p488-489

1. Whether President Reagan's decision to seek an arms areement was indeed a little memorial to the author's mother.

2. Summarize how Gage became successful.

3. Explain what Gage's father does with the photograph of his son with President Kennedy and What this detail tells the reader about the father.

4. "For the first time I began....would know of her courage. "

How's your feeling here in this passage?

5. What Gage means by "she would alternately bully and charm each one with her own special brand of though love until the spark caught fire."


p490

1. What does the final paragraph tell about the author's purpose for writing this essay?

The 2nd story

The Teacher Who Changed My Life-Nicholas Gage
p484

p486-487

1. A writer's audience helps determine the essay's content, style, and purpose. Gage's selection was first published in a newspaper magazie supplement and written for a general American readership. Discuss how the intended audience affects the content of the first two paragraphs.

2. Summarize how Miss Hurd has affected Gage's life to this point in this story.



3."guerrillas" as "member's of a rebel military force"
"salt-and-pepper  hair " as "black hair that is turning white"

p574

1. "Death" I said.....the burning iron to urge me?"

Point out that the narrator s pleading for any death except that of the pit. Visualize what might be in the pit to inspire such horror, share your ideas with the class.

2. "Could I resist its glow......could I withstand it pressure?"

The narrator pauses here to ask a series of questions. Why might the narrator do so?

p572-573

1. What do you think the narrator is planning?

2. Why does the narrator mave his hand over the platter?

3. Deliverers in this case means "rescuers". Whom does deliverers refer?
"At a wave of my hand my deliverers.....the reach of the scimitar. "

4. Point out that, once again, Poe build suspense by withholding critical information. He reveals this information slowly. Explain what do you think the line of light is and compare your assumption to what it actually is.
" During this period, I became aware......to look through the aperture. "

5. "The galre from the enkindled....its inmost recesses. "

Enkindled means" burning" and that illumined means "lighted"
What is the narrator saying in this sentence?

P570

1. Point out the way Poe starts three successive paragraphs with  the word down to create a parallel structure that builds suspense. Explain how suspense is created here.
" Down
   still
 unceasingly
still inevitably
down! I gasped
and struggled
at each
vibration. "

2. Point out that the first-person point of view enables the author to fucus intensely on the narrator's thoughts and feelings. Identify words that indicate focus on thoughts and feelings.

3. Unique in this case means "single " or "the only one". What is the narrator saying about the bandage that ties him down.

4. enveloped in this case means "covered completely" and that save in this case means "except". Explain what is the narrator saying about the surcingle.