Why do you think most of Dickens’s works focus on portraying the lives of the poor and the working class?

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Explanation:

Certainly Dickens was sympathetic to the working poor—what he would have considered to be the good or "deserving" poor. Examples of these are the Plornish family in Little Dorrit, as well as working-class characters down on their luck, like Stephen Blackpool in Hard Times, or middle-class characters struggling to hide their loss of class status as the result of poverty, like Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol. Dickens was almost always sympathetic to poor women, including prostitutes like Nancy in Oliver Twist, and children like Jo the street sweeper in Bleak House.

But Dickens was also, like many of his contemporaries, worried, even afraid of the potential for crime and violence in poverty, particularly in people like Bill Sykes (Oliver Twist), especially when those people congealed into a mob. (The out-of-control masses of the Gordon riots in Barnaby Rudge, or the revolutionaries in Tale of Two Cities are good examples.) Generally speaking, Dickens believed—and strongly insisted in his work—that crime was a result of poverty and its corollary, ignorance; but despite his sympathetic treatments of characters like Magwitch in Great Expectations, there is a barely-controlled anxiety in many of his works about an unredeemable evil in some poor people.

In his own time, Dickens was seen as a champion of “the poor” by some of the poor themselves. (One of the street sellers Henry Mayhew interviewed in 1851 said Dickens was a great favorite of the “patterers” who sold ballads and other materials on the street; Silas Wegg in Our Mutual Friend is a patterer.) Author and critic G.K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) characterized Dickens as “the spokesman of the poor”—a label that was almost immediately challenged by George Orwell, among others. But whatever ambivalences Dickens, like his contemporaries, had about poverty and the poor, one of his greatest achievements was to bring the problem of poverty to the attention of his readers through introducing varieties of poor persons into almost all of his novels, and showing the “deserving” majority of the poor, bravely struggling against the forces arrayed against them.

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Dickens had to quit school and get a job to help settle his father’s debts. One of his first jobs, at age 12, was at a factory that made shoe polish. He experienced firsthand the harsh conditions of English factories during the nineteenth century. These painful experiences probably influenced Dickens to write about the lives of working-class people.

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A Flag with 50 Stars

The first American flag to have red and white stripes and white stars on a blue field was flown in 1776, shortly after the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. Legend has it that a Philadelphia seamstress named Betsy Ross was hired by George Washington himself to create this flag. There is no evidence that this legend is true, and no one knows for certain who made the first flag, which had 13 stars and 13 stripes. However, we know for a fact that the first flag to have 50 stars—the one we have today—was designed by a high school student.

In 1958, Bob Heft was a 17-year-old student at Lancaster High School in Ohio. At that time, the United States had only 48 states but was on the verge of accepting two more: Alaska and Hawaii. The U.S. flag at the time had six neat rows of eight stars each. What would be the best way to add two more stars while keeping the arrangement neat and orderly? This was the question that Bob’s history teacher posed to the class.

The teacher gave the students an assignment: design a flag with 50 stars. Bob spent hours in the attic of his house, cutting up a 48-star flag and rearranging the stars until they fit just right. He was pleased with his solution to the problem, but his teacher found it less than perfect and gave him a B minus. Outraged, Bob told his teacher that he was going to send his design to his member of Congress, Walter Moeller. His teacher replied that if Bob’s design was accepted as the new flag, he would be more than happy to change his grade to an A.

A year later, Bob had graduated and was working as a draftsman when he received a call at work. He never would have imagined a call from President Eisenhower—but that's who it was! Now that Alaska and Hawaii had been admitted as states, Congressman Moeller had succeeded in having Bob's design chosen as the new U.S. flag. Bob Heft was invited to Washington, D.C., for a ceremony during which his design was officially adopted as the new flag of the United States.

Question 1
Part A

What inference can be made about Bob Heft in “A Flag with 50 Stars”?


He has important connections to government officials.


He works hard and does not give up easily.


He is accustomed to success and does not take criticism well.


He is more knowledgeable about American history than most students.

Question 2
Part B

Which evidence from the text best supports the answer in Part A?


“Bob spent hours in the attic of his house, cutting up a 48-star flag and rearranging the stars until they fit just right.”

“He was pleased with his solution to the problem, but his teacher found it less than perfect and gave him a B minus.”

“Now that Alaska and Hawaii had been admitted as states, Congressman Moeller had succeeded in having Bob's design chosen as the new U.S. flag.”

