Assignment: Create a short play incorporating the following elements introduced this week in your Edgenutiy lesson: A short plot that includes characters (at least 2), dialogue, and stage directions (correctly written in italics). In addition to this, your dialogue and/or stage directions should demonstrate your characters' perspective showing their thoughts and feelings about the situation you are writing about. (6th-grade honors ela)

Now, you will work on analyzing the artwork by georges seurat to the right. for this assignment, first, answer all of the questions below (submit your answers). then, write an essay describing what you think the thesis of the photo is. use your answers to the questions as evidence of the thesis. what are the primary images? are there people? animals? describe them. how are light and dark used? are some elements in the dark? what is the physical setting? what else can you see? why do you think this image was created? when do you think this image was created? who do you think was the intended audience? what have you learned from this image? what do you think the artist was trying to say with this image?

Look at the following merriam-webster online dictionary entry for the word cleave: cleave verb \klev transitive verb 1. to divide by or as if by a cutting blow : split 2: to separate into distinct parts and especially into groups having divergent views 3: to subject to chemical cleavage, a protein cleaved by an enzyme intransitive verb 1: to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly which definition is most likely intended in the following sentence? the axe was made of a metal strong enough to cleave even the strongest marble. o a. transitive definition 3 o b. intransitive definition 1 o c. transitive definition 1 o d. transitive definition 2

Read this excerpt from holes. at the time, elya thought nothing of the curse. he was just a fifteen-year-old kid, and “eternity” didn’t seem much longer than a week from tuesday. besides, he liked madame zeroni and would be glad to carry her up the mountain. he would have done it right then and there, but he wasn’t yet strong enough. how does this section of the flashback relate to stanley? a. elya was much older during his difficult time than stanley was during his. b. elya’s physical weakness parallels stanley’s physical weakness. c. elya, like stanley, lives in the moment and does not consider the future. d. elya, like stanley, likes the character who is giving him a hard time.