WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST AND 50 POINTS! 1. What is a "stave," and what is the significance of the novel being sectioned into four different staves?
2. Why does the narrator make such a point of Marley’s being dead?
3. Why doesn’t the weather affect Scrooge?
4. How is Scrooge’s nephew different from Scrooge?
5. What do the “portly gentlemen” who come in after Scrooge’s nephew leave want?
6. How does the knocker change?
7. Why does Scrooge like the darkness? (just after the incident with the knocker)
8. What has Marley’s ghost been doing since his death?
9. What is the warning that Marley gives Scrooge?
10. Why are the phantoms (three paragraphs from the end of the stave) upset?
11. What was the strangest thing about the way the spirit looked? (sentence beginning “but the
strangest thing…)
12. What is Scrooge’s initial attitude toward the spirit?
13. What is different about Scrooge when he says “Remember it? I could walk it with a blindfold?”
14. Who is Scrooge talking about when he says “Poor boy!”
15. What does it tell us about Scrooge when Dickens observes “a rapidity of transition very
foreign to his usual character.”?
16. When Fan comes to pick Scrooge up, we learn a reason why Scrooge may have turned out
the way he did. What is this reason?
17. What kind of people are the Fezziwigs?
18. Who is Belle and why was she important to Scrooge?
19. Why does Scrooge say “Remove me.” (five paragraphs from the end of the stave)
20. How does Scrooge try to "extinguish the light"? Does he succeed? What is the light a
symbol of?

Read the following passage: sari couldn't believe her bad luck. she had locked her keys in the car. to add fuel to the fire, her cell phone was in the locked car, and she was late for a very important meeting. she knocked on her neighbor's door so that she could ask to use his phone, but he was not not home. what was she to do? what role does the idiom in the passage serve? a. it shows that sari has incredibly bad luck when it comes to work. b. it shows that sari's neighbor was not home either. c. it shows that sari locked her keys in the car. d. it shows that sari's situation was worse than it seemed at first.

How does loma cervantes celebrate her culture in “freeway 280”? ?

Adapt the speech you delivered in lesson 2 to an audience of professionals, teachers, and parents. the audience expects a more formal delivery. your listeners also expect you to use media such as images and audio to make your speech more convincing and easier to understand. your assignment should include the following elements: -at least four sources to back up your ideas -media elements to illustrate your ideas -changes to both the style and content of the speech to make it more appropriate to the audience -citations that follow mla guidelines as you revise your presentation, research and cite at least four sources. at least two of these sources must provide supporting evidence, such as charts and graphs or quotes from newspapers or other credible sources. the other two sources can provide material to grab the audience's attention — for example, photos that your audience visualize what you're talking about or music that sets the mood. you can also create original images, but these will not count as sources. here are some types of media that you may use to either show evidence or move the audience: quotes tables, charts, and graphs images video audio (including music) mix up the types of media you use so that no medium is used more than twice. take care that all your sources contribute to your speech in an obvious way. they should either back up what you're saying or make your ideas easier for your audience to understand logically or emotionally. avoid visual aids that are off topic or confusing. ask yourself these questions as you revise: am i still fulfilling the requirements of the speech i gave in lesson 2? is my speech still about a theme in franklin roosevelt's four freedoms speech? do i connect that theme to my own life and to a current issue? are my sources credible and relevant? will they convince an audience of parents, teachers, and professionals? do my media elements enhance my speech? do they set the mood, explain something difficult, or offer convincing proof? do i avoid media elements that are more distracting than ? did i cite my sources according to mla guidelines? did i check my works-cited page against sample works-cited pages to make sure it's correct?