Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. One afternoon, after another dreary Sunday, he walked home from Mrs. Cobb's with the sea breeze determined to shove him to Malaga Island. It scooted around him and pulled at his ears. It threw up the dust of the road into his face to turn him around, and when he leaned into it, it suddenly let go and pushed at him from behind, laughing. But with the iron word forbidden tolling like a heavy bell by his ears, Turner would not let himself be brought to Malaga. And so with a last abrupt kick, the sea breeze twisted around and left him. Turner watched it rushing pell-mell down Parker Head and toward the shore. "Go find Lizzie," he whispered. In this excerpt, which indicates that the story is being told from the third-person point of view?
Which best contrasts the way language is used in My Story and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
Which clue best helps readers know that the first two paragraphs of My Story are structured chronologically?
Read the excerpt from Outcasts United . Luma pulled her Volkswagen Beetle into the center's parking lot on a sunny June afternoon in 2004, before her team's first tryouts. She wasn't sure what kind of response her flyers had generated among the boys in the complexes around Clarkston. They were naturally wary. But on the other side of town, Jeremiah Ziaty had no doubt about his enthusiasm for the new team. His mother was still at work when he set out from the family's apartment, a small backpack on his shoulder, ready to play. When Jeremiah arrived at the center, he joined twenty-two other boys on the small field behind the building. Which statement best describes how the author is developing the plot in this excerpt?
Which sources are considered the most reliable sources when conducting research? Choose three correct answers.
Amaya is taking notes for her presentation on the effects of air pollution, and she finds data about how pollution can cause a number of serious respiratory illnesses. In which portion of Amaya’s presentation does this information fit?
Which sentence is the best hook for a speech about saving sea turtles?
Read the excerpt from Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. He spread his arms wide against the ocean sounds: the rush of the waves, the manic giggles of the gulls, the sighing of the sea breeze against the granite. He put his back to all of Phippsburg—Lord, to the entire continent—till with a shrug he sloughed off its heavy stillness and looked for a way to climb down to the water. . . . [F]inally he was down on the beach, breathing hard and deep, like something that was only just coming alive and drinking in the liquid air for the first delicious time. Which best states how Turner’s internal conflict is connected to the setting?
In Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy , how does the time period of 1912 contribute to the main conflict in the novel?
Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country." America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion, the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone. "Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image," the historian Daniel Boorstin wrote. That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal. The reality is often quite different, a great national striving consisting frequently of failure. Many of the oft-told stories of the most pluralistic nation on earth are stories not of tolerance, but of bigotry. Slavery and sweatshops, the burning of crosses and the ostracism of the other. Children learn in social-studies class and in the news of the lynching of blacks, the denial of rights to women, the murders of gay men. It is difficult to know how to convince them that this amounts to "crown thy good with brotherhood," that amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful. Perhaps they understand it at this moment [in the aftermath of 9/11], when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, demands a time of reflection on enormous blessings. Which statement best traces the development of a central idea from one paragraph to the next?
Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country." What is the point of this splintered whole? What is the point of a nation in which Arab cabbies chauffeur Jewish passengers through the streets of New York—and in which Jewish cabbies chauffeur Arab passengers, too, and yet speak in theory of hatred, one for the other? What is the point of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the verge of fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and straights, left and right, Pole and Chinese and Puerto Rican and Slovenian? Other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities. Which statement best summarizes the central idea of this paragraph?
Read the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream” speech. The Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. The emotional connotation of the underlined word helps King express his
Which phrase from Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I have a Dream” speech contains the strongest emotional connotations?
Read the excerpt from President Ronald Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University. But I hope you know I go on about these things not simply to extol the virtues of my own country but to speak to the true greatness of the heart and soul of your land. Who, after all, needs to tell the land of Dostoyevsky about the quest for truth, the home of Kandinsky and Scriabin about imagination, the rich and noble culture of the Uzbek man of letters Alisher Navoi about beauty and heart? The great culture of your diverse land speaks with a glowing passion to all humanity. Which statement about this excerpt is correct?
Read the excerpt from President Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University. Even as we explore the most advanced reaches of science, we're returning to the age-old wisdom of our culture, a wisdom contained in the book of Genesis in the Bible . . . In this excerpt, Reagan uses
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