In this unit activity, you will analyze aspects of the medieval English stories The Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. You will also read George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language,” analyze it, and express your own views on how language usage changes over time.

Read this section: “for us girls, that doorway was like a magical entrance to our own special world. as we skipped through, we cast off our head scarves and ran helter-skelter up the steps.” based on malala’s description of her school, we can infer that the setting gives the feeling a) vulnerability b) excitement c) happiness d) freedom

Which two lines in this excerpt from elizabeth bishops the fish suggests that the speaker respects the fish

Aman lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. in the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.