How would i go about answering this ? What areas would i need to cover?Can you plan your own allegory (not an alligator...that would be odd)? It should be a plan - not a completed version - and must include a message about human behaviour.

e.g. The Tortoise and the Hare - aspect of human behaviour = our lack of patience and arrogance.

Try to include:

Pathetic fallacy

Personification

Juxtaposition

If in doubt, look them up.

Which sentence uses a verb that agrees with its subject? A. Were they organizing the meeting at the courthouse? B. Has the items from the catalogue arrived yet? C. Does she and her cousin like to go exploring in the woods? D. Is the Grossman triplets identical?

Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, by James Cross Giblin. The hieroglyphic passage took the longest to translate, partly because the hieroglyphs were the least understood of the three languages, and partly because so much of the text was missing. Champollion succeeded in deciphering a large part of the passage, but the meaning of many hieroglyphs was still unknown when he did his major work in the 1820s. Which line from the excerpt best states the central idea? The hieroglyphic passage presented the biggest challenge of the three inscriptions. Most of Champollion’s major work was accomplished in the 1820s. Champollion’s persistence helped him decipher a large part of the hieroglyphic passage. Hieroglyphs were the least understood because scholars had misinterpreted their meaning.

SIIS SULT1. You have just read a poignant blog post. Will you still be thinking about it


tomorrow, or will you forget it immediately? Explain.

Which word in the sentence is a direct object? Raheem fed a goat at the petting zoo.









A.
goat







B.
zoo







C.
petting

Explain how slavery is personified, and explain how this shows the effects of slavery.

Identify one type of rhetorical devices used in paragraph and what sentence is it?So then they thought they could smear me, and the best way to do that was to call me a communist. And you know, too, what that meant. Those were dreaded words in those days, and I want to tell you also that I was hounded by the government agencies in America, and there was never one ounce of proof that I was a communist. But they were mad. They were mad because I told the truth. And the truth was that all I wanted was a cup of coffee. But I wanted that cup of coffee where I wanted to drink it, and I had the money to pay for it, so why shouldn’t I have it where I wanted it?