Demonstrate your understanding of the appointment of saul as king of israel by describing the story in your own words in a paragraph of no less than 125 of your own words, write a retelling of the story of saul becoming king. you can tell the story from what samuel saw and heard or from what saul saw and heard.

Respond to one of the questions below. include at least two supporting details or examples. a. in “the literature of the middle east and south asia,” laura winkiel writes: “these stories us to understand the complex questions that middle easterners and south asian people ask as they stand at a crossroads of cultural and religious change.” explain how this statement applies to one of the selections you read. be sure to include the title of the selection and explain the crossroads that it illustrates. b. setting and mood are important elements in many of the stories in this unit. choose one story and describe some aspects of its setting: where it takes place; what mood is created by the details of weather, place, and time; and how this setting to convey the theme of the story. c. what did you learn about the role of women in the societies described in the reading selections in this unit? describe how the women cope with the conflicts they encounter. note: if you respond to essay (c), you may not choose the similar essay in the unit 3 unit test.

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance

Which of these novels is considered an important precursor to science fiction