Read the excerpt from "The Wedding Night" and answer the questions that follow. My dear Genevieve, you ask me to tell you about my wedding journey. How do you think I dare? Ah! Sly one,
who had nothing to tell me, who even allowed me to guess at nothing-but there! nothing from nothing!.
Wait! I take courage from writing, and have decided to tell you all. But promise me not to laugh too much. And
do not expect a comedy. It is a drama.
How does the author use tone to set the time and place of his story? How would the tone be different if writing about
similar events today? Then pick one sentence and rewrite it as if you were writing about a terrifying or humiliating night
to your friend. Your response should be at least one hundred words.

Why are reading and writing necessary in today’s world

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

Imagine that you have just moved to a new city.write a short letter to your best friendtelling him or her about the move.be sure to include the date and your new address.use additional paper ifnecessary