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

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

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@YOUNGSUPERMAN

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@TheEdwardsFamily

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need hlp

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me tooo

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lol

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so all i really need hlp with is i need help planning this stupid essay i have to do

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@spiderman-swag

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@micahm

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hello

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hey wassup

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noting hbu?

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nothin

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thats a lot to read :(

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sorry

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brb

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but its school so of course thrs gonna be lots to read

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lol ok

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yep

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hehe

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jk

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lol

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whats the question?

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its not really a question i just need hlp planning the essay. bc i suck at essays

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brb tho

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brb

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hello

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ok im back

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watup

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how's every one

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me too

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good hbu?

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good

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@TheEdwardsFamily

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hey @spiderman-swag

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Yea

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hey girl @amberxoxo

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thanks for the fan @micahm ! :D

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wassup @spiderman-swag

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any time

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@micahm @TheEdwardsFamily @spiderman-swag wered u go???? i need yall

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bb

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repost question

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im really confused with this question

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ok their is NOOOOOOO question. i am asking for help on the stupid freakin essay tht i have to do. i need help planning it

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i tried to come back

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ok :)

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so can any of yall plzzzz hlp

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name of wasy and then i can help from there

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well i need idas bc im supposte to use the circus as a setting and the two characters in my story i need ideas it has to be 5 paragraphs and has to have a problem in each paragraph except the beginning and end

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frgffgfgfffgf

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brb

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hfhbvgigrdhbvigufdrdufhrdhrfkh so ******* bored

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do you know the story

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yah i posted it

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ok do you know what it is about

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yah

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the circus obviously

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ok i would appreciate if you told me what it's about

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ughghhhhhhh fine

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hold on brb

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@JFraser

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ok this stupid pellet is about two stupid kids who came to the stupid fair

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@Secret-Ninja

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ambr give me a medal

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really @micahm yahoo answers? i know your smarter than that

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it better then Wikipedia

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i did bb

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thanks lol bb

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hehe

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Hartford circus fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_circus_fire
Wikipedia
In mid-20th century America, a typical circus traveled from town to town by train, ... the southwest sidewall of the tent, while the Great Wallendas were performing.

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@micahm i told u wht its bout

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@micahm wat tht

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ok and what is your instruction

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to plan ur essay

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you need you main idea your sub topic and body as in a body paragraph your title and your conclusion

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ok

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have yoy done that

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you*

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as in

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just saying

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ok :)

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if you do that then you got your self a good start

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ok thnks