Assignment Directions You have been asked to develop an imaginary geocache treasure hunt. To create the hunt, you need to work with two
other students. One student will be stationed near you in a coffee shop. The other student will be located two miles away
at your school. You will need to communicate with one another as you coordinate this event. Pretend you have been given
$650 to develop this hunt.
• Research the costs of various mobile computing devices.
• Write, in a report of at least 250 words, your mobile device purchase recommendations that will best suit the
student communication needs of your assignment.
Assignment Guidelines:
Here are some thoughts to consider:
• In light of your budget, which device is the best buy for communicating with your fellow student in the coffee
shop?
. Which device is the best choice for communicating with your fellow student located at your school?
• What trade-offs do you need to consider, such as size of device vs. features?

In at least one hundred words, discuss how the man with the umbrella in sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella” is an example of an extended metaphor and what central theme he conveys.

What is the central idea of paragraph 1 of the story?

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”