Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall

Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall

1. Using context clues define keen-eyed  in line 3.
keen-eye mean to  focus
2. Using the notes, What is Ackerman's purpose in the first paragraph?
The author purpose in the first paragraph to describing a scence.
3. Write 3 sentences, What does Ackerman mean in lines 14-15 "Sunlight rules most living things with its golden edicts?"
Sunlight rules most living things with its golden edicts because without the sun you do not get up in the morning or go to sleep at night .
4. What are two signs fall has begun?
Two sign that fall has began is the macabre holidays and heat-stoppinly beautiful leaves.
5. Using the notes what is the author's purpose in the first paragraph of this page, what about the second?
1.Explain a process
2.Describing a scene
6. What are the two pigments that remain in the leaves, and what color do they make the leaves?
a.Anthocyanin-Red
b.Carotenoids-orange
7. Using notes what is the author's purpose in the first full paragraph of page 543?

Explaning a process
8. Use context clues to define the word symphonic on page 51.
Relating or having a form of charter
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?
We want to be beautiful
10. Define the word "hurling" on line 80 using context clues.
Tossing or Trowing
11. What does Ackerman mean when she suggests that life is capricious in line 95?
Life is unpredictable.
12. What does the last word of the essay "perrish" mean?
Death