Text-Dependent Questions 1. What are some details from the text that describe the danger in Ha’s country?
2. What does the title “Closed Too Soon” mean? What is closing? Why does Ha say it is “too soon”?
3. Who are the Communists Ha is referring to?
4. Brother Quang says, “One cannot justify war unless each side flaunts its own blind conviction.”
Flaunt means to show off
Conviction means a strong belief or opinion
* Given these definitions, what do you think Brother Quang means?
5. If conviction is a strong belief or opinion, what might a blind conviction be?
6. How is Ha’s papaya tree doing? How do you know?
7. Is the papaya tree healthy or not? What is your evidence?

1) earth's crust is made up of relatively rigid plates that ride atop earth's hot, semiliquid mantle. (2) the plates are called tectonic because they're in constant motion. (3) they can move because earth's mantle is a very hot and semiliquid fluid called magma. (4) volcanoes are a result of magma rising up or erupting through a plate, particularly where plate boundaries are moving against each other. (5) also, when plates slide against each other, causing friction along adjacent plate boundaries, earthquakes frequently occur. (6) therefore, we often find volcanoes and earthquakes along plate boundaries. (7) plates may also collide. (8) when that happens, mountain ranges are formed. (9) for example, the collision of the plate carrying the indian subcontinent created the himalayan mountains when it collided with the asian plate. which statement about this paragraph is accurate?