Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban.

the sunset flares behind a row of brownstones, linking them as if by a flaming ribbon. lourdes massages her eyes and begins walking with legs that feel held by splints.

“i’m glad to see you, lourdes. you for everything, hija, the hat, the cigars. you buried me like an egyptian king, with all my valuables! ” jorge del pino laughs.

lourdes perceives the faint scent of her father’s cigar . .

“where are you, papi? ”

the street is vacant, as if a force has absorbed all living things. even the trees seem more shadow than substance.

“nearby,” her father says, serious now.

the author uses magic realism by
a. revealing jorge’s appreciation for his valued burial gifts.
b. describing the support for lourdes’s unstable legs as she walks.
c. using words such as “flares,” “faint,” “vacant,” and “shadow.”
d. comparing the description of the setting sun with a flaming ribbon.

Read the two excerpts from act 4, scene 3, and act 5, scene 5, of julius caesar. cassius. ha! portia? brutus. she is dead. cassius. how scaped i killing when i crossed you so? o insupportable and touching loss! upon what sickness? brutus. impatient of my absence, and grief that young octavius with mark antony have made themselves so strong—for with her death that tidings came. with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. brutus. why this, volumnius. the ghost of caesar hath appeared to me two several times by night—at sardis once, and this last night, here in philippi fields. i know my hour is come. volumnius. not so, my lord. brutus. nay, i am sure it is, volumnius. thou seest the world, volumnius, how it goes. our enemies have beat us to the pit, [low alarums] it is more worthy to leap in ourselves than tarry till they push us. good volumnius, thou know’st that we two went to school together. even for that, our love of old, i prithee, hold thou my sword hilts, whilst i run on it. . so fare you well at once, for brutus’ tongue hath almost ended his life’s history. night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, that have but laboured to attain this hour. . i prithee, strato, stay thou by thy lord. thou art a fellow of a good respect. thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it. hold then my sword, and turn away thy face while i do run upon it. wilt thou, strato? which statement best compares brutus’s remarks at the death of his wife, portia, to his words before his own death? brutus shows more sadness for portia’s death than he does for his own. brutus is more philosophical about his own death than he is about portia’s. brutus uses more imagery when speaking about portia’s death than about his own. brutus reacts more matter-of-factly about his own death than he does about portia’s.

Critical thinking questions what factors led to the creation and implementation of operation reinhard? how did the residents of the ghettos respond to mass deportations and what occurred when the residents realized what happened to those deported? what did rudolf hoess’s testimony at the end of the war suggest about the final solution and planned deportation and resettlement? how did operation reinhard differ from earlier nazi actions and how was it similar? was resettlement seriously considered and why was it not used?

It is very important to promote self esteem in young children