Write a one-page persuasive essay with your views on the civil disobedience discussed and promoted by Thoreau and Lewis. Do you think civil disobedience is acceptable? Why or why not? If so, what instances of civil disobedience are appropriate and to what degree? You may cite evidence from the lesson, reading selections, speeches, or videos to support your response. Be sure to include a logical introduction, body, and conclusion, and address any counterarguments to your stance. Also, to improve your essay, try brainstorming, outlining, and revising any drafts you write.

Retell the main events of this story as jerry might tell them to his best friend when he returns from vacation or to his own son later in life. in the story through the tunnel

Which two parts of this excerpt from mary shelley’s frankenstein reveals information about the setting? (it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld the accomplishment of my toils.) with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, (i collected the instruments of life around me, that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. it was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out) when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. (how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe), or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavored to form? his limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful. beautiful! great god! (his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; ) but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.

Write approximately 100 words reflecting on your 7-question reading strategy activity. how correct were your first two predictions? what questions worked for you within that activity? what questions didn't? were these reading strategies something you do unconsciously when you read anyway, or were they very foreign ideas? the more you know about how you read, the better you become as a reader. what did you learn about yourself as a reader?