The story “Stray” by Cynthia Rylant is a short story about , , and . The main character, , [tell what the main character does or wants here]. What I really loved about this story was. The main conflict in the story is that is unhappy with because . We see this starting to take place as the tension rises – from the beginning of the story when [what starts the tension – what does Doris do in the beginning?]. In the middle of the story, the climax (or the most emotional part of the story) is when . This is a huge turning point of the story because [who does what]. The falling action shows us that is not so bad, because he . The resolution of the story is when . In conclusion, the story “Stray” by Cynthia Rylant is a short story about how works out a problem with about . The part of the story that hooked me in the beginning was , and my favorite part of the story was when .

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)

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."