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PRAXIS 5311 Library Media Specialist Latest Update 100% Pass Tinker v. Des Moines U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a student's First Amendment right to engage in symbolic speech in school. Students were expelled after wearing black arm bands to school to protest the Vietnam War. ALA v. Department of Justice and Reno v. ACLU Declared unconstitutional a crime to send or display indecent material on line in a way available to minors. Island Trees School District v. Pico (1982) Boo...

Praxis 5038 Authors and their Major Works (2023/2024) Already Graded A Maya Angelou (early 1900s) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African-American autobiographer and poet Jane Austen (1770s-1800s) Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma. Social Satires of feminism Ray Bradbury (mid 1900s) Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles,. Science fiction short stories. McCarthyism Willa Cather () Death comes for the archbishop, O! Pioneers, My Antonia Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage ...

3.1.9 Write: Prepare a Narrative Writing Guide English 11 Sem 1 Name: Date: Write a narrative about a humorous situation. Whether you focus on a real event or make up a fictional one, you must use comedic techniques and rich description to bring the experience to life. You'll start with a narrator who has a clear perspective, even if the narrator is you. Then you'll build the scene from the ground up: You'll describe the setting using imagery that appeals to the senses, you'll bring ...

CBEST English Prep Questions with Correct Answers Mark Twain, "How to Tell a Story" There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind--the humorous... The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the MANNER of the telling; the comic story upon the MATTER. The humorous story may be spun out to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular; but...

Praxis 5039 Everything to Know Questions and Answers Graded A+ Language that is being spoken to a person is called _____________ language. receptive Language that expresses thoughts and feelings to others is called ________________ language. expressive stressed, unstressed, unstressed dactylic stressed, stressed spondee stressed, unstressed trochaic unstressed, stressed iambic unstressed, unstressed, stressed anapestic The __________ English literary time period lasted ...

2024 WSC Full Set – Pocketpwaa (Definitions from Pocketpwaa - Study Guide Not to be used as a sole source, just a review) Rated 100% Correct Diorama A taxidermied subject within its historical environment. Established by Carl Akeley in 1890, and requires research from Botanists, Zoologists, Anthropoligists, etc. Aaron Delehanty A person specializing in creating dioramas, starting since he was in 6th grade. Worked on a Hemedu civilization diorama with the Cyrus Hall of China as well as ...

1) Read this excerpt from, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. 2) Answer the question. "The whooping went on, and in about a minute, I come a-booming down on a cut bank with smoky ghosts of big trees on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of snags that fairly roared, the current was tearing by them so swift. In another second or two it was solid white and still again. I set perfectly still then, listening to my heart thump, and I r...

J.D. Salinger - American writer The Catcher in the Rye Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind Homer - Iliad Odyssey John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men The Grapes of Wrath J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Emma Sense and Sensibility English Novelist Romantic Fiction Mary Shelley - English novelist Gothic novel - Frankenstein Jonathon Swift - Gulliver's Travels Upton Sinclair - The Jungle Jack London - The Call of the Wild Agatha Chr...

1) Read this excerpt from, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. 2) Answer the question. "The whooping went on, and in about a minute, I come a-booming down on a cut bank with smoky ghosts of big trees on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of snags that fairly roared, the current was tearing by them so swift. In another second or two it was solid white and still again. I set perfectly still then, listening to my heart thump, and I r...

CLEP Humanities Latest Update Graded A+ Antagonist The character/idea against whom the protagonist (or hero) struggles. Often referred to as the "bad guy", though this label is limiting. Simile A comparison (like a metaphor), but it uses the words "like" or "as". Example: Her eyes were big as diamonds. Tragedy It follows the descent of its main character into a catastrophe, resulting in catharsis—evoking the audience's pity and fear at the character's demise. The main character is us...