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DIRECTION: Paraphrase the following lines.

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Man did not weave the Web of Life:

He is merely a strand in it.Whatever he does to the

web,He does to himself.

Man did not weave the Web of Life:

He is merely a strand in it.Whatever he does to the

web,He does to himself.

Chief Seattle Chief Seattle

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DIRECTION: Paraphrase t he following lines.

You will never have a riverSteady and sure in its flowUnless in the upper reachesTrees verdant and helpful grow.And you will never find a forestWide and refreshing and grandUnless it is nourished by riversThat flow through, renewing the land.And man who destroys the timberLeaving the mountainside bareWonders what dried up the riverThat once ran steadily there.

A.G. JACKSON

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Recog nizing Definition as a Context Clue

DIRECTION: Find the meaning of words through context clues.

1. Factories send gases such as carbon dioxide, a gas that is found in the atmosphere and is one of the by-products of respiration.

2. Factories are sending more CO2 into the atmosphere, a mixture of gases that surround the earth.

3. The combination of too much CO2 in the atmosphere and the lack of trees caused the situation known as the greenhouse effect.

4. The Guatemalan women know a lot about their environment, which is the natural world within which people, animals, and plants live.

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ACTIVITY SHEET #Riders to the Sea

DIRECTION: Answer the following questions:1. What is Cathleen hiding in the turf-loft? Does her

action add to the dramatic interest of Maurya’s entrance?_____________________________________________________

2. What is Maurya’s primary concern?

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3. What do you know about Bartley’s character

before he comes to the scene? What have you known about his character later on? Is he more concerned about his mother, or about his own plan? Support your answer. _____________________________________________________

4. What do these statements of Maurya imply when

Bartley makes an exit?“We’ll not see hi again.”

“When the black night is falling I’ll have no son left in the world.” What do these remarks tell you about Maurya’s state of mind? _____________________________________________________

5. Whose corpse was discovered? What is shocking

about this discovery?_____________________________________________________

6. A great tragic heroine learns from her suffering.

What has Maurya learned? What can we learn from her?

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7. What does the play prove about a person’s

relationship with the environment and the type of weather he or she is in?_____________________________________________________

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DIRECTION: Read through the play again. Jot down what you might need under the following elements of a play that are presented to the audience’s senses.

1. SET – This is to the collection of objects on a stage that create a scene. What should you include in the set?

2. POPERTIES- They are items that can be carried on and off the stage by action. What properties are needed in the play?

3. SPECIAL EFFECTS- They include special audio or visual elements used in the play. What special effects does the play need?

4. COSTUMES- They are the clothing and accessories actors wear. Costumes often indicate occupation and social stature. What costumes should be prepared for Maurya, Bartley, Cathleen, and Nora.

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Deriving Meanings of Words through Context

CluesDIRECTION: Go over these sentences. Give the word or phrase that gives you the clue to the meaning of each underlined word. Then give its meaning.

1. But we can, and must, halt the contamination before our spaceship suffocates from its own foul discharges.

2. We must use it over and over again for infinity, just as if we were in a sealed room for the lifetime of the Earth.

3. And this is why prevention-immediate, drastic and far-reaching—is our only hope for the future.

4. There is nowhere else for the dirt and poisons to go-we cannot open a window in the troposphere and clear out the stale noxious atmosphere we are creating.

5. What is frightening is not so much the death and illness, corrosion and decay they are responsible for-as the fact that this is an irreversible process.

ACTIVITY SHEET #DIRECTION: Paraphrase t he following lines.

I’m very healthy. And I have an eternal

curiosity. Then, I think I’m not dependent on any person. I

lovepeople, I love my family, my

children… But inside myself is a place where I live all alone andthat’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Pearl S. Buck

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