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In the poem “A Letter to My Mom That She Will Never Read” by Ocean Vuong. What does the deer and monarch butterflies symbolize?
2nd question: Why do Ocean and his mother dress up to go to the mall. And what does this say about Ocean’s mother’s character?
3rd question: Why does Ocean’s mother ask him if she looks “like a real American?”
4th question: out of the Blue Moon why does Ocean’s mother tell him that she isn’t “a monster” but “a mother”.

Figurative Language
“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
Directions: complete the chart by filling in all of the empty boxes.
Quote from Text
Figurative Language
Meaning/Significance
To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o’clock of a misty evening in
November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do.
irony
… he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.
It’s so cold outside that he can see his own breath, similar to smoke from a cigar.
And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.
metaphor
The neighborhood was like a graveyard with the people “entombed” inside watching their flickering light televisions like zombies.
Sudden gray phantoms seemed to manifest upon inner room walls where a curtain was still undrawn against the night, or there were whisperings and murmurs where a window in a tomblike building was still open.
imagery
There was a good crystal frost in the air; it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside; you could feel the cold light going on and off, all the branches filled with invisible snow.
He listened to the faint push of his soft shoes through autumn leaves with satisfaction, and whistled a cold quiet whistle between his teeth, occasionally picking up a leaf as he passed, examining its skeletal pattern in the infrequent lamplights as he went on, smelling its rusty smell.
You can hear the sound of Mead’s shoes shuffling through the leaves and the sound of him whistling. He picks up a leaf and smells it. This passage appeals to many senses to show Mead is one with nature and it help readers feel like they are outside on a chilly November night.
The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in mid-country.
He stumbled over a particularly uneven section of sidewalk. The cement was vanishing under flowers and grass.
imagery
During the day it was a thunderous surge of cars, the gas stations open, a great insect rustling and a ceaseless jockeying for position as the scarab beetles.
The cars are scurrying through life like beetles. People are rushing here and there not absorbing the life around them.
He stood entranced, not unlike a night moth, stunned by the illumination, and then drawn toward it.
“Your name?” Said the police car in a metallic whisper.
personification
The light held him fixed like a museum specimen.
He put his hand to the door and peered into the back seat, which was a little cell, a little black jail with bars. It smelled of riveted steel. It smelled of harsh antiseptic; it smelled too clean and hard and metallic. There was nothing soft there.
The car feels sterile and uncomfortable. It is a mini-prison. You can smell steel and antiseptic. The car represents the coldness of humanity and reinforces the the theme of dehumanization in the story.
They passed one house on one street a moment later, one house in an entire city of houses that were dark, but this one particular house had all of its electric lights brightly lit, every window a loud yellow illumination, square and warm in the cool darkness.
symbolism
The car moved down the empty river-bed streets and off away, leaving the empty streets with the empty side-walks, and no sound and no motion all the rest of the chill November night.
repetition

in huckleberry fin by mark twain (chapter 19)
As the chapter opens, How does Twain make a sense of peaceful solitude?
What inferences can you draw about Huck’s motivation to assist the two men (later known as the king and the duke) who are being chased? According to the men, why are they being chased?
Huck and Jim have been extremely vigilant about concealing Jim from other people. What inferences can you draw about why Huck is not concerned about bringing the two men into contact with Jim?
What methods of indirect characterization does Twain initially use to reveal the personalities of the two men?

I-Robot by Isaac Asimov Chapter 5- Liar 1. How was Herbie? 2. Why did Herbie like reading the romance novels? 3. How did the 3 laws affect Herbie’s behavior? 4. Describe the downfall of Herbie, what was his dilemma? Chapter 6- Little Lost Robot 1. Who was Nestor 10? 2. How and why did Nestor 10 get “lost”? 3. What was so special about the 12 NS-2’s on the asteroid (including Nestor 10)? 4. Why was the first law “modified” and how? 5. How was Nestor 10 found? 6. What was Nestor 10’s reaction when he was discovered? Chapter 7- Escape 1. Who is The Brain? 2. What happened to Mike Donovan and Greg Powell? 3. How was the first law overcome/broken? Chapter 8- Evidence 1. Who is Stephen Byerley? 2. Why is Dr. Calvin, Dr. Lanning, and Francis Quinn so interested in him? 3. What implications could this mean for humans? Chapter 9- The Evitable Conflict 1. What was the evitable conflict? 2. Why was it “evitable”?

