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Of Revenge by Francis Bacon
In the context of this passage, why do people do bad things? Are these things done purposefully or as a consequence of another motivation?
Cite evidence from the text. (also from: other literature, art, or history)

Two Ways of Seeing a River
Discussion Questions
What do you suppose Twain means by the language of the river? Why do you think he refers to a “language” in the river instead stating more directly that he learned crucial things about navigating the river?
What do you think of Twain’s assertion that all of the “grace, the beauty and poetry” had gone out of the river once he learned its language? What does this tell us about this “language”?
Of course, the river did not literally “turn to blood”. What does Twain mean by this and why do you think he used this expression?
What is your response to the long description Twain renders in the opening paragraph? What is your guess as to the effect he wanted to create thereby on his readers? Why do you think Twain uses these long sentences?
Google search a Romantic nineteenth century nature painting. Do you think Twain may have had such paintings in mind as he described the river? Explain why you think this is or is not the case.
Twain refers to being “bewitched”. Look up this word and state the sense in which you think he means to use the term here.
Look up “rapture”. How do you think Twain meant to use this word?
All of the second long paragraph, beginning with, “I stood like one bewitched” is about a shift in the narrator’s perspective of the river. Is there any hint in the description as to what this change was?
Explain the differences in the river’s “language” as it speaks to the narrator in this paragraph? What kind of information does the river seem to offer now? It is the same river, but what has changed? Why does Twain break into long sentences here as he does in the opening paragraph?
Twain compares this scientific, practical use of the river to the kind of information a doctor might seek to discover about his patient. In the final paragraph, Twain mentions a “break” in one’s cheek and how a doctor might see the break. Where is a “break” mentioned earlier in the description? How does the experienced pilot see this break differently from the inexperienced pilot? How is this like what a doctor might see versus what other people might see in human skin?
Twain refers to “hidden decay” in the final stanza. What things along the river are like “decay”? What do you think of this comparison?
Why might the doctor referred to in the final stanza comment on a human’s condition “all to himself”? Why do you think Twain mentions this solitary perception that doctors may have?

To an Inconstant One
by Sir Robert Ayton
I loved thee once; I’ll love no more —
Thine be the grief as is the blame;
Thou art not what thou wast before,
What reason I should be the same?
(5) He that can love unloved again,
Hath better store of love than brain:
God send me love my debts to pay,
While unthrifts fool their love away!
Nothing could have my love o’erthrown
(10) If thou hadst still continued mine;
Yea, if thou hadst remained thy own,
I might perchance have yet been thine.
But thou thy freedom didst recall
That it thou might elsewhere enthral:
(15) And then how could I but disdain
A captive’s captive to remain?
When new desires had conquered thee
And changed the object of thy will,
It had been lethargy in me,
(20) Not constancy, to love thee still.
Yea, it had been a sin to go
And prostitute affection so:
Since we are taught no prayers to say
To such as must to others pray.
(25) Yet do thou glory in thy choice—
Thy choice of his good fortune boast;
I’ll neither grieve nor yet rejoice
To see him gain what I have lost:
The height of my disdain shall be
(30) To laugh at him, to blush for thee;
To love thee still, but go no more
A-begging at a beggar’s door.
1) The question posed by the speaker in line 4 uses logic based on the idea of
a) equal opportunity
b) mutual agreement
c) poetic justice
d) pragmatic action
e) repeated efforts
2) Line 5 (“He that can love unloved again”) describes a person who
a) is attracted to others who have suffered loss in love
b) is fickle and changeable when it comes to love
c) is on the rebound and ready to love someone new
d) has feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness
e) pursues someone who no longer returns his love
3) Line 6 (“Hath better…than brain”) is best interpreted to mean
a) enjoying a relationship of sheer and abiding love
b) having a greater supply of love than intelligence
c) possessing both knowledge and practical skill
d) recalling romantic memories with pure joy
e) valuing romance more than academic pursuits
4) In lines 11-12 (“Yea, if thou hadst…yet been thine”), the speaker tells his love that he might still be hers if she had
a) been less sociable
b) been more loving and kind
c) not been so ambiguous
d) not been so irascible
e) remained true to herself
5) Which best describes the purpose of the second stanza?
a) It contrasts the essential nature of solitude and friendship.
b) It describes the importance of acknowledging the role of fate.
c) It explores the role of both truth and fiction in relationships.
d) It implies a relationship between independence and ownership.
e) It reinforces the distinction between romantic and platonic love.
6) In lines 17 and 18 (“When new desires…thy will”), the speaker uses
a) anachronism
b) euphemism
c) hyperbole
d) metaphor
e) personification
7) Which best describes the speaker’s attitude toward his situation in the final stanza?
a) He is accepting.
b) He is consumed with rage.
c) He is defiantly arrogant.
d) He is regretful.
e) He is unaffected.
8) In the final stanza, the speaker asserts his plan to
a)  celebrate his lover in her choice of a new partner
b) establish distance and detachment from his lover and her suitor
c) fight tirelessly for his lover’s return to his arms
d) resist falling into complete despair over the loss of his lover’s affection
e) smear his lover and her new love by criticizing their faults publicly

