Complete this problem to test your note-taking skills. Ask a friend to read a short story or article aloud to you. Prepare yourself to listen and take notes. When you finish your notes, use this checklist: Did you prepare yourself for listening by clearing your mind of situations which would keep you from focusing? Did you show courtesy to your friend when he read to you? Did you understand the problem or issue presented? Did the story or article create mental pictures? Did you find the main supporting ideas? Did you discover the conclusion or final decision? Tell the story to your friend to show how well you listened. You may use your notes. Ask your friend to tell you if your notes were thorough. If you need more practice, have your friends read another story and go through the same procedures. Type the notes in the space below and show your teacher the story or article from which your notes came.

Will mark as brainliest excerpt from the christmas carol: use this information to deepen your understanding of the character. oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. the cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. a frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. he carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at christmas. race: use this organizational method to guide your writing- r – restate the prompt a – answer the prompt/questions c – cite evidence e – explain the evidence write your response here:

Read the passage below and answer the question, dill was a curiosity. in the excerpt above, the word "curiosity" suggests that dill is odd dill asks a lot of questions dill is hard to understand dill is lost

What makes the literal, word-for-word translation of the metamorphosis hard to read?