Short Answer "ACM"

Reorder

Reorder the gist descriptions for:

Paragraphs 1-5; 6-8; 9-11

• The narrator describes his “friend."

  Buddy’s friend announces that “it’s fruitcake weather” and wants to get started baking 30 cakes.

• They prepare to go in search of pecans.

  The pecans were difficult to get/find.

  They shell the pecans for the fruitcakes.

• Buddy reveals how he and his friend make money for their “fruitcake fund.”

  Buddy describes his friend by telling what she does and does not do.

  They count their money, again remembering how they earned it.

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Reorder

Reorder the following for paragraphs:

12-19; 20-24; 25-34; 35-42; 43-45

• Buddy and his friend go to buy whiskey from Mr. Haha Jones.

• They bake the cakes.

  They send them to people who “strike their fancy.”

  There is leftover whiskey

  The other relatives yell at Buddy’s friend.

• Buddy and his friend go and cut their tree.

  They work together to decorate it.

  They work secretly to make each other kites.

• Buddy and his friend spend Christmas Eve together.

  On Christmas day, they exchange gifts and fly kites.

• Buddy explains why this is the last Christmas they spend together.

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Drag and Drop

dance​

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tempt​

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Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

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​"A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote is a story of an unconventional childhood friendship between a young boy and his elderly cousin. Their relationship enables them to cope with the hard economic times of the day and it gives them strength to face their fears. Compose a well developed paragrpah detailing how ther friendshipwas a source of refuyge, courage, and strength for Buddy and his cousin to cope with hard times and accept the inevitibility of thier parting. Support your claims with text based details. Include at least one direct quote. Be sure to check your wrok for proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling

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A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote is a story of an unconventional childhood friendship between a young boy and his elderly cousin. Their relationship enables them to cope with the hard economic times of the day and it gives them strength to face their fears. Compose a well developed paragrpah detailing how ther friendshipwas a source of refuyge, courage, and strength for Buddy and his cousin to cope with hard times and accept the inevitibility of thier parting. Support your claims with text based details. Include at least one direct quote. Be sure to check your wrok for proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling