4. Explain the symbolism of the blue sky, both in her reminiscence as a young girl, and now, as she looks out the window.

5. Chopin describes a broad range of emotions throughout the story. In the end, what do you think

really killed Louisa?

6. Discuss this story's relevance to the Feminist Movement, its themes and underlying message. Why

was Chopin's work controversial?

7. After reading the story once, re-read it, this time examine Chopin's precise word choice early in the

story, her use of veiled hints, and describe her ability to "fool" her casual reader. What's the irony in her

dramatic ending?

4- en el restaurante fill in the blanks with complete sentences using the cues and the preterite form of the verbs.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

The dragon wakes is a metaphor for a big event; what is the event how does moonshadows belief about dragons him understand what is happening