1 2 3 4 5 1. PART A: Which statement best expresses the central idea of the text? O A Studies on the human brain prove that love and lust produce the same chemicals in the brain, proving that they are essentially the same feeling. O B Love at first sight is something that occurs more often in books and on television, rather than in our real lives. O C Everyone is capable of experiencing love at first sight if they permit themselves to connect with someone on a deeper level. O D True love can develop within a short period of time for some people if they develop a sudden and deep connection with each other.

Which of the following is the best definition of theme in children’s literature?
?      The story’s location in time and place
?      The sequence of events in the story
?      The underlying idea that ties the plot, characters, and setting together
?      The resolution of the conflict

Near the beginning of the excerpt from the Third Book, Smith writes: “Such actions have ever since the world’s beginning been subject to such accidents, and everything of worth is found full of difficulties, but nothing [is] so difficult as to establish a commonwealth so far remote from men and means and where men’s minds are so untoward as neither do well themselves nor suffer others.” What is he talking about? What assumptions is an observation like that based on? Can you think of modern intercultural misunderstandings that parallel the problem that Smith believes he is facing here?
This is from John Smith’s Third Book, Chapter 2, 7th Chapter.
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/smith-chapter-2-book-3-of-the-generall-historie-of-virginia-new-england-and-the-summer-isles-by-john-1624/

