"Oh, good, you're all here," said Pola as she walked into the community theater. She began handing out copies of her script to the assembled actors.
"This is a lot to memorize," remarked Gerhardt, flipping through the pages. "Neville, your character's name is Rhombus Fairchild. Boy, I bet he was picked on as a kid."
"You're Aces—what kind of title is that?" Neville asked.
"The play takes place in the 1920s, Neville," replied Pola irritably. "People used catchphrases like that back then. It means 'You're the best.' "
"If the play takes place in the past, why are the main characters fighting giant evil robots in the third act?" asked Nadezhda. Gerhardt and Neville gasped in surprise and started reading the script with renewed interest.
"Cool! I get to fire a laser gun," bragged Neville.
"Oh, man!" Gerhardt groaned. "My character gets killed at the end of Act III. Death scenes are the worst."
"Quit complaining, everyone," exclaimed Pola. "I had to write this by myself in two days while working a full-time job. It may not be Shakespeare, but it's good enough for community theater. I think we should just do the best we can with what we've got."
"That's a terrible attitude," Nadezhda said. "The proceeds from this play will be donated to charity, and I think we should try our hardest to give people their money's worth. Why don't we all work together to write a new script?"
"Fine!" Pola yelled. "I'll let you guys take over the play, and I'll save my efforts for people with better taste in entertainment." The three actors watched in amazement as Pola stomped out of the theater.
"Whoops," said Nadezhda with an embarrassed smile. "I forgot that she hates for anyone to question her talent as a writer."
"I'm just sad I won't get to wear a jet pack and use phrases like 'You're the bees' knees,' " Neville laughed.
"I thought doing a death scene was bad," said Gerhardt. "If we don't get a script put together by tonight, we'll all be in serious trouble." Nadezhda grabbed a notebook from her purse.
"This will be a snap," she said confidently. "What's a good topic for a play?"
"I know!" declared Gerhardt. "Neville and I will be lawmen sent from the future who try to stop a giant monster from destroying Dubuque, Iowa."
"Well, it is original," Nadezhda replied slowly. "But how would we create a giant monster on our $10 prop budget?"
"Good point," admitted Gerhardt.
"Here's an idea," said Neville. "What if Gerhardt and I play Elvis and Abraham Lincoln, who have been brought back to life by scientists. We use our skills to defend the president, played by Nadezhda, from the cast of the musical Cats, who have been turned into vicious zombies." Neville's voice trailed off as he realized that both Nadezhda and Gerhardt were staring at him with their mouths open.
"That's very ambitious," Nadezhda finally said. "I think it would be a little difficult for three people to perform onstage, though."
"You're probably right," said Neville.
"I hate to say it, but our ideas are terrible," Gerhardt remarked. "What are we going to do?" The three actors dashed off the stage and hurried outside.
"She's over by her car!" exclaimed Nadezhda. "Let's go get her. I'm not too proud to beg; are you guys?"
"No way," replied Gerhardt. "As far as I'm concerned, death scenes are the bees' knees."



8. Which of the following contributes to the conflict in the passage?


A.

Pola's sensitivity about her writing skills


B.

Neville's ambition to become the lead actor


C.

Nadezhda's jealousy over Pola's talent


D.

Gerhardt's lack of talent as an actor



9. Which of the following best explains the primary conflict in the passage?


A.

Three actors collaborate with a script writer to produce a play that will earn enough money to support a charity.


B.

Three actors struggle to pursue their childhood dream of becoming script writers for a community theater.


C.

After offending the script writer, three actors struggle to produce a new script in time for their first performance.


D.

After treating a script writer with disrespect, three actors find out that they have been fired from the community theater.



10. What causes Pola to feel upset in the passage?


A.

She is unable to think of a new topic for the play.


B.

She doesn't get to participate in the play as an actress.


C.

She believes that her hard work is unappreciated.


D.

She is jealous of Nadezhda's talent as a writer.

Answer:

The answer is A. Pola's sensitivity about her writing skills.

Explanation:

Its because after Pola leaves the theater in anger, Nadezhda states, "I forgot that she hates for anyone to question her talent as a writer." Pola's sensitivity about her writing skills contributes to the conflict in this passage.

which of the following is an example of cardiorespiratory Fitness activity and A doing yoga B lifting weights C
gymnastics or D cycle ​

Read each statement and decide whether it is a scientific fact or science fiction.

Beings from other planets can disguise themselves as rocks.


All living organisms are made of cells.


Black holes are being used for time travel into the future.


Water can change forms to become ice or steam.

Read the following sentence and answer the question that follows.

The ancient Greeks developed the concept of participatory democracy, but they also practiced slavery, denied political rights to women, and __________.

Which phrase best completes the sentence above? (5 points)

Question 1 options:

1)

wars of conquest

2)

waged wars of conquest

3)

were waging wars of conquest

4)

were a people who waged wars of conquest

select the sentence with the correct punctuation.
1. I don't see the point of lengthy homework: Three problems offer practice and show mastery just as well as twenty problems.
2.I don't see the point of lengthy homework Three problems offer practice and show mastery just as well as twenty problems.
3.I don't see the point of lengthy homework, Three problems offer practice and show mastery just as well as twenty problems.
4.I don't see the point of lengthy homework; Three problems offer practice and show mastery just as well as twenty problems.

What does it mean to have good Sportsmanship?

What is the "great desideratum" Madison refers to in this excerpt?

Why is the meaning of emotion in poems?

Someone pls help

Which statement describes a feature of The Cruisers?

Actions on stage help show what happens in the story.
The narration describes the main character’s thoughts.
Dialogue tags come before the words a character says.
Stage directions explain how the characters move.

