1. What are 2-3 concepts from this unit and what did you learn about them? You must use your own definitions. 2. Choose 2 stories/readings/excerpts that you read in the unit. Summarize each story/reading/excerpt in a 5 sentence paragraph. In addition, if you liked the story write 2-3 sentences persuading someone else to read it. If you did not like it, write a 2-3 sentence argument about why it should not be in the curriculum.

Explain the historical and literary significance of mao zedong’s speech “serve the people.”

In me thou seest the twilight of such day, as after sunset fadeth in the west, which by and by black night doth take away, death's second self that seals up all in rest. —"sonnet 73," william shakespeare read the second quatrain of “sonnet 73,” and then answer the questions. what is the best paraphrase of these lines? what is the central idea of these lines?

Which two lines in this sonnet use symbolism to describe old age? sonnet 2 by william shakespeare when forty winters shall besiege thy brow, and dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, will be a totter'd weed of small worth held: then being asked, where all thy beauty lies, where all the treasure of thy lusty days; to say, within thine own deep sunken eyes, were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. how much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use, if thou couldst answer 'this fair child of mine shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,' proving his beauty by succession thine! this were to be new made when thou art old, and see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.