In your
Norton
text, please read pages 897-906 and complete the questions on page 906 1-4. Remember to follow MLA guidelines, use complete sentences and answer the question completely by providing textual evidence from the reading to support your answers (must have direct quote or paraphrase with page number in parentheses in at least two of your responses). One sentence answers are not enough to thoroughly answer these questions.
1. How does Kendell Hardison’s BEGINNING set the mood for the essay? What VIVID DETAILS establish that mood?
2. Hardison alternates between telling a story about a brush with dangerously low blood sugar and providing facts about diabetes. What does the medical information she provides about how the body uses sugar and the role of insulin in regulating blood sugar contribute to the essay? Why is this information necessary for understanding Hardison’s memoir? Hardison mentions that she has had many brushes with low blood sugar over the course of her life. Why do you think she chose to recount this particular incident? Why was this incident so SIGNIFICANT to her? What do you think she wants the reader to take away from her story?
3. Hardison’s essay deals with the CAUSES AND EFFECTS of low blood sugar. Is Hardison’s explanation of these causes and effects sufficient? Why or why not?
Hardison / The Show Must Go On 897 KENDELL HARDISON is majoring in English with a licensure in secondary English education at Freed Hardeman University. She plans to teach high school English when she graduates. She was in Professor Loren Warf’s writing class when she wrote this essay, which was nominated for the 2020 Norton Writer’s Prize. The stage buzzed with last-minute preparations, but the oversized closet that masqueraded as the school theater’s backstage area was momentarily quiet. The costume rack was already half-empty, and the owners of the shabby 1940s clothing that had once weighed it down were busy upstairs, caking on one last layer of stage makeup. My own costume, a matronly blouse, skirt, and shawl, was already on. I was backstage for another purpose. Between the clothing rack, the prop table, and the small mob of actors that would soon have to crowd into the claustrophobic space, there was little room remaining for any extra items. We all had strict instructions not to bring in anything that wasn’t absolutely necessary. That meant no electronic devices, no purses, and no backpacks. Except for mine. The bright pink butterfly bag looked utterly out of place amid the solemn costumes and was an unintentional piece of irony; in an hour’s time, we’d be performing I Never Saw Another Butterfly, and here was one hiding just out of sight. The bag was full of supplies: four clear juice boxes, a half-empty box of Raisinets, and my continuous glucose monitor. Food wasn’t supposed to be
Chapter 66 MEMOIRS Hardison / The Show Must Go On 898 backstage any more than personal belongings were, but I had gotten special permission. No one wanted the type I diabetic to be stuck backstage without medical supplies, which was why I was stashing my bag of loot on the wide sill of one of the backstage windows. With high blood sugar, there is a wide safety zone, so although I was going overboard, and I knew it. Two juice boxes were normally more than sufficient for eight hours, much less the three hours I would spend here. This was just a precaution, born of my need to make sure that the last play in my senior year of high school would go perfectly. Buzz, buzz, buzz. Apparently, it was a precaution I would be digging into sooner than I thought. The monitor buzzed again from my bag. My blood sugar had slipped below 80, the minimum healthy number. I would have to act to bring it back up. I had just eaten supper. It should have been rising, not dropping. But there was no time to worry about it. The doors would be opening for the audience in less than ten minutes, so I just shook a handful of the Raisinets into my hand before heading out to the stage to wait for the pre-play pep talk. According to the number on that screen, my blood sugar had dropped again. Everyone eats, and when they do, their bodies work hard to turn the carbohydrates in their food into usable energy, a process that depends heavily on the pancreas and one of the hormones it produces, called insulin, that breaks carbohydrates down into sugars. Healthy bodies usually have a blood sugar range of 80 to 120. In the body of a type I diabetic, however, the pancreas has failed, and no more insulin is being produced. Sugar levels in the blood, often colloquially shortened to “blood sugar,” rise steadily. At first, this results only in thirst and mild discomfort. If the process continues, however, it results in catatonia, organ failure, and death. Thankfully, these days insulin can be manufactured and injected into the bloodstream via shots. Unfortunately, our conscious brains aren’t as good as our subconscious at calculating what our bodies need. Underestimating how much insulin is needed leads to high blood sugar levels; overestimating it leads to low blood sugar levels. Low blood sugar quickly produces shakiness, irritability, fatigue, loss of emotional control, and decision made, I drank the juice box quickly and slipped my monitor back into my bag before beginning the careful process of weaving my way through the other actors. They scooched back from their places on the floor to make room as I headed toward the two massive steps that led up to the main stage. The voices of the onstage actors could be heard easily through the door. The moment my cue came, I was stepping from the gloom of the backstage into the bright heat of the spotlights.
