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EOC BELLRINGER #4 THERE ARE ______DAYS UNTIL THE EOC!!
1. Read the following.
I made a definite decision. after I considered all the variables.
What is the best way to combine the sentence and the sentence fragment?
A. After I considered all the variables, I made a definite decision.
B. I made a definite decision, after I considered all the variables.
C. I considered all the variables, then after I made a definite decision.
D. After I made a definite decision, I considered all the variables.
2. Read this sentence.
She also wore a dark shawl while, she performed and this infamous accessory became a tradition for all future fadistas to wear as well.
What is the correct way to punctuate the underlined portion of this sentence?
A. while she performed, and this infamous accessory
B. while she performed and, this infamous accessory
C. while, she performed, and this infamous accessory
D. while, she performed and, this infamous accessory
3. At what point in the passage does the climax of the story take place?
A. when the narrator realizes that his grandmother serves the same meals every day
B. when the narrator notices that his grandmother’s garden contains a lot of greens
C. when the narrator awakens early and sees his grandmother cooking in the kitchen
D. when the narrator first tastes his grandmother’s angel food cake and noodles
4. How is the character of the grandmother revealed in the story?
A. how the author describes her.
B. how other characters describe her.
C. what she says.
D. what she thinks.
EXIT TICKET: The Encounter from Even Mountains Vanish by SueEllen Campbell
Sometime close to midnight, I go canoeing with Audrey, Jim, and Steve. The sun shines low in the northwest, and I can’t stop thinking that we’d better hurry back before dark, though I know that dark won’t be arriving. The boat Audrey and I share is oddly bent and hard to manage, the current and light breeze are against us, the mosquitoes buzz fiercely around our heads, and we drop slowly behind.
“Caribou!” Audrey exclaims, “Over there, ahead of us, on the right bank.”
I balance my paddle and fish for my binoculars, juggle with my glasses, start scanning the area she is pointing to.
“No, not a caribou, wrong shape. Got it. It’s a wolf! See it?”
To my surprise, I do, my aim and focus suddenly perfect. It is unmistakably a wolf. White and longlegged, it stands right on the edge of the bank some eight feet above the water, not backlit, exactly, but sidelit, and it is looking straight at us. It could have been watching us for a long time, and we might never have known. Its fur glows as if illuminated from within by a thousand candles, as if it stored within itself all the light of the summer for the dark months ahead.
After a long moment, we decide on the risk of generosity, call to Jim and Steve—too quietly for human ears, yet not quietly enough—and watch the wolf turn and disappear.
Lying awake in bed, I think about all the animals I’ve seen here: caribou and musk oxen, swans and loons, Barren Ground grizzlies and arctic wolves. They’re the icons of the Far North, the glamour species. I suppose they might seem to me like clichés, the too familiar emblems of postcards and calendars. But they don’t. Each of these animals seems to be what each one truly is, nothing more and nothing less than real. However magical they look, their bodies are as material as mine, as strong and as
vulnerable. Like me, they live rounded and complex lives.
It was the purity of their solitude that first captured my attention, I suppose, this and the way these animals seem to inhabit the summer with such intensity. And yet in glimpses so brief, I know I can only be seeing tiny slivers of their lives, a few seconds out of years. What will fill the rest of their days? I muse about this question, going over what I know from reading, trying to imagine some of the rest. After this flash of summer, what then?
The musk oxen will stay on the tundra, gathered into larger groups for warmth and safety, perfectly adapted to the harshest weather. The wolf will remain, too, to hunt alone or with its pack. With a small handful of other creatures—willow and rock ptarmigan, foxes, wolverines—these arctic creatures will continue their lives uninterrupted, right here.
Slowly my glimpses of these wild animals are taking on weight for me. They are becoming emblems of what they reveal and what they do not show, what in fact they hide from view—the months spent not alone but in families, packs, flocks, herds; the long migratory journeys; the winters much longer than summers, endless nights of cold wind, snow, and darkness, when the full moon might circle the sky while the sun appears only to rise and set again in the same spot.
They hint at the depth and complexity of living in this place. In my imagination these fleeting visions are becoming more and more resonant and suggestive, cryptic images of balance and poise, courage and joy. They trace for me stories about how life might be lived with a steady intensity, summer without dread of winter, winter without yearning for summer, a sure and delicate balance of solitude and connection, darkness and brilliance spinning around each other like a pair of caribou, one light and the
other dark, in the tight circle of a single whole.
1. In “The Encounter,” during what portion of the plot does the reader realize that the story takes place in the Northwest?
A. exposition
B. rising action
C. climax
D. resolution/denouement
2. The story is told from the ______point of view.
A. First person
B. Third person limited
C. Third person omniscient
D. Third person objective
3. What can the reader infer about the character of the narrator from the story? ______