Read the passage below (from Gertrude Stein's Three Lives) with accuracy and fluency. Discuss any unfamiliar words from the passage and what strategies you used to understand them.
Lena?s German voice when she knocked and called the family in the morning was as awakening, as soothing, and as
appealing, as a delicate soft breeze in midday, summer. She stood in the hallway every morning a long time in her
unexpectant and unsuffering German patience calling to the young ones to get up. She would call and wait a long time
and then call again, always even, gentle, patient, while the young ones fell back often into that precious, tense, last bit of
sleeping that gives a strength of joyous vigor in the young, over them that have come to the readiness of middle age, in
their awakening.

When harry discusses their approaching death, this could be considered: empathy theme morbid symbolism

The associated press is a wire service in of news around the world. 1.portable 2.importer 3.reporter 4.transport which will fill in the blank need plz

Read the following scene from trifles. mrs. peters. she was piecing a quilt. (she brings the large sewing basket, and they look at the bright pieces.) mrs. hale. it’s log cabin pattern. pretty, isn’t it? i wonder if she was goin’ to quilt or just knot it? (footsteps have been heard coming down the stairs. the sheriff enters, followed by hale and the county attorney.) sheriff. they wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it. (the men laugh, the women look abashed.) county attorney (rubbing his hands over the stove). frank’s fire didn’t do much up there, did it? well, let’s go out to the barn and get that cleared up. (the men go outside.) how would a film version most likely emphasize the men’s emotions during this scene? by emphasizing the variety of props used by showing the men’s facial expressions by highlighting the characters’ costumes by focusing on the actions of the women