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1. Using context clues define keen-eyed in line 3.
2. Using the notes, What is Ackerman's purpose in the first paragraph?
3. Write 3 sentences, What does Ackerman mean in lines 14-15 "Sunlight rules most living things with its golden edicts?"
4. What are two signs fall has begun?
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5. Using the notes what is the author's purpose in the first paragraph of this page, what about the second?
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2.
6. What are the two pigments that remain in the leaves, and what color do they make the leaves?
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b.
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7. Using notes what is the author's purpose in the first full paragraph of page 543?
8. Use context clues to define the word symphonic on page 51.
9 Reread lines 65-70 what does the trees changing leaves say about our own lives according to Ackerman? How do we all wish to be like the trees?
10. Define the word "hurling" on line 80 using context clues.
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11. What does Ackerman mean when she suggests that life is capricious in line 95?
12. What does the last word of the essay "perrish" mean?
After Reading
13. How does a tree dropping it's leaves in autumn help it to survive?
14. What does Ackerman mean by autumn's stealth?
15. In what ways to the bright colors of autumn "dupe" us?
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