Write a journal entry in the submission box (below). What are your reactions to the video/transcript of "The Healing Power of Reading?" How did you feel about Patrick's situation? Should the author have left the school to go back to Harvard or should she have stayed to continue to help students like Patrick?

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. which choice best describes the conflict in this poem? the winds are rocking the boat. a man is thrown into the sea. a woman doesn’t want to let go of her dead lover. someone is crying in the darkness.

Why is it important to be aware of you audience's interests? a. so that you can teach them new information thy didn't know b. so that you can use opposite ideas in order to shock them c. so that you can use the most effective strategy to persuade them d. so that you can pretend to like the same things and get them to trust you

From the earth is precious, what is the best definition for the word “exempt”? question 3 options: a) none of these are correct b) a restraint forcing one to stay in place c) a strategy to leave a place or location d) free or excepted from something expected of others