from
Five Weeks in a Balloon
by Jules Verne
published by George Rutledge and Sons, 1876
1        Dr. Ferguson had a friend – not another self, indeed, an alter ego, for friendship could not exist between two beings exactly alike.
2        But, if they possessed different qualities, aptitudes, and temperaments, Richard Kennedy and Samuel Ferguson lived with one and the same heart, and that gave them no great trouble. In fact, quite the reverse….
3        The acquaintanceship of these two friends had been formed in India, when they belonged to the same regiment. While Richard would be out in pursuit of the tiger and the elephant, Samuel would be in search of plants and insects. Each could call himself expert in his own province, and more than one rare botanical1 specimen, that to science was as great a victory won as the conquest of a pair of ivory tusks, became the doctor’s booty.
4        Since their return to England they had been frequently separated by the doctor’s distance expeditions; but, on his return, the latter never failed to go, not to ASK for hospitality, but to bestow some weeks of his presence at the home of his crony Richard.
5        The Scot talked of the past; the doctor busily prepared for the future. The one looked back, the other forward. Hence, a restless spirit personified in Ferguson; perfect calmness typified in Kennedy – such was the contrast.
6        After his journey to the Thibet, the doctor had remained nearly two years without hinting at new explorations; and Richard, supposing that his friend’s instinct for travel and thirst for adventure had at length died out, was perfect enchanted. They would have ended badly, some day or other, he thought to himself; no matter what experience one has with men, one does not travel always with impunity2 among cannibals and wild beasts. So, Kennedy besought the doctor to tie up his bark for life, having done enough for science, and too much for the gratitude of men.
7        The doctor contented himself with making no reply to this. He remained absorbed in his own reflections, giving himself up to secret calculations, passing his nights among heaps of figures, and making experiments with the strangest-looking machinery, inexplicable to everybody but himself. It could readily be guessed, though, that some great thought was fermenting3 in his brain.
8        “What can he have been planning?” wondered Kennedy, when, in the month of January, his friend quitted him to return to London.
9        He found out one morning when he looked into the Daily Telegraph.
10       “Merciful Heaven!” he exclaimed, “the lunatic! the madman! Cross Africa in a balloon! Nothing that was wanted to cap the climax! That’s what he’s been bothering his wits about these two years past!”
11       …On that very evening, Kennedy, half alarmed, and half exasperated, took the train for London, where he arrived next morning.
12       Three-quarters of an hour later a cab deposited him at the door of the doctor’s modest dwelling, in Soho Square, Greek Street. Forthwith he bounded up the steps and announced his arrival with five good, hearty, sounding raps at the door.
13       Ferguson opened, in person.
14       “Richard! You here?” he exclaimed, but with no great expression of surprise, after all.
15       “Richard himself!” was the response. . . .
16       “And what have you come to town for?”
17       “To prevent the greatest piece of folly that ever was conceived.”
18       “Folly!” said the doctor.
19       “Is what this paper says, the truth?” rejoined Kennedy, holding out the copy of the Daily Telegraph mentioned above.
20       “Ah! That’s what you mean, is it? These newspapers are great tattlers! But, sit down, my dear Richard.”
21       “No, I won’t sit down! – Then, you really intend to attempt this journey?”
22       “Most certainly! All my preparations are getting along finely, and I – ”
23       “Where are your traps? Let me have a chance at them! I’ll make them fly! I’ll put your preparations in fine order?” And so saying, the gallant Scot gave way to a genuine explosion of wrath.
24       “Come, be calm, my dear Richard!” resumed the doctor. “You’re angry at me because I did not acquaint you with my new project!”
25       “He calls this his new project!”
26       “I have been very busy,” the doctor went on, without heeding the interruption; “I have had so much to look after! But rest assured that I should not have started without writing to you.”
27       “Oh, indeed! I’m highly honored.”
28       “Because it is my intention to take you with me.”
29       Upon this, the Scotchman gave a leap that a wild goat would not have been ashamed of among his native crags.
30       “Ah! Really, then, you want them to send us both to Bedlam!”
31       “I have counted positively upon you, my dear Richard, and I have picked you out from all the rest.”
32       Kennedy stood speechless with amazement. …
33       But he made up his mind to oppose his friend’s departure by all means in his power, and so pretended to give in, at the same time keeping on the watch. As for the doctor, he went on diligently with his preparations.
1        Read this sentence from paragraph 6.
So, Kennedy besought the doctor to tie up his bark for life, having done enough for science, and too much for the gratitude of men.
A “bark” is a small boat or sailing ship. What does the author most likely mean by “to tie up his bark for life?
A        to put an end to his explorations
B        to stop traveling by boat
C        to stop his experiments on transportation
D        to attach his boat more securely to the dock
2        Read the dialogue in paragraphs 21 through 27 of the excerpt. What does the dialogue reveal about Richard Kennedy?
A        He is hurt because the doctor didn’t tell him about the plans.
B        He is outraged because he considers the trip to be dangerous.
C        He is impatient to get started on the journey.
D        He is pleased that he will be included on the trip.
3        Richard Kennedy is shocked when he reads the newspaper article about Samuel Ferguson’s plan. Which sentence from the story best supports this assertion?
A        “While Richard would be out in pursuit of the tiger and the elephant, Samuel would be in search of plants and insects.”
B        “The Scot had talked of the past; the doctor busily prepared for the future.”
C        “The doctor had remained nearly two years without hinting at new explorations….”
D        “In the month of January, his friend quitted him to return to London.”
4        What theme is revealed through the descriptions and interactions of Richard Kennedy and Samuel Ferguson?
A        True friends are willing to forgive past mistakes.
B        The best friendships are formed through difficult circumstances.
C        Friendship is more important than success.
D        Friends support each other even when they disagree.
5        The ancient Greek poem
The Odyssey
tells of the journey Odysseus makes to return to his home after the Trojan War and the many obstacles he faces and strange worlds he encounters. Based on the excerpt, how is the universal theme of the journey different in
Five Weeks in a Balloon?
A        The main character must make the journey alone without help from others.
B        The main character chooses to leave home and seek out adventure.
C        The main character does not have a home that he can return to.
D        The main character’s journey will take him to a familiar and popular place.
6        Which of the following is the best summary of the excerpt?
A        Richard Kennedy and Samuel Ferguson have long been friends. Kennedy thinks his friend has finally given up his life of adventure, but then he is shocked to discover that his friend plans to cross Africa in a balloon. Kennedy confronts Ferguson, who reveals his plan to take Kennedy along on the journey.
B        Richard Kennedy and Samuel Ferguson meet in India when both are serving in the same military regiment. While Kennedy is a great hunter, Ferguson is a scientist who takes pleasure in his study of plants. Ferguson uses his scientific knowledge to do experiments and plan a trip across Africa in a balloon.
C        Richard Kennedy and Samuel Ferguson have different qualities and personalities, but they are great friends nonetheless. While Kennedy talks of the past, Ferguson is restless and always looking to the future. Their friendship is tested when Kennedy learns that Ferguson has secretly been planning a trip across African by balloon.
D        When Richard Kennedy reads in the newspaper that his old friend Samuel Ferguson plans to cross African in a balloon, he is shocked. Exasperated, Kennedy rushes to London to discuss the situation with Ferguson. Ferguson assures Kennedy that he was going to tell him of the plan, and Kennedy’s mind is put at ease.

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What’s More Have you enjoyed the discussion in this lesson? To check your understanding on this topic after discussing it to you, answer the activity that follows. Do not hesitate to go over the discussion part if you cannot recall all the concepts. Have some fun! ACTIVITY 4. BE CRITIQUE-cal THINKER Directions: Read academically the example of a critique article of a film. After reading, answer comprehensively the guide questions indicated at the right side. Write your answers on your answer sheet. Critique for a Piece of Literature What’s the Sense of The Sixth Sense What can you say about the fitle of the critique? by Camille Anjela Curitana The Sixth Sense is often regarded as one of 2 What Merary genre is the classic thrillers in film being critiqued based on history. Produced under the introduction? the direction of M. Night Shyamalan, it tells the story of how the child psychologist Malcom 3, What additional Crowe (Bruce Willis) helps information does the the boy Cole Sear (Haley introduction provide? Joel Osment) to cope with day-day life as Cole is often ridiculed because of his claims that he sees dead people a few months after Crowe has been shot by a former patient who ends up being more depressed than ever. Determined to redeem himself from his failure with the depressed patient, Crowe does everything within his power to help Cole Sear only to encounter a shocking revelation about himself at the end of it all. Being a thriller, one would expect its plot to have a What is the thesis surprising twists and turns. Nonetheless, right from the very statement of the cribque? onset, the supposed twist of the film is already a giveaway, and this somehow defeats the very purpose of the movie. Despite Willis’ and Osment’s great acting and its ceric and 12
often depressing production design, I really do not think that The Sixth Sense should even be labelled as a thriller, for 5 Is the evaluation of the writer negalive or there is nothing to be thrilled about in the first place. positive? Provide pieces of evidevice As expected, veteran actor Bruce Willis once again delivers his part well. His often confused looks, persistent spirit, and calm, reassuring voice all fit the description of a 6. What aspect of the film typical psychologist. This is rightly complemented with does the writer evaluate Osment’s unpredictable fits. At times, Osment would look in the second like a very calm, self-assured young boy, but whenever he paragraph? would throw a fit, he would start shouting and shaking as if he were really going mad. 7. What aspect of the film Such a good acting is also packaged in a relatively does the writer evaluate dismal production design. There is no background music to in the third paragraph? much the depressing sets such as Willis’ home, which is often portrayed as dark, the small apartment where Cole Sear stayed, and even the hospital’s eerie silence. Just like 8. Based on the second any old-fashioned thriller, this silence is occasionally broken and third paragraphs, by ghostly apparitions of sort which many in the movie claim how does the writer as unreal. begin the evaluation? Nonetheless, the acting and production design are all for naught simply because of the film’s lousy plot. Right at 9. What aspect of the film the beginning of the film, the twist to happen in the end is does the writer evaluate already very obvious, and its seems that Malcom Crowe, in in the fourth paragraph? spite of his doctorate degree and intensive experience in the field of psychology, is the only one who does not have a clue about what is going on. He does not recognize the fact that 10. Based on the fourth paragraph, how does the he was already dead even after months of roaming around.; writer continue the how could he be so blind not to notice that no one else can evaluation? see and hear him save for Cole who apparently have a sixth sense? His wife has never noticed her presence; the guy that she was seeing did not notice him either, Even Cole’s mother never had a conversation with Malcolm wherein fact, it is a protocol when dealing with children that professionals report their diagnosis to the parents. Such a display of naivete is 11. How does the writer end the critique? very inconsistent with his character as a highly esteemed academic. Everything is such a giveaway, and many of the scenes violate even common sense knowledge. I am giving The Sixth Sense two out of five stars. While good acting is evident in the film, I believe that it does not possess the very purpose of a thriller, which is to thrill or surprise people. From the very beginning of the movie, the twist was already a giveaway, and this makes for a sloppy production. Source: Wyson. J.D. (2016). English for academic and professional purposes. Jucion City, Philippines: Vibal Group Inc. 13

Hi, I have written a rhetorical analysis on a documentary titled the social dilemma. I felt unsatisfied with my body paragraph and was hoping you could help me with it.
I used ethos and logos and want to utilize those appeals in my essay correctly. Is my logos paragraph properly analyzed and detailed enough? Are my punctuations appropriately placed? If you could, please look at it and review it.
Thank you.
For the past decade, social networking has contributed exceptionally to the intellectual growth of humanity. Social networking has become a tool for the progression of human society. With contributions such as social interaction and access to news and information, it is easy to forget that all good things come at a price. Now the tools created for society’s benefits are starting to erode the social fabric of how society works. In “the social dilemma,” Jeff Orlowski effectively argues that social media companies manipulate users by using algorithms that encourage addiction to their platforms while making a profit by selling users’ data. He does this by appealing to the viewer’s sense of logos via statistics and studies and their sense of ethos by including credible testimonies.
In this Emmy-winning film, Orlowski kicks off 2020’s most palpable documentary by subtly introducing some of silicon valley’s brightest minds in social networking as they skim through the main points of the topics. He then continues by adding news clips that portray the adverse effects of social media on society and democracy. The documentary then includes graphical presentations and analytic illustrations that share Orlowski’s point of view. They then dive into manipulative techniques social media companies use to addict their users and the psychology behind it. The interviewees express that social media often increases depression and suicide rates among teenagers and young adults. Orlowski uses a fictional story to illustrates the effect of social media on modern-day life. The story includes a teenager played by Skyler Gisondo, as he gradually falls prey to these manipulation tactics and is plunged into addiction. They introduce the dangers that artificial intelligence and fake news have on our society. Tristan Harris (an American technology ethicist and computer scientist) argues that social media companies participate in a “disinformation-for-profit business model” and make money by selling customer data to companies at the most profitable price. Orlowski then concludes by emphasizing AI’s role in social media and a quick solution as the credits roll by.
Throughout his documentary, Orlowski develops the credibility of his film by including ethos. He does this by introducing dozens of knowledgeable and experienced personnel in the field of social networking. Orlowski interviews experts such as Tristan Harris (Former Google Design Ethicist and, Co-Founder of Center for Humane Technology), Tim Kendall (Former Facebook Executive and, Former President of Pinterest), Roger McNamee (Early investor at Facebook), Justin Rosenstein (Facebook engineer and, Google engineer), Jeff Seibert (Former executive at Twitter) and, Sean Parker (Former President at Facebook); people that were once major players in what social media has become today. He uses them to shed light on the topic while emphasizing the roles they once held to boost the reliability and integrity of their words and explanations. For example, he asked the interviewees if they let their kids use social media. Their responses were similar to “My kids don’t use social media at all,” further stating that “many people in the tech industry don’t give these devices to their own children.” He does this to appeal to the parents amongst his audience by informing them that credible persons in the social media world do not let their kids use social media order while making the audience question why they let their kids use social media. This serves as a call to order to identify the part parents must play to enforce the mental protection of their children by limiting the use of social media in their homes.
To further strengthen his argument, jeff Orlowski uses several studies, statistics, logical progression of ideas to demonstrate their point. He presents depression, self-harm, and suicide rates in teens and shows the relationship between them and social media. The documentary states that “There has been a gigantic increase in depression and anxiety for American teenagers which began right around between 2011 and 2013.” Within the same period, they explain that self-harm and suicide rates in teens had risen by 62% and 70%, while it had risen by 189% and 151% among pre-teens. He presents this not just to raise awareness of the negative impacts of social media but also its consequences on our youths.
Sophocles said, “Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.” Undoubtedly social media has been a stepping stone for humanity, but it could also become her downfall. I believe “the social dilemma” does a fantastic job presenting society’s issues with the addictive use of social media. He includes statistics, logical arguments, and credible creators of these platforms to convince his viewers that they unintentionally become addicted to social media because of its algorithms, whose primary goal is to make money. I found this documentary to be detailed and informative but not entirely beneficial. Orlowski introduces the problem but barely provides a solution. Yes! The power to overcome social dilemmas is within humanity’s ability, but it would be irrational to assume that most of the population would relinquish the use of social platforms. Does society need to tighten privacy settings, limit the time you spend on media, and carefully consider whether you need each one? Or does Silicon Valley need to develop and improve existing artificial intelligence to prevent or limit addictive behavior? In any case, we must not fall prey to the negative influences of social media because we are the predators right up until we become the prey.

1. Which central ideas are developed in the play
The Glass Menagerie
?
Select the two correct answers.
Amanda wants to control everything in her son’s life, and he responds with anger and sarcasm.
Jim misleads Laura into thinking that he’s interested in pursuing a serious relationship with her.
Amanda is a woman who lives in the past of gentleman callers and expects her daughter’s life to be the same.
Laura pretends to go to business school to appease her mother, but she has loftier goals.
2. In
The Glass Menagerie
, even though the Wingfields live in a run-down apartment in the city, Amanda is concerned about being proper and keeping up appearances.
Which detail from the play best supports this inference?
LAURA [shakily]: “How was the DAR. meeting? [AMANDA slowly opens her purse and removes a dainty white handkerchief which she shakes out delicately and delicately touches to her lips and nostrils.] Didn’t you go to the DAR. meeting, Mother?”
AMANDA: “We can’t have a gentleman caller in a pigsty! All my wedding silver has to be polished, the monogrammed table linen ought to be laundered!”
