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How can folktales teach us a lesson, and what can we learn?

Which of the following should you do when offering criticism? Examine your motives. Offer encouragement. Be indirect. Acknowledge your faults. Focus on the positive, not the negative. Use I-language. Be specific.

How important is conflict or problem in a story? Which story had the most intense or developed conflict to you?

Who is Othello's wifw?

Read the sentence below and complete the instruction that follows. The winner of the international vaulting competition might be she. Determine the case and function of the underlined pronoun.

Which two sentences contain misplaced modifiers? Bobby returned his library book to the library that was overdue. Listening to the ocean waves crashing on the beach, I began to relax from a hard day at school.

Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall." We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each.

Read the following passage from "The Black Cat": But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul. My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events.

Read the excerpt from the play Trifles, by Susan Glaspell. HALE. Harry and I had started to town with a load of potatoes.

How many people died in 9/11