“His teacher replied that if his design was accepted as the new flag, he would be more than happy to change the grade to an A.”

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A. definitions
B. illustrations
C. charts

Write an open letter about an issue in your school or community modeled after Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." Include whom you are addressing, the change you hope the letter will bring, and valid arguments and reasoning to support your position. Your letter should also include the use of persuasive language, or rhetoric

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I’ll do one today as a warm-up:

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?

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All high school students should have summer jobs.
Select the piece of evidence that best supports this claim.

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The First "Newspaper" War
The Crimean War was fought in the 1850s between Russia on one side and Britain, France, and Turkey on the other. Although it was a major conflict, it is perhaps best remembered as the first war in which journalists were present on the battlefield. News dispatches from William Howard Russell, a reporter for the Times of London, exposed military blunders and revealed the filthy conditions that existed in military hospitals and camps. Photographers such as James Robertson and Roger Fenton made hundreds of photographs of soldiers on the battlefield. These news reports and photographs provided an uncensored look at life on the frontlines. The Crimean War marked the first time in history that people back home were exposed to the horrors of war.

What is the main idea of the passage?

The Crimean War was the first to be the war to be documented for civilians,

The Crimean War was fought between the Russians and the British, French, and Turkish.

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Who is the automobile advertisement intended for? the middle class wealthier individuals the working class independent women

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Video games are valid learning tools.
Select the piece of evidence that best supports this claim.

What is one way that people can harm the environment?
Trees provide shade from the sun for humans and animals.


Trees provide oxygen for humans and animals to breathe.


Trees provide furniture like tables and chairs to use.

Trees are beautiful to look at in parks and forests.

Who has read Labyrinth Lost? Give me a detailed explanation of what you thought about it.

Where in an argumentative essay would this excerpt most likely belong? With so many people feeing that their lives

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Take a moment to think about the story of "Proserpine." Given your level of understanding of the text, why do you think this story was an important part of both Greek and Roman mythology? Do you think this story could be adapted for our current culture? Using what you have learned of schema and inferring, develop an overview of how you would create a contemporary version of "Proserpine."

Compose a paragraph describing how you would modernize "Proserpine." Where would the story take place? Would the characters change or remain the same? Would the myth still be used to explain the changing of the seasons? Or would you use the story to explain some other concept or explore a different theme?

Read the claim below.
Nursing is a highly rewarding career.
Select the piece of evidence that best supports this claim.

How does Jonas’s view of his community change after he receives his first few memories?

Create an interview with a character from a favorite book. Incorporate at least five spelling words into your interview. An interview should include questions from the Interviewer and answers provided from the perspective of the character. Spelling words must be spelled correctly, underlined, and used correctly within the context of the interview. no links

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
#6 What kind of healing is the speaker longing for?
“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—
On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore—
Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”
Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

The speaker’s question, “Is there—is there balm in Gilead?” is a biblical reference meaning, “Will I be healed?”

What kind of healing is the speaker longing for?


A. healing from his fear of the Raven

B. healing from his grief over Lenore’s death

C. healing from being startled

D. healing from a physical injury

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A college education has become too expensive.
Select the piece of evidence that best supports this claim.

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The result is an electrolyte with a positive interior in a negative exterior on one side and a negative interior and a positive exterior on the other basically a biological battery.

What device is being used for the battery?
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole ​

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Write your message in a complete sentence.

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A. long lines of camels and horses
B. protect people and their goods from thieves
C. inns and guesthouses appeared along the roads
D. Markets for buying, selling, and trading goods

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A poem with meter includes:
1. a repeating pattern of accents within each line
2. a pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines
3. at least thirty lines, organized into groups of four
4. an imaginative comparison between two unlike things

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Read the following prompt and type your response in the space provided.

Read "Evening" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.


"Evening"


The moon begins her stately ride

Across the summer sky;

The happy wavelets lash the shore,—

The tide is rising high.


Beneath some friendly blade of grass

The lazy beetle cowers;

The coffers of the air are filled

With offerings from the flowers.


And slowly buzzing o'er my head

A swallow wings her flight;

I hear the weary plowman sing

As falls the restful night.


You will write a short essay composed of two well-developed paragraphs.


Using Paul Dunbar's poem "Evening," identify examples of personification in the poem. Then clearly analyze and explain how personification


a. Creates meaning in the poem.


b. Develops mood and tone.


Make sure you cite specific moments and lines from the poem itself to help explain your ideas.