Read the passage below and use your word structure strategy to help you determine the meaning of the underlined words in the passage. Write the meanings of each underlined word and explain how you determined each meaning,
Monday morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday mornings always found him so - because it began another
week's slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had no intervening holiday, it made the
going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious
Underlined words are intervening, fetters, and, odious

Once soueif's and her nieces join the protest, there is a distinct shift in the tone.

Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?

It comes in snatches, dim then keen, the mute, and yet there is no breeze. the best synonym to replace the underlined word would be: a. dumb c. sharp b. soft d. dull