HELP PLEASE TAKING A TEST !!!! Which selection from the excerpt from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 supports the idea that the creation of the jenny had positive effects?

what are the results for perpetrators and victims in Darfur genocide

Next year you have to choose your subject stream and you are confused. Write a letter to the school counsellor asking and inquiring about all the relevant information required for the choice of subjects they have to offer, the required marks cut-off and the future prospects that the subjects have to offer.

Is the sentence below written in the active voice or passive voice?
Pua's new song is being performed by the jazz choir.
Active Voice
Passive Voice
Report a problem

Now, it's time to fill in a graphic organizer about the main topic and key details.

First, write the main topic, or what the text is mostly about.

Then, write in three key details that support the main topic.

If you need help with the key details, use information from the earlier questions!​

100 POINTS NO FAKE ANSWERS
Now that you understand the characters in the story and their actions and feelings a little better, you are almost ready to retell the story of Alfred the Great in your own words. Read over the following storytelling hints and remember them. Know the story well Understand the character traits of the people involved Use colorful words and expressions to reveal feelings and attitudes Pause slightly to emphasize a word or phrase or for a special effect Use pitch and stress to lend variety and meaning to your voice Tell a story. Ask a friend or parent to listen to you tell the story of Alfred the Great. Ask your listener to tell you if you remembered to use all the points above in telling your story. After you tell the story, it's time for you to write about the experience. Answer the following questions in complete sentences. 1. Briefly write down the story you told in your own words. If you chose a story other than the one about Alfred the Great, include the title and author. 2. What did you find most challenging about telling a story? . 3. What did you find most enjoyable about telling a story? . 4. Write down two things you would do differently if you were to tell the story again. . 5. Write down two suggestions that your listener(s) gave for improvement. If your listener(s) has not yet made suggestions, ask for some and write them below. Option: Pick your own favorite story, approved by your teacher, and retell it in your own words. Then answer the questions above.

from “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” in Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Look at a meeting-house, or a court-house, or a jail, or a shop, or a dwelling-house, and say what that thing really is before a true gaze, and they would all go to pieces in your account of them. Men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before Adam and after the last man. In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry—determined to make a day of it. Why should we knock under and go with the stream? Let us not be upset and overwhelmed in that terrible rapid and whirlpool called a dinner, situated in the meridian shallows. Weather this danger and you are safe, for the rest of the way is down hill. With unrelaxed nerves, with morning vigor, sail by it, looking another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses. If the engine whistles, let it whistle till it is hoarse for its pains. If the bell rings, why should we run? We will consider what kind of music they are like. Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through Church and State, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a point d'appui, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer, but a Realometer, that future ages might know how deep a freshet of shams and appearances had gathered from time to time. If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things. I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. My head is hands and feet. I feel all my best faculties concentrated in it. My instinct tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and fore paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the richest vein is somewhere hereabouts; so by the divining-rod and thin rising vapors I judge; and here I will begin to mine.

The speaker’s primary purpose in this passage is to
A.
criticize the fast-paced nature of society
B.
explain his relationship with God
C.
promote awareness of the natural world
D.
encourage the audience to find reality in the moment
E.
describe his daily pursuits

Write the fact family for the numbers 32, 8, and 4.

What effect do the line breaks have on the tone of the poem?

Answer choices for the above question

The line breaks create an animated tone by maintaining a quick rhythm.

The line breaks create a cautionary tone with a heavy, jarring rhythm.

The line breaks create a calm tone by slowing down the pace of the rhythm.

The line breaks have no effect on the tone of the poem.

Grade 7 collection 6 test

In the article, what is the most likely reason Emmitt travels to Burnt Corn, Alabama?

i’ll give brainiest if you answer CORRECTLY and ASAP!!!

Read the excerpt from Free the Children.

"School," I had asked him, "would you like to go to school?"
"What is school? What is it like? What do people do there?"
"What do you hope for the future?" I said.
"I will do the same job. I will work to pay the debt. I will work to eat. One day I will take a loan from the owner. My children will have to pay."

Why does the author most likely include this interaction?

to emphasize the generational cycle of debt slavery
to highlight how Iqbal’s work helped people
to show why Iqbal was targeted for his work
to illustrate how people escape from debt slavery

4. How does the repeating structure of the lines in the first stanza contribute to the meaning of the poem? a. by connecting the speaker to historical rivers b. by describing how rivers have changed over time C. by showing why the rivers can cause people to dream d. by explaining why the speaker has abandoned the rivers

The poem is the negro speaks of rivers ​

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Why is such great care taken in how the news is delivered to Mrs. Mallard? Would the news have been delivered in a similar way if a man was receiving the news of a perished loved one? Consider the expectations of both a man and a woman during this time period.

In Scene 2 why does Friar panic when he finds out the letter was not yet delivered to Romeo and why is this a key turning point

How was yalls break? Mine was pretty good

Douglass claims that American churches...
А.
are inspiring a majority of Americans to act
compassionately and disregard the Fugitive Slave
Act.
B
have historically been the greatest proponents of
keeping slavery in the U.S., because it existed in
biblical times.
С
have historically been the greatest proponents of
abolishing slavery in the U.S., for moral reasons.
D
are morally obliged to fight against slavery but
have encouraged it, both actively and by failing to
act against it

Write a paragraph that uses “your”six times. It could be about anything as long as it’s school appropriate.

Which best identifies Jackie Robinson’s reason for writing his letter to President Eisenhower? He hopes that the president will take immediate action to curb segregation laws at the federal level. He believes that the president should punish Governor Faubus for his inexcusable actions. He feels that the president has too much sympathy for pro-segregationists like Governor Faubus. He thinks that the president should be commended for his remarks at the Summit Meeting of Negro Leaders

Hey guys please Answer this questions...!!​