☹At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, "A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know. So you'll go VERY quickly through the Third Square -- by railway, I should think -- and you'll find yourself in the Fourth Square in no time. Well, THAT square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee -- the Fifth is mostly water -- the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty -- But you make no remark?" —Through the Looking Glass,
Lewis Carroll

The chessboard is like a roadmap Alice must follow. When we leave Alice at the end of Part 2, she has taken the train to the Fourth Square.

Read the passage. What question could you ask about what will happen next on Alice’s journey?

What is the probability of getting a license plate with 123 abc or abc 123?

Buck did not cry out. he did not check himself, but drove in upon spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. they rolled over and over in the powdery snow. spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing buck down the shoulder and leaping clear. twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled. read this passage. explain what the conflict shows about buck and spitz.

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.