My lines went off without a hitch, and my growing collection of empty juice boxes slid into the back of my mind. Unfortunately, my bag was officially out of treats. They came quickly back to the forefront when the lights went dark, and I slipped back through the door and into the sanctuary of the backstage. The other actors were all looking at my bag. A light was glowing through it, and I could hear the tell-tale buzz of an angry glucose monitor. My blood sugar had dipped further into the danger zone, and I only had one juice box left with which to treat it. Unfortunately, there was no way to get to it without first parading in front of the entire audience. Doing it would also take time, and I wasn’t sure there was enough of it to get my snacks and return before my next cue. If at all possible, I didn’t want to risk it. Fortunately, I wasn’t in this alone. It was time to appeal to authority. I once again wound my way toward the steps, but this time, I had no intention of going up them. Instead, I approached the stage manager, perched on her stool beside the top step. “I’ve got a problem,” I whispered, and I laid out the situation in a quick, hushed voice. She was just a student-a younger one than me, even-but she had a radio with her for emergencies; I had some thought that she could use it to tell the director, who could grab the food and devise some way to sneak it up to the front. Instead, the stage manager took it upon herself. “I’ve got it,” she promised. “I’ll make a run for it the next time the lights go down.” That could work. I retreated back to my bag and my glucose monitor. My blood sugar was holding steady, but steady at an unacceptable number. The lights went off. The stage manager shot out of the door.
In an emergency, however, anything is better than nothing. The lights came back on. She would have to wait for the scene to end before making her way back. I sank back onto the window ledge, trying to force back the panic. It was a short scene. I could wait. The other actors looked concerned, but I waved them off. It wouldn’t be long now. Darkness fell again. I stared at the door, desperately willing it to open. It did. The stage manager slipped back in. Empty handed. I was at her side in an instant. “What happened?” I demanded as softly as I could. “Could you not find it? It’s on the left side if you’re facing the door-” She just shook her head. “I couldn’t even get in,” she whispered. “Both of the doors to the office are locked.” Which meant-which meant I needed to- My head was spinning. At that point, I could barely stand up straight, let alone think reasonably. The other actors had not been entirely unaware of the little drama. The great sugar hunt immediately began. The cast turned out their tickets for stray pieces of chocolate, gum, and mints. None of it was ideal, but all of it had at least a few carbs’ worth of precious sugar, so I gulped down with hurried thanks. None of it tasted like much of anything. My tongue was beginning to feel strangely numb. And none of that mattered because it was time for me to go on stage. I swayed a little as I tried to mount the awkwardly large stairs, and hands shot up to provide me with an impromptu railing. I made it up in one piece and swung open the door.
At the bottom, a prize awaited in the arms of one my fellow cast members: a half-empty bottle of soda scavenged from an audience member during the scene change. I had no idea who had been drinking from that bottle before me. I could not have cared less. I emptied the bottle in seconds, down to the last drop. My voice shook when I spoke. Tears welled up in my eyes and threatened to fall. Neither reaction was intentional, but my blood sugar had dipped into the 30s, and there was no longer any hope of holding it back. If my monologue had been about anything other than my character’s dead daughter, it would have been a disaster. As it was, it was the most emotionally successful performance of the monologue that I ever put on. When the lights went blessedly dark and took their scorching heat with them, I stumbled backstage, where waiting arms once again helped me with the stairs. Eating is not about pleasure. It is not about eating. It is about watching that little number on your screen and not stopping until it’s wherever it needs to be, whatever that might take. That half-empty bottle of soda finally accomplished something none of the other snacks had. My blood sugar went up. What had gone wrong remained a mystery, but with my blood sugar back up, it didn’t matter. “Thank you,” I whispered to the other cast members. “Thank you, thank you, thank you.” All of their efforts had paid off at last. By the time we were all slipping back onstage for the full-cast final bow, my blood sugar was back in the range it was supposed to be in and, by all indications, holding steady. I was able to take my place at the end of the stage and wait with full confidence for my moment to step onward and recite my final lines. The play ended in tragedy: the protagonist was dead, and she was left alone. But the final lines were not about grief; each of us stepped forward in ghostly form to pride, hope, a hope the character took to heart as a reason to keep going.
Chapter 66 MEMOIRS 906 I had made it as well. My blood sugar had flirted with some dangerous lines, but thanks to the others, the backstage drama had been safely resolved while the play had gone on successfully from the beginning to the end when we stepped forward to take our bows

O An important test taking technique is to: a. Use stress management techniques if you are feeling nervous. b. Focus only on the test and finish
fast. c. Ignore any tension you are feeling. d. Stay with a question until you can answer it.

Using your knowledge of “Was It a Dream?”, match the event with its part of the plot.
Exposition A) We learn that the main character was madly in love.
Rising action B) The reader is left to wonder what was real and what was a dream.
Climax C) The main character spends the night in the cemetery.
Falling action D) The main character reads the true inscription on his lover’s tombstone.
Resolution E) The main character falls unconscious on the grave.
Question 1 (Not Answered)

1) What is the name of the 2 people who became Dog Man? Knight and Greathe Dog
2) What is Dog Mans Super Hero Name? Knight
3) Who wrote Dog Man? Do key
4) What is the rating of the Dog Man Movie? Kq
5) What is the name of Petey’s clone?
6) What is Petey’s Robots name?