University of Toronto found that people who read short stories are more open-minded than people who read only nonfiction. (4) The authors said, “Although nonfiction reading allows students to learn the subject matter, it may not always help them in thinking about it.” 5) Yale University research shows that people who read books live longer. (6) A study of over 3,600 people over fifty found that people who read for thirty minutes daily lived an average of twenty-three months longer than people who did not read. (7) Reading improves many abilities, such as vocabulary, concentration, and thinking skills. (8) Reading also has an effect on emotional intelligence, social skills, and empathy-sensitivity to others’ feelings. (9) All of these things contribute to a person’s life span.10) Aim to read fifty books a year. (11) That number may sound like a lot, but think about how much time you waste scrolling on your cell phone. (12) Writer Marissa Fuller reports that reading more has made her feel peaceful and happier and that she is sleeping better. (13) She says, “his goal has truly changed my life. It’s really helping me to take a look at how I spend my day.”
Which phrase or sentence from the passage best sums up the writer’s claim/controlling idea?
Write the sentence number. What type of evidence does the writer use to support the claim/controlling idea? (Example: facts, quotes, statistics, etc.)
Provide two types of evidence that support the claim/controlling idea?

HELP PLEASE YOU WILL GET BRAINLIEST

Mia wants to write an essay about the different pieces of equipment needed for horseback riding. Which detail would best support Mia's purpose? A. It can cost over $100 a month to keep a horse, but some stable owners will offer a reduced rate if you are willing to help out around the barn. B. The most crucial safety tip a rider must always follow is wearing a properly fitted helmet. C. Reins are leather straps that attach the horse's mouth to the rider's hands to help guide the horse. D. My first horse, Ella, was an American quarter horse with brown hair and a black mane.

Please help! Will mark brainliest, will give 5 stars, and will say thanks!

What is the most likely meaning of the metaphor in the following sentence?

Caden kicked the soccer ball hard, transforming it into a missile headed straight for the goal.

A. The metaphor comparing Caden to a soccer ball suggests that Caden is very athletic.
B. The metaphor comparing the soccer ball to a missile suggests that the ball moved rapidly toward its target.
C. The metaphor comparing the soccer ball to a missile suggests that the ball burst due the strong kick.
D. The metaphor comparing Caden to a soccer ball suggests that Caden runs extremely fast.

What are Miss Thomas and Mr. Calloway arguing about before Bud gets to the breakfast table?

A. What they are going to do for the day.

B. What to eat for breakfast.

C. Bud working for them.

D. Bud staying with them and helping them out.

Which statement best gives the central idea of the excerpt from Immigrant Kids?

A: Medical examinations at Ellis Island forced many immigrants to return to their home countries.
B: Immigrants were willing to leave their homes and journey to the United States because they believed their lives would be better.
C: Immigrant children were luckier than their parents because they were able to start a new life so young.
D: Ellis Island was an important part of an immigrant's arrival to the United States.

What type of figurative language is, "Were your ears burning?"

A. onomatopoeia

B. allusion

C. idiom

D. simile

What is the figurative language in this sentence? "...so that's how this cookie is going to crumble."

A. onomatopoeia

B. hyperbole

C. idiom

D. simile

What is the figurative language in this sentence? "I had to fight like a tiger to wake up the next morning."

A. metaphor

B. hyperbole

C. idiom

D. simile

Which of the following characteristics of the archetypal mother figure are demonstrated by Teddy’s mother in “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”?

A.Teddy’s mother demonstrates qualities that are valued by her culture.
B.Teddy’s mother performs evil deeds against Rikki-Tikki.
C.Teddy’s mother acts as a protector of Rikki-Tikki on his quest.
D.Teddy’s mother guides and directs Rikki-Tikki on his quest.

What story uses problem and solution?
A) Sam and his friends were playing baseball, and Sam hit a home run over into the neighbor's yard. A big mean dog lived in the yard and he barked when Sam came near the fence. The dog was a large Labrador Retriever. His name was "Killer" and all the boys were very scared of him.
B) Sam and his friends were playing baseball, and Sam hit a home run over into the neighbor's yard. A big mean dog lived in the yard and he barked when Sam came near the fence. Trevor suggested giving the dog a treat to calm it down. It worked and they were able to get the baseball.
C) Sam and his friends were playing baseball, and Sam hit a home run over into the neighbor's yard. Sam ran the bases while the other boys went to retrieve the ball. It was the winning run and all of Sam's teammates gave him high fives. After the game, all the boys went for ice cream.
D) Sam and his friends were playing baseball, and Sam hit a home run over into the neighbor's yard. While Sam was playing baseball, his sister was at ice skating practice. She had to skate for two hours every day and missed having free time. Every weekend she spent hours in competitions.

HAHA *Antonio crying in laughter* ''Stop Driving so fast'' said Fernanda ''yes please Stop It were going to end up crashing'' Catalina said to Antonio. He Yelled back '' NO WERE NOT CAN YALL JUST STOP TALKING SO I CAN CONCENTRATE!! '' Well why are you RACING this guy anyways if we do end up crashing all he is going to do Is Leave us here dead'' * '' Oh I'm so scared were going to crash'' Antonio muttered under his breath looking at Catalina in the back seat

'' YO WATCH OUT'' *Screamed Fernando*

*Skrrr* *crash*

( 5 MINUTS LATER )

( Crawling out the flipped Damaged car ) *Screaming & Crying in Terrier* ''HURRY CALL THE POLICE'' Said Catalina ''OK '' ( Yelled the man Across the street while watching Catalina get out the car hurting ) *Typing on phone* ''Hello 911 What's Your're Emergency'' ''YESS WE NEED THE AMBULENCE HERE NOW ON *BEAR CREEK STREET 8564 THERE WAS A HUGE ACCIEDENT '' Ok Sir Please Calm Down The Police and Ambulance Are On Their Way now what happened is there anyone hurt? Asked the Lady. ''YES THERE IS THERE ARE BROKEN PIECES'S OF CAR EVERYWHERE AND THERE ARE TEEN'S IN THERE, AND THERE IS ALSO GIRL THAT IS HURT''. ''Ok'' were you there when the Accident Occurred '' No I wasn't I just came out to take the trash out'' Ok and where are you''? Umm I'm at the Gas Station'' *Police And Ambulance Siren's* ( Rushing Down The Street ) . The Police are here * Hangs up*

*Man Running to the Police Car* ! HELP THERE ARE SOME TEENAGERS IN THAT

CRASHED CAR SITTING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND A GIRL SHE'S HURT! *Police Hops out the car* ''Ok let me deal with this * Clicks on Flashlight*.

It was below 50 degrees Outside and the Street was frozen

It makes Driving sound like limbs of a tree Crackling.

Have you ever had something happen without Being Planned? Or something not Being Known before it happens. Like a Feeling That you feel like something Bad Is Going To Happen.

''I could feel the pain in my right leg, my Body shaking and trembling while I try to talk to the police scared about what to tell him and how my parent's will react with my behavior and why I was out here this late out with my friend's what am I even going to tell their parent's that their Daughter's and son's died all just because I wanted to sneak out and have fun.

Hello this was a Narrative Process Piece Hope You Enjoy Reading *Tell me if You Need Me To Change Anything

A brown bird sang on a blossomy tree,
Sang in the moonshine, merrily,
Three little songs, one, two, and three,
A song for his wife, for himself, and me.
The passage is MOST LIKELY which of these?
A) act
B) book
C) chapter
D) stanza

In the Passage 2, what is the main action of the poem?


A)A discovery ship sails out into the middle of the unknown.


B)The admiral tells the crew to keep sailing although they only see ocean.


C)The sailors prepare daily to overthrow the captain and take over the ship.


D)The sailors fear they may be lost or possibly sailing into some great danger.


Passage 2: "Columbus"

Behind him lay the gray Azores,

Behind the Gates of Hercules;

Before him not the ghost of shores;

Before him only shoreless seas.

5 The good mate said: "Now must we pray,

For lo! the very stars are gone.

Brave Adm'r'l, speak; what shall I say?"

"Why, say, 'Sail on! sail on! and on!'"



"My men grow mutinous day by day;

10 My men grow ghastly, wan and weak."

The stout mate thought of home; a spray

Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek.

"What shall I say, brave Adm'r'l, say,

If we sight naught but seas at dawn?"

15 "Why, you shall say at break of day:

'Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!'"



They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow,

Until at last the blanched mate said:

"Why, now not even God would know

20 Should I and all my men fall dead.

These very winds forget their way,

For God from these dread seas is gone.

Now speak, brave Adm'r'l, speak and say"-

He said: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"



25 They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate:

"This mad sea shows his teeth to-night.

He curls his lip, he lies in wait,

He lifts his teeth, as if to bite!

Brave Adm'r'l, say but one good word:

30 What shall we do when hope is gone?"

The words leapt like a leaping sword:

"Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!"



Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck,

And peered through darkness. Ah, that night

35 Of all dark nights! And then a speck-

A light! A light! At last a light!

It grew, a starlit flag unfurled!

It grew to be Time's burst of dawn.

He gained a world; he gave that world

40 Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"

What individuals, events, and ideas brought Malala to this point in her memoir?