What makes this part of the anecdote about Elisa effective? When [Elisa] finally walks home, after seven hours of standing at a cash register, her feet hurt. She’s wiped out. It makes the reader trust the author as an authority on teenage issues. It uses emotional language to help the reader experience Elisa’s daily challenges. It presents facts to support the long hours Elisa is required to work.

From his studies of coptic, champollion knew that the egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah. he wrote down the first two letters of that sound, ra. next he put a question mark for the unknown middle hieroglyph. then, at the end, he wrote ss, the sound of the last two hieroglyphs. he studied the combination: ra ? ss. suddenly he remembered a famous pharaoh whose name appeared in ancient greek chronicles and also in the biblical book of exodus: rameses, or ramesses. could this be a hieroglyphic representation of ramesses' name? based on the excerpt, what detail did champollion need to conclude that the hieroglyphics might represent ramesses’s name?

Write a summary about what you have learned about interpreting literature and presenting it to an audience.

How does shakespeare transform the myth of phoebus and daphne to dramatize this theme?