2. Although the story is fiction, it is based on real events in Alsace after the Franco-Prussian war. Consider the effects of the war on the lives of the everyday people in this town. How does war change people? Is it
ever for the better? Cite evidence from this text, your own experience, and other literature, art, or history in
your answer

Read the excerpt from it's our world, too! : young people who are making a difference.the author’s purpose in this excerpt is to

Read this excerpt from "a visit from the goon squad."that’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“eyes in my head,” “x’s and o’s,” “who’s watching hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. untouched.how does the author use satire in this excerpt? the author is criticizing media censorship.the author is criticizing the idea of isolationism.the author is mocking society’s overuse of technology.the author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.

Postreading strategies are used before reading a text. when reading for specific information. when reading for general meaning. after reading a text.