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The Book of Dragons
Chapter III The Deliverers of Their Country, an excerpt
By E. Nesbit

It all began with Effie's getting something in her eye. It hurt very much indeed, and it felt something like a red-hot spark—only it seemed to have legs as well, and wings like a fly. Effie rubbed and cried—not real crying, but the kind your eye does all by itself without your being miserable inside your mind—and then she went to her father to have the thing in her eye taken out. Effie's father was a doctor, so of course he knew how to take things out of eyes.

When he had gotten the thing out, he said: "This is very curious." Effie had often got things in her eye before, and her father had always seemed to think it was natural—rather tiresome and naughty perhaps, but still natural. He had never before thought it curious.

Effie stood holding her handkerchief to her eye, and said: "I don't believe it's out." People always say this when they have had something in their eyes.

"Oh, yes—it's out," said the doctor. "Here it is, on the brush. This is very interesting."

Effie had never heard her father say that about anything that she had any share in. She said: "What?"

The doctor carried the brush very carefully across the room, and held the point of it under his microscope—then he twisted the brass screws of the microscope, and looked through the top with one eye.

"Dear me," he said. "Dear, dear me! Four well-developed limbs; a long caudal appendage; five toes, unequal in lengths, almost like one of the Lacertidae, yet there are traces of wings." The creature under his eye wriggled a little in the castor oil, and he went on: "Yes; a bat-like wing. A new specimen, undoubtedly. Effie, run round to the professor and ask him to be kind enough to step in for a few minutes."

"You might give me sixpence, Daddy," said Effie, "because I did bring you the new specimen. I took great care of it inside my eye, and my eye does hurt."

The doctor was so pleased with the new specimen that he gave Effie a shilling, and presently the professor stepped round. He stayed to lunch, and he and the doctor quarreled very happily all the afternoon about the name and the family of the thing that had come out of Effie's eye.

But at teatime another thing happened. Effie's brother Harry fished something out of his tea, which he thought at first was an earwig. He was just getting ready to drop it on the floor, and end its life in the usual way, when it shook itself in the spoon—spread two wet wings, and flopped onto the tablecloth. There it sat, stroking itself with its feet and stretching its wings, and Harry said: "Why, it's a tiny newt!"

The professor leaned forward before the doctor could say a word. "I'll give you half a crown for it, Harry, my lad," he said, speaking very fast; and then he picked it up carefully on his handkerchief.

"It is a new specimen," he said, "and finer than yours, Doctor."

It was a tiny lizard, about half an inch long—with scales and wings.

So now the doctor and the professor each had a specimen, and they were both very pleased. But before long these specimens began to seem less valuable. For the next morning, when the knife-boy was cleaning the doctor's boots, he suddenly dropped the brushes and the boot and the blacking, and screamed out that he was burnt.

And from inside the boot came crawling a lizard as big as a kitten, with large, shiny wings.

"Why," said Effie, "I know what it is. It is a dragon like the one St. George killed."

And Effie was right. That afternoon Towser was bitten in the garden by a dragon about the size of a rabbit, which he had tried to chase, and the next morning all the papers were full of the wonderful "winged lizards" that were appearing all over the country. The papers would not call them dragons, because, of course, no one believes in dragons nowadays—and at any rate the papers were not going to be so silly as to believe in fairy stories. At first there were only a few, but in a week or two the country was simply running alive with dragons of all sizes, and in the air you could sometimes see them as thick as a swarm of bees. They all looked alike except as to size. They were green with scales, and they had four legs and a long tail and great wings like bats' wings, only the wings were a pale, half-transparent yellow, like the gear-boxes on bicycles.

Based on the rising action in the bolded paragraphs, what do we know about Daddy? (5 points)

He is calm and curious.
He is angry and upset.
He is hysterical.
He is uninterested and bored.

Answer:

He is calm and curious

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In the first panel of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi marks her narrative as an autobiographical coming-of-age novel: “This is me when I was 10 years old. This was in 1980” (3). The author also chooses to refer to her childhood protagonist with the nickname “Marji” — a diminutive form of “Marjane.” By differentiating her childhood self from her adult self, Satrapi suggests that her novel will pay close attention to the processes of childhood development and identity formation. How does Satrapi represent her protagonist’s process of identity development? How does Marji begin to discover who she is and what she believes?

