(The camera takes us across the porches again. A man is replacing a light bulb and on a front porch. He gets off his stool to flick the switch and finds that nothing happens. Another man is working on an electric
power mower. He plugs in the plug, flicks the switch of the mover off and on, but nothing happens.
Through a window we see a woman pushing her finger up and down on a dial hook of a telephone. Her
voice sounds far away.)
What does the stage direction tell you as a reader? If you were creating this scene as a director or
actor, how would this stage direction help you create the scene? How do stage directions contribute
to the overall message of a play or teleplay? (Answer all of the questions and use complete
sentences.)

Read the following passage "you're not here to read books, you're here to learn! " the childwrangler's voice screeched as we kept our picks moving rhythmically against the school walls. we had all heard about a time, back in the dark ages, when children read books at school. they say school was even a building above ground. but that was obviously dangerous. how could society thrive if all the children sat around reading all day? when would they have time to learn about veins of coal, processing fuel, and all that stuff? school was important.what two central ideas in this story are most closely related? a. the importance of literature and the dangers of miningb. humankind's basic survival needs and independence c. the nature of learning and societal dysfunctiond. the powers of rumors and abuse of authority

Mr. underwood's editorial defending tom robinson is surprising because he's described as not wanting to be near negroes it's a dangerous stance to take at that time he had been neutral during the trial he wasn't in the courtroom

Some one drawing water and my theater placed my hand under the spout. as the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water , first slowly , then rapidly . i stood still ,my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers . suddenly i felt misty consciousness as of soothing forgotten --a thrill of returning thought and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me this passage from the stoyof my life is an wxample of which element of plotclimax action