Read the excerpt from A Black Hole is NOT a Hole. For example, imagine a fluffy snowball and a harder-
packed snowball of the same size. The fluffier ball is
made of less stuff. Its pull is wimpier than the pull of the
densely packed ball.
You can feel this difference when you hold the two
snowballs in your hands. Each one presses down on
your hand because of the gravitational attraction it
shares with Earth. The hard-packed snowball has a
stronger attraction to Earth because it is made of more
material. It presses more forcefully than the fluffy one. It
feels heavier
What do the differences in the two snowballs help the
reader understand about gravity?
Hard objects have a stronger attraction to Earth than
fluffy objects
Hard objects have a weaker attraction to Earth than
fluffy objects.
Heavy objects have a stronger attraction to Earth
than light objects
Heavy objects have a weaker attraction to Earth
than light objects

d. because santiago thought any sharks would assume the marlin was part of the boat

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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