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ELA Drills, Advanced: Punctuation 2. Which of the following sentences is correctly punctuated?
ELA Drills, Advanced: Textual Analysis 2. Which piece of evidence is irrelevant to the claim in the video?
ELA Drills, Advanced: Point of View 2. Which incident was most important in leading to the dramatic irony in the passage?
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ELA Drills, Advanced: Main Idea Question 2. Which of the following books would most likely contain the theme of isolation?
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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by boxing champions
- 00:07
we pitched a screenplay about a guy who boxes things faster than anyone else [People boxing teddy bears]
- 00:11
named schmucky we're still waiting to hear back in the studio let's check out
- 00:15
today's question which of the following books would most likely contains a theme
- 00:18
of isolation and here the potential answers....
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- 00:24
ah yes nothing says fun Saturday night like sitting down to a lovely book on [Man celebrating birthday party alone]
- 00:28
the theme of isolation right well before we start let's remember that isolation
- 00:33
means the state of being apart from people so if any of the books described
- 00:37
in our answers don't fit that idea we can toss them off our list or sorry [Selection of books appear]
- 00:41
women recycle them off our list all right let's take a look at it this one
- 00:45
doesn't seem like a great fit since there's no mention of the boxer being
- 00:48
apart from people draw we know he might be a very social boxer with lots of [Man punching a boxing bag]
- 00:52
boxing friends we only occasionally punches so a is down for the count what
- 00:56
about see does it mentions that the book is about a group of people and it's very
- 01:01
tough to be apart from people when you're all together unless you have one [Lots of people walking in a crowd]
- 01:04
of those giant plastic bubbles let's do it since our answer says nothing about [Person trapped in bubble and bubble pops]
- 01:07
giant plastic bubbles we can recycle it see what about D well this one's closer
- 01:11
but not quite there sure the spider is lost but being lost and being isolated
- 01:16
are very different things for example the lost fighter might meet [Spider appears on the ground]
- 01:19
a whole bunch of different bugs on its way home and although that might sound
- 01:22
like pitch for 6 hour movie it is in isolation so D is a 2 and that leaves us
- 01:26
with B now we're talking this option mentions that the boys lonely and
- 01:31
struggling to make friends in a new school which are perfect ingredients for
- 01:35
the sad soup of isolation that means B is our answer and we're done feel free [A soup dish on a table]
- 01:40
to throw a party and maybe even invite more people enjoy yourself though in [Boy with friends celebrating birthday]
- 01:43
that case you'd have to share the cake so what well maybe
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