Emma is reading about a marching band. "You're off your marks!" shouted Ms. Stemson. "Everybody go back to the beginning and practice the whole section again." This was the final straw for the drumline. "No way!" yelled Marcus, who grabbed his drumsticks and ran off the field. Emma thinks these lines are an example of rising action. She is a. Incorrect, because the lines give background information. b. Incorrect, because the lines wrap up the story. c. Correct, because the lines introduce conflict. d. Correct, because the lines include movement.

Now you will do a special kind of problem. you will use the blue boxes below to put events of the story "the baby-sitter" in correct order. each blue box has seven sentences inside it. click the first blue box until you see the first thing that happened in the story. then go on to the next box and the next thing that happened. the last thing that happened should be in the last box. you may need to look back at the story to you remember. if you change your mind at any time while you are working the problem, you can return to a box and click to find a different sentence. when you are all finished, you will be able to read down the list of sentences and see all seven events from the story in the right order. mary jo began to read the alphabet book. mary jo couldn't move. mother asked mary jo to baby-sit. jimmy was very quiet. he had fallen asleep. jimmy to read the book. mother said, "you are a very good baby-sitter." mother picked up sleeping jimmy.

"ten from the sea to the sand he walks, to look in the soil, but not in the box''!

How does tiresias prophecy affect the plot of the story ?