WRITING TASK Imagine that like Lucy, you find a portal from the real world into an imaginary one. Write a vivid description of your experience as you travel through the portal to the imaginary world on the other side. Your description should use all the senses.

I was traveling fast through the portal. I could barely breathe, the air was so thin. I could smell the rotting smell of dead grass and I could see the hombre of blues and purples. The velocity of speed sounded like howling wind on a cold night. I felt for something to grab on to, but I only felt the absence of a lever or a house. I was scared for my life. I fell to the ground, not knowing where I was, I called for someone to help.

Nobody answered.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

in night, why are wiesel and his father evacuated from the auschwitz concentration camp? a massive escape makes the nazis question the security of auschwitz. they are assigned to work as laborers in a factory at another camp, buna. hitler has ordered that all remaining jews be relocated within german borders. the german army needs the camp guards to go to the battle front for a last-chance defense.