"Last Chance Final English 9 W3 and W5: Writing Narratives
Directions: Prompt: In the space below, write two paragraphs in which you show the techniques
of dialogue and show don't tell After writing, go through and make quality changes to improve
the look and sound of your writing (W3 and W5).
For the topic of your narrative, you should focus on something that really happened to you it
can be a story from your childhood or you telling me about what you did over the weekend. Just
make sure to include those storytelling elements (W3) and to editrevise (W5). Remember when
you edit, look for things like capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. For revising, read your
story out loud and change up parts that sound awkward or weird.

Which of the following questions could you ask in a discussion on vacation destinations to establish common ground?

Read the excerpt from julius caesar, act 1, scene 1. marullus. wherefore rejoice? what conquest brings he home? what tributaries follow him to rome to grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless35 things! o, you hard hearts, you cruel men of rome, knew you not pompey? many a time and oft have you climbed up to walls and battlements, to towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat40 the livelong day, with patient expectation, to see great pompey pass the streets of rome. which summary of the passage is the best? marullus asks a lot of questions, such as, “why celebrate? what has caesar done? who is following him to rome? don’t you remember pompey? ” then he says that everyone is cruel because they do not remember pompey. they forget how they praised him and would climb to the highest places, carrying their children, just to catch a glimpse of him. marullus regrets that the people are celebrating caesar and is insulted that they forgot how they used to praise pompey. marullus thinks that the people should celebrate caesar the way they used to celebrate pompey, and that they should be in awe of caesar’s greatness. marullus remembers how the people climbed walls, battlements, towers, windows, and even chimney tops to see the great pompey.

In hard times by charles dickens, the scene in which the characters discuss the depiction of horses on wallpaper and flowers on carpets is the author’s way of showing the absurdity of