Respond to these prompts. Cite evidence to support your positions. Then, respond to two of your peers’ posts. Discuss how peers’ posts contributed to your ideas about why Shakespeare is read today. Also, explain how peers’ posts helped clarify the role of dreams in the play. Why are Shakespeare’s plays still read today? Is it because of the plots, characters, or language? Is it his ability to communicate what is common to humanity? Near the end of Act IV Scene I, Demetrius says, "Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream." Dreams are referred to throughout the play. What is the purpose of dreams in the play? Do the dreams reveal themes or advance the plot, or are they individuals’ interpretation of reality? Use evidence to support your answer.

Read the excerpt from part 3 of the call of the wild. but it was in giving the law and making his mates live up to it, that buck excelled. dave and sol-leks did not mind the change in leadership. it was none of their business. their business was to toil, and toil mightily, in the traces. so long as that were not interfered with, they did not care what happened. billee, the good-natured, could lead for all they cared, so long as he kept order. the rest of the team, however, had grown unruly during the last days of spitz, and their surprise was great now that buck proceeded to lick them into shape. what theme is most supported by the ideas in this excerpt? good leaders are strong and intelligent. loyalty can be a very powerful force. only the strong survive in the wilderness. we are all ruled by our natural instincts.

Reread lines 6-7 "the survivor." determine how the tone of these differs from the preceding lines (1-5)

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