AMANDA: “I took that horrible novel back to the library-yes! That hideous book by that insane Mr. Lawrence. [Tom laughs wildly.] I cannot control the output of diseased minds or people who cater to them -[Tom laughs still more wildly.] BUT I WON’T ALLOW SUCH FILTH BROUGHT INTO MY HOUSE! NO, no, no, no, no!”
AMANDA: “Do you realize he’s the first young man we’ve introduced to your sister? It’s terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a single gentleman caller.”
3. Which line from
The Glass Menagerie
leaves matters uncertain about Tom for readers?
AMANDA: “It seems extremely peculiar that you wouldn’t know your best friend was going to be married!”
TOM: “First it turned to wine and then it turned to beer and then it turned to whisky. I knew it was whisky it finally turned into because he needed somebody to come up out of the audience to help him, and I came up—both shows!”
TOM: “All right, I will! The more you shout about my selfishness to me the quicker I’ll go, and I won’t go to the movies!”
TOM: “For sixty-five dollars a month I give up all that I dream of doing and being ever! And you say self—
self’s
all I ever think of.”
4. Read this excerpt from Scene 7 of
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams.
TOM: I’m going to the movies.
AMANDA: That’s right, now that you’ve had us make such fools of ourselves. The effort, the preparations, all the expense! The new floor lamp, the rug, the clothes for Laura! all for what? To entertain some other girl’s fiancé! Go to the movies, go! Don’t think about us, a mother deserted, an unmarried sister who’s crippled and has no job! Don’t let anything interfere with your selfish pleasure I just go, go, go—to the movies!
TOM: All right, I will! The more you shout about my selfishness to me the quicker I’ll go, and I won’t go to the movies!
AMANDA: Go, then! Then go to the moon—you selfish dreamer!
[Tom smashes his glass on the floor. He plunges out on the fire-escape, slamming the door. LAURA screams—cut by door.
Dance-hall Music up. TOM goes to the rail and grips it desperately, lifting his face in the chill white moonlight penetrating narrow abyss of the alley.
LEGEND ON SCREEN: ‘ AND SO GOOD-BYE…’
How does this scene affect the play?
It leads to the conclusion of the play and Tom’s closing speech where he admits that he is finally leaving.
It shows that Tom finally stops caring about what will happen to Laura in the future.
It leaves the question unanswered as to whether Tom really goes to the movies or goes drinking.
It demonstrates how Tom continues to emotionally detach himself from the situation at the apartment.
5. Read this excerpt from Scene 5 of
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams.
TOM: I’m going out to smoke.
AMANDA: You smoke too much. A pack a day at fifteen cents a pack. How much would that amount to in a month? Thirty times fifteen is how much, Tom? Figure it out and you will be astounded at what you could save….
TOM: I’d rather smoke. [He steps out on the landing letting the screen door slam.]
AMANDA [sharply]: I know! That’s the tragedy of it. [Alone, she turns to look at her husband’s picture.]
TOM [to the audience]: Across the alley from us was the Paradise Dance Hall. On evenings in spring the windows and doors were open and the music came outdoors. Sometimes the lights were turned out except for a large glass sphere that hung from the ceiling. It would turn slowly about and filter the dusk with delicate rainbow colours. Then the orchestra played a waltz or a tango, something that had a slow and sensuous rhythm. Couples would come outside, to the relative privacy of the alley. You could see them kissing behind ash-pits and telegraph poles.
This was the compensation for lives that passed like mine, without any change or adventure….
[AMANDA turns from the picture and comes outside.]
AMANDA [sighing]: A fire-escape landing’s a poor excuse for a porch. [She spreads a newspaper on a step and sits down grace and demurely as if she were settling into a swing on a Mississippi veranda.] What are you looking at?
TOM: The moon.
AMANDA: Is there a moon this evening?
TOM: It’s rising over Garfinkel’s Delicatessen.
AMANDA: So it is! A little silver slipper of a moon. Have you made a wish on it yet?
TOM: Um-hum.
AMANDA: What did you wish for?
TOM: That’s a secret.
What does the fire escape symbolize in the play?
It suggests that the Wingfields are superstitious people who believe that wishes come true.
It shows that the Wingfields like to spend time outdoors when the weather is nice.
It indicates a place where the family can enjoy some free entertainment from the dance hall.
It represents the family’s need to escape the reality of their desperate situation.
6. Read this excerpt from Scene 4 of
The Glass Menagerie
.
