Read the sentences. Alaskan brown bears are known to be fierce and protective parents. Encountering a bear and its cub could be dangerous, and hikers should be particularly cautious. Which phrase is a gerund phrase?
Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey . The river, the Río Suchiate, forms the border. Behind him is Guatemala. Ahead is Mexico, with its southernmost state of Chiapas. " Ahora nos enfrentamos a Ia bestia, ” migrants say when they enter Chiapas. "Now we face the beast." Painfully, Enrique, seventeen years old, has learned a lot about "the beast." In Chiapas, bandits will be out to rob him, police will try to shake him down, and street gangs might kill him. But he will take those risks, because he needs to find his mother. What purposes does the author’s use of setting support? Choose two correct answers.
Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey . Most freight cars have two ladders on a side, each next to a set of wheels. Enrique always chooses a ladder at the front. If he misses and his feet land on the rails, he still has an instant to jerk them away before the back wheels arrive. But if he runs too slowly, the ladder will yank him forward and send him sprawling. Then the front wheels, or the back ones, could take an arm, a leg, perhaps his life. " Se lo comió el tren, '' other migrants will say. " The train ate him up ." The purpose of using personification in the excerpt is to show how
Selena wrote this topic sentence in her analysis of Enrique's Journey. Student Work The writer shows why it is dangerous for migrants to sleep during their trip north. Which piece of evidence from the biography best supports Selena’s analysis?
How does the map help the reader understand the passage?
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