Grade 7: Unit 3

I present him to you: Ebenezer Scrooge...England's most tightfisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!

Come, then. What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose?

I am sorry with all my heart, to find you so resolute.

[To Cratchit] He's impossible!

In short, Scrooge's sounds and movements will define him in contrast from all other people who cross the stage: he is the misanthrope, the malcontent, the miser.

In short, Scrooge's sounds and movements will define him in contrast from all other people who cross the stage: he is the misanthrope, the malcontent, the miser.

My life holds parallel! My life ends that way now!

Assure me that I yet may change these shadows that you have shown me by an altered life!

The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.

They are here: I am here: the shadows of things that would have been, may now be dispelled.

I am absolutely in earnest.

He did it all and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father.

All films begin with a screenplay, including those based on other works.

The director is responsible for the film’s visual and dramatic effect on an audience.

An actor’s performance affects how the audience responds to a character.

An editor combines, rearranges, and cuts film and adds things, such as music and special effects.

But she bent down enough to permit him to stoop and pick up her purse.

"Then I won't turn you loose," said the woman. She did not release him.

"But you put yourself in contact with me," said the woman.

The microscope kit supplied a blunt black three-speed microscope, a booklet, a scalpel, a dropper, an ingenious device for cutting thin segments of fragile tissue, a pile of clean slides and cover slips, and a dandy array of corked test tubes.

All I saw in the microscope after a week was a wet chip of dried grass, much enlarged.

I wanted especially to see the famous amoeba, who had eluded me.

The year 2008 marked the first time that more people on Earth lived in cities than in rural areas.

One significant consequence of this turning point is that most people no longer live in the agricultural areas that provide them with food.

Localizing food production through urban farming provides aesthetic, health, environmental, and economic benefits.