AMANDA: Oh, I can see the handwriting on the wall as plain as I see the nose in front of my face! It’s terrifying! More and more you remind me of your father! He was out all hours without explanation!—Then left! Good-bye! And me with the bag to hold. I saw that letter you got from the Merchant Marine. I know what you’re dreaming of. I’m not standing here blindfolded.
What is the meaning of “me with the bag to hold”?
It’s an indication that Amanda suspects Tom has been doing something illegal.
It suggests that Mr. Wingfield left all his belongings behind when he left.
It indicates that Amanda was left with a lot of responsibility when her husband left.
It shows that Amanda is aware that Tom is planning on moving out.
7. Read this excerpt from Scene 1 of
The Glass Menagerie
.
TOM: I am the narrator of the play, and also a character in it. The other characters are my mother Amanda, my sister Laura and a gentleman caller who appears in the final scenes. He is the most realistic character in the play, being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from. But since I have a poet’s weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.
What is most likely the meaning of
emissary
?
optimist
peacemaker
representative
spokesperson
8. Read this excerpt from Scene 7 of
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams.
LAURA: This one is one of the oldest. It’s nearly thirteen. [He stretches out his hand.]
Oh, be careful—if you breathe, it breaks!
JIM: I’d better not take it. I’m pretty clumsy with things.
LAURA: Go on, I trust you with him! [Places it in his palm.]
There now—you’re holding him gently!
Hold him over the light. He loves the light! You see how the light shines through him?
JIM: It sure does shine!

Activity 2. Mobile Text tula: Do the following. 1. Read the transcriptions on page 27 or watch again the
video clip, “Ang Pipit”, by Levi Celerio. 2. Create a mobile phone text tula reflecting your
interpretation on the message of the song. 3. Send your output to your teacher via text messaging. 10
Directions: 1. Read the poem, “Apo On the Wall” by Bj Patino. 2. Interview people about their experiences during the Martial Law. 3. Create a collage of photos using PowerPoint depicting the experiences of people during Martial Law. Write a brief description to your work. Apo On the Wall by B} Patina There’s this man’s photo on the wall Of my father’s of?ce at home, you Know, where father brings his work, Where he doesn’t look strange Still wearing his green uniform And colored breast plates, where, To prove that he works hard, he Also brought a photo of his boss Whom he calls Apo, so Apo could You know, hang around on the wall Behind him and look over his shoulders To make sure he’s snappy and all. Father snapped at me once, caught me Sneaking around his of?ce at home Looking at the stuff on his wall- handguns, Plaques, a sword, medals a ri?e- Told me that was no place for a boy Only men, when he didn’t really Have to tell me because, you know, That photo of Apo on the wall was already Looking at me around, His eyes following me like he was That scary Jesus in the hallway, saying I know what you’re doing.
Mobile text tula is a traditional Filipino poem. A particular example
of this poem is a tanaga that consists of 4 lines with 7 syllables each with
the same rhyme at the end of each line. (DepEd 2013, 8).

Can someone please answer the questions based on the following poem?
“August Moonrise” by Sara Teasdale
The sun was gone, and the moon was coming
Over the blue Connecticut hills;
The west was rosy, the east was flushed,
And over my head the swallows rushed
This way and that, with changeful wills.
I heard them twitter and watched them dart
Now together and now apart
Like dark petals blown from a tree;
The maples stamped against the west
Were black and stately and full of rest,
And the hazy orange moon grew up
And slowly changed to yellow gold
While the hills were darkened, fold on fold
To a deeper blue than a flower could hold.
Down the hill I went, and then
I forgot the ways of men,
For night-scents, heady, and damp and cool
Wakened ecstasy in me
On the brink of a shining pool.
O Beauty, out of many a cup
You have made me drunk and wild
Ever since I was a child,
But when have I been sure as now
That no bitterness can bend
And no sorrow wholly bow
One who loves you to the end?
And though I must give my breath
And my laughter all to death,
And my eyes through which joy came,
And my heart, a wavering flame;
If all must leave me and go back
Along a blind and fearful track
So that you can make anew,
Fusing with intenser fire,
Something nearer your desire;
If my soul must go alone
Through a cold infinity,
Or even if it vanish, too,
Beauty, I have worshipped you.
Let this single hour atone
For the theft of all of me.