In the book the fisherman and the genie and The Young King Of The Black Isles (The Arabian nights) Describe either person that appears out of the wall and turns the fish to ash.
Who goes with the sultan on his journey beyond the lake?

The sultan finds the young King of the Black Isles. Who puts the whip marks on his back every night?

Why does the queen give the young king sleeping potion every night?

Who spends most of their hours in the Temple of Tears?

Why does this person spend so much time there?

Explain how the sultan fixes all the young king’s problems for him. (It starts with pretending to be dead)

Why did it take a year for the sultan to return home when it only took him 5 hours to get to the Young King’s palace?

Considering the story of the young prince, what is it about the story’s plot that made it a risky story for Scheherazade to tell the Sultan?

Explain why Islam might not like the stories in Arabian Nights.
The fisherman tale

With the extra income, the bookers moved to a housing project. "loveman's village was brick," wash said, "and it was warm and well lit. there was a bathtub. it had hot and cold running water. there was a gas heater with a thermostat that came on whenever it got cold." how does this excerpt readers make a personal connection to the story?

Before ending this lesson, take a moment to review an informative research essay you have written. you’ve probably already written a conclusion to the essay. but is it the best conclusion it can be? does it properly summarize the main subtopics of your essay? does it state in one or two sentences the “so what” of your topic. if your topic was abraham lincoln, your essay shouldn’t be just about abraham lincoln. it should answer, “so what about abraham lincoln? ” take five or ten minutes, and looking only at that single paragraph, revise your conclusion

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.