Read the following excerpt from Eleanor Roosevelt's speech "What Libraries Mean to the Nation." I know one place in the northern part of the state where I camped for a while in the summer, and I went to the school and talked to the
teachers. They are using school books which have been passed down from one child to another. They have practically no books outside of
the textbooks. The children in the district are so poor and some of them so pathetic that I suppose the struggle to live has been so great you
could not think much about what you fed the mind, but I came away feeling that right there, in one of the biggest and richest states in the
country, we had a big area that needed books and needed libraries to help these schools in the education of the children, and, even more,
to help the whole community to learn to live through their minds.
We are doing a tremendous amount through the home economics colleges to help people to learn how to live in their homes, to better their
standards of material living. We have got to think in exactly the same way about helping them to live mentally and to attain better
standards, and we can do it only through the children. We can do ground work with the children; we must begin with them; but we have got
to do a tremendous amount with the older people.
What message is Roosevelt trying to convey?
OA. Parents and children need to be educated about the value of books.
OB. There needs to be greater effort put into teaching children how to read.
OC A higher priority is needed on learning rather than material concerns.
D.
Libraries are necessary because they improve people's overall quality of life.

Read this excerpt from the lady of shalott by alfred, lord tennyson. in which three lines does the poet reveal the monotomy of the lady’s existence

Read the excerpt from act iv, scene iv of romeo and juliet. capulet: good faith! ’tis day: the county will be here with music straight, for so he said he would. [music within.] i hear him near. nurse! wife! what, no! what, nurse, i say! 30 re-enter nurse. go waken juliet, go and trim her up; i’ll go and chat with paris. hie, make haste, make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: make haste, i say. [exeunt.] 35 this scene is an example of dramatic irony used to create suspense since the audience knows that the musicians will not arrive on time. capulet approves of the match to paris. romeo is already married to juliet. the nurse will be unable to rouse juliet.

Frequently the subject of blues songs has to do with some challenge or problem faced by the writer. everyone faces personal challenges. sometimes music us deal with these problems. do you know of times when music has you or people that you know cope with difficult situations? think about your life experiences and challenges or the experiences of someone you know. then write your own twelve-bar blues song that describes one such experience that you or another person has had. your blues song should have three verses. you may write a fourth verse for extra credit. each verse you write should have three phases and should be written in call-and-response form. the first two phases of each verse should describe the experience, challenge, or problem and should act as your “call” phrases. the third phrase should describe the solution to your challenge or problem, or the next step in your story, and should act as your “response” phrase. review “sneaker blues” to see an example of a call-and-response song with three verses. “sneaker blues” my sneakers got a hole and my feet are killing me; my sneakers got a hole and my feet are killing me; i’m gonna get my sneakers fixed just you wait and see. the man said twenty dollars; you have got to be kidding me; the man said twenty dollars; you have got to be kidding me; twenty dollars is what he said, i might have to let them be. the hole in my sneakers is getting bigger every day; the hole in my sneakers is getting bigger every day; twenty dollars is what he said, that’s what i’ll have to pay. write your song title and verses as the answers to the questions. after you have written your song, try putting it to music using one of the online music samples. original twelve-bar blues song (2 points) score 1. title(6 points) score 2. verse 1line 1: line 2: line 3: (6 points) score 3. verse 2 line 1: line 2: line 3: (6 points) score 4. verse 3 line 1: line 2: line 3: