([ANNIE] lets HELEN feel the smile on her face. HELEN sits with a scowl, which suddenly clears; she pats the doll, kisses it, wreathes her face in a large artificial smile, and bears the doll to the washstand, where she carefully sits it.) How do these stage directions add meaning to the play?

The stage directions explain the characters’ facial expressions.
The stage directions describe Annie’s manner of speaking.
The stage directions illustrate the appearance of the room.
The stage directions reveal the historical time period.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

i need it

2. how does malik relate with his mother in “the next adventure”? how do their interactions change over the course of the story? use specific details and evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be at least two complete paragraphs.