Directions: Choose THREE of the essay topics below, and write a 1-2 paragraph (5-10 sentences) answer for each. Spelling and grammar will be considered in the final grade. Discuss the character traits that allow Lina, Jonas and Andrius to ultimately survive. How were these characters similar to each other? How were they different. Which character did you connect with the most?
Using the phrase, “This story is about…” give a 5 sentence review to describe Between Shades of Gray.
Have you ever read a novel, or play, about genocide before? How did that text compare to this one?
The writer seems to take for granted that the readers of her book do not know a lot about Lithuanian culture in the 1940s. Where did the novel not give enough details?
If you were to continue this novel, pre-Epilogue, what would you include? Would you have kept the same ending as the writer?

Which revision of this sentence best uses direct characterization?

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.

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