Question

Read the “Great North American Circus.”
In the story, the author provides colorful descriptions of the growing excitement and the upcoming circus. As the passage ends, two boys read a notice listing a variety of attractions.
In the Narrative Organization Chart, plan your own story featuring the two boys as characters and the circus as your setting.
Be sure to use details from the text as you organize your story.
Complete each box on your Narrative Organization Chart.

Answer 1

@max87

Answer 2

03.02 The Great North American Circus

There was great excitement in Smyrna, especially among the boys. Barlow's Great American Circus in its triumphal progress from state to state was close at hand, and immense yellow posters announcing its arrival were liberally displayed on fences and barns, while smaller bills were put up in the post office, the hotel, and the principal stores, and distributed from house to house.

It was the largest circus that had ever visited Smyrna. At least a dozen elephants marched with ponderous steps in its preliminary procession, while clowns, acrobats, giants, dwarfs, fat women, cannibals, and hairy savages from Tibet and Madagascar were among the strange wonders that were to be seen at each performance for the small sum of fifty cents, children half price.

For weeks the young people had been looking forward to the advent of this marvelous world of curiosities, and the country papers from farther east had given glowing accounts of the great show, which was pronounced greater and more gorgeous than in any previous year. But it may be as well to reproduce, in part, the description given in the posters:

BARLOW'S GREAT NORTH AMERICAN CIRCUS.
Now in its triumphal march across the continent, will
give two grand performances,
AT SMYRNA
on the afternoon and evening of May 18th.
Never in all its history has this
unparalleled show embraced a greater variety of attractions,
or included a larger number of world-famous
acrobats, clowns, bare back riders, rope walkers, trapeze
artists, and star performers,
in addition to a colossal menagerie, comprising
elephants, tigers, lions, leopards,
and other wild animals in great variety.
All this and far more, including a hundred
DARING ACTS,
can be seen for the trifling sum of fifty cents;
children half price.
COME ONE! COME ALL!
Two boys paused to read this notice, pasted with pictures of elephants and circus performers on the high board fence near Stoddard's grocery store. They were Dan Clark and Christopher Watson, called Kit for short.

Writing Prompt
Read the following prompt based on what you just read and organize your ideas into the Narrative Organization Chart

The author provides colorful descriptions of the growing excitement and the upcoming circus.
As the passage ends, two boys read a notice listing a variety of attractions.

Write an original narrative featuring the two boys as characters and the circus as your setting.
Be sure to use details from the text as you tell your story

Answer 3

@THEUSER822

Answer 4

@mrsholmes

Answer 5

can anyone hlp? i need hlp to write the essay

Answer 6

you could write a dialogue between the two boys. Like after they see the sign, you could imagine what the two might talk about. For example, you could have the boys talking about what they are most excited to see at the circus. Or how they will be able to get the money for tickets

Answer 7

oo so like this....

Answer 8

im bad at writing stories so dont judge

Answer 9

yah no nevermind cant think of anything

Answer 10

ok.. so in the text it lists some of the different acts that will be featured in the circus right?

Answer 11

yas

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so you could use those as a base for the conversation. It could go something like this..

Answer 13

"hey we shld go to the circus"

Answer 14

like tht

Answer 15

''as Dan and Christopher finished reading the sign, the looked at each other gleefully. '' Tigers!'' Christopher sqealed. '' and elephants!'' Dan responded.''

Answer 16

something like that

Answer 17

'so we can watch people fall of elaphants and tightropes n laugh in thier faces"

Answer 18

hehe

Answer 19

sorry if its crap, i just took it from the top of my head

Answer 20

wow amber '' falling off of their faces'' rofl

Answer 21

hehehe

Answer 22

silly! :D

Answer 23

good story but it has to be a story

Answer 24

not adding on to the story

Answer 25

well it does say '' featuring the two boys as characters and the circus as your setting. ''

Answer 26

yah meaning use those in the story

Answer 27

@THEUSER822

Answer 28

@amberxoxo can you help me out with a question? I tagged you in it.

Answer 29

idk this im bad at it

Answer 30

plz bb

Answer 31

@mrsholmes hold on i will but wait

Answer 32

k thanks

Answer 33

hlp plzzzzz @THEUSER822 @mrsholmes @TheEdwardsFamily

Answer 34

@nechirwan

Answer 35

I'm sorry amber but other than what I just told you... I cant really think of anything.. give me a min though.. im trying to think of something

Answer 36

ok thnks lots

Answer 37

sure :) i promise i will message you as soon as i think of something

Answer 38

ok