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heading
inside address
salutation
closing
body
date
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Prompt 1 - In the Giver, everyone is nearly the same. All things are controlled and individuality has been eliminated. All this is done to bring peace to the common good Is there an advantage to this way of life and how can it be used in today's world?

Prompt 2 - Discuss the attitude toward euthanasia as expressed in The Giver. Does the novel condemn, promote, or donditionally accept the practice? Explain your choice with evidence from the text.

Which is not a reason why a story can have more than one theme? We all have different vocabulary We have different opinions Meaningful works have more than one idea Because two themes are better than one

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The red maple tree is a flowering plant. The longleaf pine tree is a nonflowering plant. Both trees go through various stages in their life cycles. Which stage occurs in the life cycles of both trees?

2. "If such public announcement gave assurance to the Japanese that they 1 could look forward to a life devoted to peaceful pursuits in their homeland and if Japan still refused to surrender our nation might then, in certain circumstances, find itself forced to resort to the use of atomic bombs." O a. Ethos O b. Pathos O c. Logos​

Which sentence should be added to the introductory paragraph at the point indicated to best provide background information about the topic?

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Select the correct answer.

Decide if the clause in capital letters is DEPENDENT or INDEPENDENT.

The mechanic WHO FIXED MY CAR had been at the garage for six months.
A.
A dependent clause
B.
An independent clause

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Which of the following would best work as a topic sentence in a paragraph?
A. Therefore, a hybrid will save you money.
B. Hybrids get better mileage than non-hybrids, often by as much as
10 to 15 miles per gallon.
C. Other alternatives, such as the hydrogen fuel cell, are not currently
available.
D. There are three main reasons to buy a hybrid car.

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Based on the events of the text, which answer choice best states the author's position in “The Fish I Didn’t Catch”?

He believes that his uncle gave him bad advice.

He thinks that as a child, he made a foolish mistake.

He considers his uncle to have been unnecessarily harsh.

He views his own behavior with confusion and shame.

Education empowers a person elaborate this statement​

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"Write a short report for your school magazine about access and facilities for the disabled in a local shopping centre. Write your report in 120-140 words"

A paragraph writing in the lesson The Little Girl
Class 9th

Mother to son poem what are some metaphors in this poem?

How should the following sentence be changed?

The dream is so powerful it is worth cold leaving behind everything they know.

a)

Insert strong after powerful

b)

Change powerful to powerfully

c)

Change cold to coldly

d)
No change needs to be made to this sentence

Grammar (Action and Linking Verbs): Directions: Write A if the underlined word is an action verb. Write L if the underlined word is a linking verb. Write PN if the underlined word is a predicate nominative.

Can the need to protect the elephants’ environment be balanced with the need to protect the elephants?

How does Henry convince his audience that the decisive moment to fight is at hand? and explain if its emotional or logical

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Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo.

Dhofar is a fine city of great size and splendour lying about 500 miles north-west of Shihir. Here again the people are Saracens and worship Mahomet, and are subject to a count who is likewise subject to the sultan of Aden. You must understand that this city is still within the province of Aden. The city stands on the sea and has a very good port, frequented by many merchant ships that import and export great quantities of merchandise. Many good Arab steeds, and horses from other lands as well, are brought here, and the merchants make a handsome profit on them. The city has many other cities and towns under its sway. Here again good incense grows in profusion—I will tell you how. It is produced by trees of no great size, like little fir trees. They are gashed with knives in various places, and out of these gashes oozes the incense. Some of it even oozes from the tree itself without any gashing, in consequence of the great heat that prevails. As for the Arab steeds that are brought here, the merchants afterwards export them to India, making a good profit on the deal.

How does the author's language in this passage reveal his opinion of Dhofar? Select two options.

The author uses the phrase “stands on the sea” to describe Dhofar.
The author says that incense in Dhofar is produced by trees “of no great size.”
The author describes Dhofar's busy port as “very good.”
The author uses the words “fine” and “splendour" to describe Dhofar.
The author uses the phrase "subject to a count" to describe the people of Dhof

write a paragraph using 5 of these words (unceasing, vigilance, wince, consternation, cower, luminous, hindrance) .

In the foyer up four steps a semicircular desk presided To the left side the card catalog On the right newspapers draped over what looked like a quilt rack Magazines face out from the wall —"My First Memory (of Librarians)," Nikki Giovanni What do the explicit details in this section of the poem describe?