Select an adult who is 30 years or older to interview. This person can be a parent, grandparent, neighbor, teacher, etc. Ask your interviewee to identify three words or phrases used when he or she was your age and tell what those words or phrases meant.
Based on the meanings of the three examples you collected, identify current words or phrases used today that have the same meaning as those from 30+ years ago.
Write a brief explanation, detailing what you learned from this interview on our evolving language and what factors you feel might influence language to continually change.
Review the grading rubric to see how your response will be graded.

Which two parts of this excerpt from mary shelley’s frankenstein reveals information about the setting? (it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld the accomplishment of my toils.) with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, (i collected the instruments of life around me, that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. it was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out) when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. (how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe), or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavored to form? his limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful. beautiful! great god! (his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; ) but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.