Nancee Research Paper

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*DO NOT WRITE ON THIS PACKET!!* Record your answers on the answer sheet! Theme | | "Only five minutes until showtime, people!" called Mrs. Kseniya to the crowd of students rushing around backstage. "Great," Nancee muttered under her breath. "I only have a million things to do before then." Her friend Tremina patted her shoulder reassuringly. "The costumes look great, Nan," Tremina told her. "After you finish hemming my skirt, everything will be perfect." "Perfect? Hardly!" exclaimed Nancee. "It takes at least ten minutes for me to hem a skirt, and you are expected on the stage in five minutes." "Three minutes," Sandomir corrected her as he raced past. He and Dmitry were attempting to assemble the backdrop…show more content…
| The tension and haste backstage cause Nancee to act rashly. | | C. | The competition between actors causes Nancee to feel jealous. | | D. | The hazardous stage area endangers the lives of several students. | Write your response here: | Water runs dry in rural Tennessee town by Matthew Bigg ORME, Tennessee (Reuters) - A small town tucked away in the mountains of southern Tennessee is getting by on just a few hours of water a day. Its spring has run dry in the drought sweeping the Southeast. Each evening, residents wait for Mayor Tony Reames to make the short drive from his home up to a water tower on a wooded hill above the town to open a valve. When the water is flowing families can fill buckets and water jars, do laundry, take showers and wash dishes before the faucets run dry and they wait for the next evening. Resident Julie Hoover described Orme as a "hideaway" and a "piece of heaven." It was safe and everyone knew each other, but she said the water shortage had created serious problems. "People don't like change and they don't like losing their water," said Hoover, who started filling up buckets with water draining from an air-conditioner to get water to flush toilets when the spring ran dry in…show more content…
| Reames says, "A person don't know what they have got till it's gone." Which person below best reflects this theme? | | | A. | one who donates money to charity | | B. | one who loses a home in a tornado | | C. | one who destroys buildings for a job | | D. | one who gives a present to a friend | Write your response here: | The Deserted Child by Isabel C. Byrum "Why, woman, you are not thinking of leaving that child in this place for us to look after! Our hands are more than full already. The child is scarcely a month old. We have orders to accept no children under seven months of age without their mothers. You have to remain for that length of time to help us care for it." It was August Engler, steward of the county poorhouse, that spoke these words to Mrs. Fischer, a young woman who had come to the poorhouse with the intention of leaving her infant child. Mrs. Fischer had recently lost her husband, a soldier in the Civil War, in battle and immediately had gone into deep mourning as far as her dress was concerned. The care of her child, however, she felt was too great a responsibility to assume alone, and she had decided that the best thing to do was to give her child away and that the sooner it was done the
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