Read the last act of the play and write a commentary in a Word document, post here on assignments. Be sure to include a short summary, in your own words, of the action. What are your thoughts on this fictionalized version of a event that actually happened in the early years of this country? Do you think, after reading this and the article in Common Lit. about the Salem Witchcraft trials that this is something that could happen again? Not ecessarily involving charges of witchcraft, but can you imagine a situation where citizens and neighbors accuse each other of crimes in order to get revenge or for another purpose? Finally, what are your thoughts on the people of Salem--their behavior, their belief in the girls' stories, etc.?

Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of  animal farm. by the autumn the animals were tired but happy. they had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything. it was almost half built now. how does the pacing of this passage affect the reader’s interpretation of the text? a flashback to earlier events provides a pause in the pacing to slow events down. foreshadowing of events provides information as to what will happen to the windmill. the pace of the text quickens to convey the characters’ resolve to finish the windmill. the pace of the text quickens to move the story to its climax, the completion of the windmill.

What do the words “briefer,” “too beautiful to stay,” and “sleep of death” in the last stanza of wylie’s prom suggest about nature’s bounty and a life of plenty and ease?

Which form does a verb take when the subject receives the action?