Read the excerpt from "New Land, New Life.""Colby, set up our tent and get a fire going,” Ruth directed her youngest son. "We’ll camp out for a spell,” she added with a grin. Her sons loved the outdoors. The bare earth and night sky were part and parcel of the blood that ran through their veins.Upon hearing this, the man, who had introduced himself by now as a Mr. Calvin Thorpe from Chicago, protested fiercely. "I’m much obliged for your help with the birth of my daughter, but I cannot allow you to move my family into your home. We’ll find ourselves something temporary in the nearest town.”
Which magazine article would most likely include a procedure?
Which statement best explains why George Wallace claims in his inaugural address that Alabama has the right to continue policies of racial segregation?
Which sentence from “Broken Chain” contains the most descriptive language?
Read the excerpt from “The Monkey's Paw.”"Twenty-one years of it," said Mr. White, nodding at his wife and son. "When he went away he was a slip of a youth in the warehouse. Now look at him.""He don't look to have taken much harm," said Mrs. White, politely."I'd like to go to India myself," said the old man, "just to look round a bit, you know.""Better where you are," said the sergeant-major, shaking his head. He put down the empty glass, and sighing softly, shook it again."I should like to see those old temples and fakirs and jugglers," said the old man. "What was that you started telling me the other day about a monkey's paw or something, Morris?""Nothing," said the soldier, hastily. "Leastways nothing worth hearing."
Read the steps in the process of writing a procedural text.1. Create a title.2. Evaluate the process.3. List materials needed to support the process.4. Consider the best method.5. Define numbered steps in the process.
Read these lines from Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken.”Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.
Read the excerpt from “Broken Chain.”He asked his mother if he could have braces, like Frankie Molina, her godson, but he asked at the wrong time. She was at the kitchen table licking the envelope to the house payment. She glared up at him. “Do you think money grows on trees?”His mother clipped coupons from magazines and newspapers, kept a vegetable garden in the summer, and shopped at Penney’s and Kmart.What is a theme expressed in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The Land.But on that night after the boys had torn my book and beaten me, my daddy said to me, "I've decided to send you away to school."I stared at him across our campfire. "Sir?""I want you to have an education and a trade. I want you to have a means of supporting yourself.""B-but," I stuttered, "I know plenty already. I've been studying here, and you and Hammond and George, you all taught me –""What we taught you is only a beginning. Now, there are some colored schools opening up in Georgia and elsewhere where colored boys and girls are going for higher education, and there's a school in Macon you can go to, part-time, and later on, you want to take more schooling, you can do it.”
Read this passage from "The American Dream."One of the first things we notice in this dream is an amazing universalism. It does not say some men, but it says all men. It does not say all white men, but it says all men, which includes black men. It does not say all Gentiles, but it says all men, which includes Jews. It does not say all Protestants, but it says all men, which includes Catholics.
Read the passage.The suspect insisted the detectives were barking up the wrong tree. She explained that she’d been busy at the time of the crime. As a result, the suspect was annoyed when the detectives continued with the questioning anyway.
Read the quotation by Dorothea Lange about the photo “Migrant Mother” from Years of Dust.I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. . . . I did not ask her name or history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children had killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.
Read this passage from “A Smart Cookie” by Sandra Cisneros.Shame is a bad thing, you know. It keeps you down.
What is the most accurate statement about the purposes of the poem "Ellis Island" and the essay "Thanksgiving: A Native American View"?
Read the excerpt from “The Lottery.”Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones; Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix—the villagers pronounced this name "Dellacroy"—eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys.
Which statement best describes a difference between the poem "Ellis Island" and the essay "Thanksgiving: A Native American View" ?
Read the excerpt from "Flowers for Algernon."I asked Dr Strauss if Ill beat Algernon in the race after the operashun and he said maybe. If the operashun works Ill show that mouse I can be as smart as he is. Maybe smarter.Charlie’s thoughts and words in this passage show that he views Algernon as
Read this assignment.Plan a speech in which you encourage your school’s faculty to be environmentally responsible.
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