Read the excerpt from It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference . Neto was waiting by Andy's locker the next morning. "He had tears in his eyes," Andy remembers. "He said that adult fans were swearing at the Mexican players and that it wasn't fair. He was really hurting. He said, 'Is there any way you can help?' I told him I'd try." When Neto left, Andy walked into the principal's office and repeated Neto's story. He asked for the school's support in dealing with the crowd. "The principal told me he hadn't heard adults say those things," Andy recalls. "He said some of the parents would have to call him and complain before the school administration could get involved. He said Neto had probably heard it out of context anyway." Andy stormed out angrily. How is Andy affected by the conflict that Neto experiences?
Read the excerpt from It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference . That night, Neto, Jesse, and another teammate walked into the coach's office and handed him their uniforms and pads. They explained why they were leaving and expected him to understand, but they were disappointed. "The coach said, 'Quitting will just make it worse,'" Neto remembers. "He said the fans would call us losers and quitters instead of respecting us. Nothing could convince him. After a while we just walked out." Now there was no turning back. Which statement best describes the change in Neto since the beginning of the story?
Read the excerpt from Loom and Spindle . My mother had never complained of her poverty in our hearing, and I had accepted the conditions of my life with a child's trust, knowing nothing of the relative difference between poverty and riches. And so I went to the sewing-school, like any other little girl who was taking lessons in sewing and not as a "charity child;" until a certain day when something was said by one of the teachers, about me, as a "poor little girl,"—a thoughtless remark, no doubt, such as may be said to-day in "charity schools." When I went home I told my mother that the teacher said I was poor, and she replied in her sententious manner, "You need not go there again." Which statement best reflects the narrator’s perspective in the excerpt?
The excerpt is from a memoir because
Read the excerpt from Warriors Don't Cry . I had been patiently waiting, hoping that at any moment my grandmother would signal her approval of my grown-up outfit, upswept hairdo, and high-heeled black patent shoes. Layers of forbidden makeup and dark glasses completed what I thought was the perfect disguise. The white people would never, ever recognize me from any picture they might have seen. What is the central idea of the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Warriors Don't Cry . "That's strange," Mama mumbled as she waved to people who didn't bother waving back. "No matter, maybe they didn't see me." Our neighbors had always been so friendly, but now they peered at us without their usual smiles. Then I saw Kathy and Ronda, two of my school friends, standing with their mothers. Anxious to catch their attention, I waved out the window with a loud "Hi." Their disapproving glances matched those of the adults. What idea is emphasized through repetition?
Read the excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi." Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty’s jewels and gifts. This excerpt is an example of which kind of characterization?
Read this excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bull-dozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned. What inference can be made about Della from this excerpt?
Read the given sentences. The new safety requirements were enacted based on scientists’ recommendations. Fewer accidents occurred. Which combines the sentences to create one complex sentence?
Read the excerpt from Jackson’s blog. Learning to speak a new language is one of the best decisions I ever made! This summer, I traveled throughout Japan with my robotics team and was able to communicate with almost everyone we met. Next year, I’m planning to live in Japan as an exchange student. I think it will help me improve my Japanese reading and writing skills. I hope all my friends get inspired to learn a language, too! The purpose of Jackson’s blog is to
Read the sentence. The harsh wind scoured the scant remaining leaves from the trees, and a desolate landscape remained in its wake . The underlined portion of the sentence is
Which blog statement is an example of a claim?
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