Discuss what it means that “there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.” Discuss as a group examples from your own lives of events that may have changed who you have become if they had happened differently. One group member should be willing to share, but you do not have to write the events down

Which statement best explains how the setting affects the meaning of the story? a. the water and wave motif conveys the queasy feeling the narrator has when walking alone at night. b. the firefly light conveys a feeling of nostalgia for long summer evenings spent with family. c. the phrase whispering and murmurs" suggests that the main character has fits of madness. d. the comparison of the street to a graveyard suggests that something is terribly wrong with society.

Mary is reading a book that has 135 pages. she can read 18 pages in an hour. if she takes h hours to finish reading the book, the equation that can be used to find the value of h is

When previewing the author's background you learned that she is a poet of place. how did this knowledge affect your reading of the poem?