How does the radio communication from the Mothership affect the story? It gives background information about the children's lives before landing on the new planet.

It gives Maria the strength to be the first to leave the ship to explore the new planet.

It explains the work that was done to make the landing on the new planet possible.

It foreshadows the frightening experience the children will have exploring the new planet.

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frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can