Learning Task 1: Before reading the text, match each underlined word in Column
A to its corresponding definition in Column B. Use the given sentences as your hints
to find the correct meanings of the words. Write your answers on your paper.
Column A
C1 Theater critics denigrate her acting
ability.
2. The haughty waiter smirked when!
talked to him.
3. My friend plans to go to some
outlandish place to look for buried
treasures
Her patriotism was so heartfelt that
she quit her job to serve the
community.
5. Gun control is likely to be a
contentious subject in any group
discussion
Column B
A. Likely to cause disagreement
B. Love for one's country
C. To say unfair comments
D. Very strange or unusual
E Blatantly and disdainfully
proud
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Answer:

1. Theater critics denigrate her acting  ability.- C. To say unfair comments.

2. The haughty waiter smirked when I  talked to him.- E. Blatantly and disdainfully  proud.

3. My friend plans to go to some  outlandish place to look for buried  treasures.- D. Very strange or unusual.

4. Her patriotism was so heartfelt that  she quit her job to serve the  community.- B. Love for one's country.

5. Gun control is likely to be a  contentious subject in any group  discussion.- A. Likely to cause disagreement.

Explanation:

The definition of the words in the sentences in Column A are matched with those in Column B as follows-

1. Theater critics denigrate her acting ability.- C. To say unfair comments.

The word "denigrate" means saying something bad or comment in a negative way about someone or something.

2. The haughty waiter smirked when I talked to him.- E Blatantly and disdainfully proud.

The term "smirked" is an expression that is rude, to have a smug expression about something.

3. My friend plans to go to some outlandish place to look for buried treasures.- D. Very strange or unusual.

"Outlandish" means strange, unfamiliar, bizarre, weird.

4. Her patriotism was so heartfelt that she quit her job to serve the community.- B. Love for one's country.

Being "patriotic" means having a strong love for one's country.

5. Gun control is likely to be a contentious subject in any group discussion.- A. Likely to cause disagreement.

The term "contentious" means something that is argumentative, something prone to arguments, leading to debates or controversies.  

When you listen to a speech, what should you focus on?

1. the speaker’s main idea and supporting ideas
2. the way that the speaker moves while speaking
3. the sound of the speaker’s voice

An author wants to show that a character is old and nearing his or her death. What season would be an appropriate setting to introduce the character to the audience? (5 points)

I have bought some pens into negative​

What are some of the main character traits of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye?​

To support his point that the government is an inefficient bureaucracy, Goines says that he _____. stamped money with "Get out of Vietnam" burned his draft card inundated government employees with letters intentionally failed an eye exam

Someone please me help me

Beneatha's dream is to

(100 Points NEED ASAP)
The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells [1898]

But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be

inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the

World?…And how are all things made for man?—

KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)


BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt


No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.


Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end.


The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.


And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.


What key idea does the text below suggest?


The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts.


As their situation grew worse, their course became clear and they lost any compassion.

The growing doom consumed all their power to confront it.

Their immediate needs made them more intelligent than they had been before.

Their intelligence gave them less compassion than less intelligent others.

Gabriella read this excerpt from Blanca Flor.

The Narrator. Late that night, as Juanito waited for her, Blanca Flor packed her belongings into a bag. Before she left the house, she went to the fireplace and spat three times into it.

[BLANCA FLOR joins JUANITO.]

Blanca Flor (quietly calling). Juanito.

Juanito. Blanca Flor, is it time?

Blanca Flor. Yes. We must leave quickly, before he finds out I am gone, or it will be too late.

Juanito. Won't he know you are gone as soon as he calls for you?

Blanca Flor. Not right away. I've used my powers to fool him. But it won't last long. Let's go!

Gabriella predicts that Blanca Flor will safely escape Don Ricardo. Which line or statement best clues Gabriella to her prediction?

“We must leave quickly.”
Juanito waited for her.
Blanca Flor packed her belongings into a bag.
“I've used my powers to fool him.”

Read this assignment.

Plan a speech in which you encourage students to attend the students versus faculty basketball game.
What is an effective hook for this assignment?
A. Albert Einstein Middle School has hosted a student versus faculty basketball game for eleven consecutive years.
B. Our faculty are basketball enthusiasts, and two of them played basketball at the college level.
C. The gym will be packed to the rafters as students try to outwit their teachers and score a slam-dunk victory.
D. Our eighth graders will wear the Einstein Middle School team uniforms, while the teachers will create a uniform of their own.

what is love explain me plzz​

Read the passage below and complete the instruction that follows.



