Read the excerpt from song, "brother, can you spare a dime? "once i built a railroad, made it run, made it race against time. once i built a railroad, now it's done— which idea is conveyed in the excerpt? (a) the speaker does not want to build rails anymore.(b) all the necessary railroad tracks have been completed.(c) the american railroads are the fastest in the world.(d) the speaker used to have work, but now there isn't any.

As you have learned, epic heroes experience trials along their journeys. using your knowledge from beowulf, create a trial you believe an epic hero like beowulf might face. you will need to write a description of the trial using the aspects of a narrative. the trial can be anything you imagine, meaning you can test the hero in any way you see fit. be creative and have fun with this! let your creativity flow. focus on key attributes of beowulf and use his attributes to create a trial that would truly test him. since beowulf is very strong, a trial involving strength and endurance might be to easy. try thinking outside the box to create a trial that would truly test the hero of the geats. examples of beowulf’s attributes: couragous, loyal, strong, persistant, honorable, confident try to use one or multiples of these attribute when designing your trial. a good way to think of this activity is that you are a hunger games game designer. what could you make that would stump beowulf

Need ! compare and contrast your independent reading selection with one or two other selections you have read in this unit. support your response with at least two pieces of evidence from your independent reading selection. be sure to give the title and author of your selection.

Discuss the exploration of conflict and the resolution in the story the tempest by william shakespeare in essay form