Read or listen to the story the alchemist by paulo answer the following questions in complete sentences. 1. what lessons lessons are taught about the heart in this story? 2.who or what will you have to give up or distance yourself from in order to follow your heart? 3.Using textual evidence from the story, Describe "omens" and explain how they are to be used. 4. what omens appear in your life and how did you respond to them? 5. what do this story teach about each person's journey in life? 6. what lessons have you learned so far on your own journey? 7. Based on this story? how do you learn to trust your heart? 8. Based on this story how does your heart learn to trust you? 9. what lessons or part of this story can you apply to your own life? 10. what lesson(s) has our current situation taught you? 11. how would you rate this story and why?

Read the following poem carefully, and then answer the questions that follow. sonnet 73 by william shakespeare that time of year thou mayst in me behold when yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang upon those boughs which shake against the cold, bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. in me thou seest the twilight of such day as after sunset fadeth in the west, which by and by black night doth take away, death's second self, that seals up all in rest. in me thou see'st the glowing of such fire that on the ashes of his youth doth lie, as the death-bed whereon it must expire consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. this thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long. comprehension what seasonal images do you see in this poem? how do these images contribute to the poem's tone of loss and sadness?