I love to wear my sneakers. My favorite pair is completely worn out.



Identify the sentence that correctly combines the above passage into a compound sentence.

I love to wear my sneakers, but my favorite pair is completely worn out.
Although my favorite pair is completely worn out, I love to wear my sneakers.
I love to wear my sneakers, my favorite pair is completely worn out.
I love to wear my sneakers; but my favorite pair is completely worn out.

Castaways, we are castaways, ahoy there, we are castaways
were stuck where we are
with no house
no car
castaways
ahoy there

1. What are claims and counterclaims?​

Which of the following does Douglass NOT say regarding slavery?
A
There is no doubt that slaves are equally human as their owners.
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B
Men who have been worked like beasts come to act like them.
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Slavery comes from men, not from God, and is not blessed by God.
D
It is easy to understand why slavery is morally wrong and unjust.

May someone please help me answer this?

All of the following are examples of plagiarism, except:
a. Using a secondary source
b. Submitting a paper written by someone else
c. Failing to acknowledge the sources of words or information
d. Using word and phrases from the source text and patching them together in new sentences​

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11. She didn't want to miss her meeting she made sure she left early


A) Sentence.

B) Run-on

C). Fragment




12.Many animals in the ocean around Antartica.


A) Sentence.

B) Run-on

C) Fragment

We have discussed the types of feature story, give a type of feature article that you can write. How do you write this type of article? Use blue font color for your responses.

Write the four letter word which will complete all five given. ___ time __wright __mate __ground _thing

What is a theme of "July"? Hard work is important all year long, even in the depths of summer. Nature at last comes back to life in the summer. Life slows down during the long, hot days of summer. Just as July is the best time of the year, youth is the best time of life.

which character does not believe women are equal to men?

antigone
ismene
polyneices
eteocles

"At all events I assure you I don't waste money unprofitably. But I can't find it in my heart to deny myself the pleasure of entertaining my friends. I need that sort of thing,you know. I have lived for so long shut out of it all, that it is a necessity of life to me to mix with young, eager, ambitious men, men of liberal and active minds;:"(Dr. Stockman)
a
Dr. Stockman is only concerned about having a good time and not about the welfare of the people
b
Dr. Stockman is a man that needs people around him who approve of and love him
c
Dr. Stockman is essentially a hermit at heart but must entertain people he is to be accepted in the community
d
Dr. Stockman wants eager minds around him so they can do his work for him

identify the sound device in the title "Substance abuse scare"​

Is "within us" parallel to "within out”

Please help I suck at English

Read the passage and answer the question.

[1]Nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the
tree yuccas.Tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that
triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the Sierras and coastwise hills. The
yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old
[5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. After its death, which is
slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even
the moonlight fearful. But it isn't always this way. Before the yucca has come to flower, while
yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of
sugary sap, the Indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their
[10] own delectation.

In the last sentence of the passage, the author uses the word "flower" to describe a stage in the yucca tree's growth. Which word has a similar denotation to "flower" but would create a more awe-filled tone?

develop
flourish
mature
unfold

What is one of the most common feet of meter in the English language?

the tetrambic foot


the iambic foot


the hexambic foot


the trochambic foot

Read the sentences below:
Grocers know we're more likely to buy certain items on impulse. That's why the gum and candy are placed so close to the checkout aisle.
Choose the correct version of the combined sentence. (1 point)
а
Grocers know we're more likely to buy certain items on impulse; that's why the gum and candy are placed so close to the
checkout aisle.
Ob
Grocers know we're more likely to buy certain items on impulse that's why the gum and candy are placed so close to the checkout
aisle.
Ос
Grocers know we're more likely to buy certain items; on impulse, that's why the gum and candy are placed so close to the
checkout aisle.
Od
Grocers know we're more likely to buy certain items on impulse, that's why; the gum and candy are placed so close to the
checkout aisle

To kill a mockingbird
1. When Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose pushes Jem too
far, he loses his mind a bit, destroying, her flowers and
breaking Scout's baton. What other rough thing does he
do in that moment? What message can we take from this
part of the incident?

Which answer best states a theme of Twelfth Night, Act I?

A-There is no love like the love of family.

B-True love is best expressed through poetry.

C-Appearances can be deceiving.

D-First impressions carry the most weight. I’m in middle school 6th grade K12