UNIT 4 LAB Why a Good Book Is a Secret Door (LINK IN COMMENTS)

- Barnett shares a story at the beginning of his talk about being a camp counselor.

- Describe the setting of his story. How might his story have been different if the setting was the early morning at a pet store or a zoo?

- Explain how the information discussed in the unit section, ‘The Power of a Place,’ relates to the people Barnett mentions who travel to Dublin and London to see settings of famous novels.

- Describe the setting from the Narnia books and what it prompted Barnett to do as a child. Next, describe a setting from a book you have read and why it is powerful or memorable to you.

- Barnett vividly describes the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a shop/tutoring center he ran in Los Angeles. Explain how this store served as a kind of living example of a setting.

- Why do you think the

a, overstatement is the answer

english novelist and poet, the eldest of the three brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of english literature.

she enlisted in school at roe head in january 1831, aged 14 years. she left the year after to teach her sisters, emily and anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. in 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of currer, ellis and acton bell. her first novel the professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel jane eyre was published in 1847. the sisters admitted to their bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in london literary circles.

brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. she became pregnant shortly after her marriage in june 1854 but died on 31 march 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

explanation:

her eyes water as she let her go

her mothers hand goes limp

face white and pale

lips blue and stale

she is gone

sadness fills her body

she collapses to her knees

as her mothers disease leaves the girl alone