Read the sentenceGordon gently persuaded his grandfather to play checkers.
Read the excerpt from Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.He had seen the island from the far ledges, standing with his father and Sheriff Elwell and Deacon Hurd and everyone else important in the town. A stony beach, a stony ledge or two, some pines—a few toppled over with their heads in the water, a few tilted, most of them still straight. There had seemed nothing on the island that would set anyone but a gull to wishing that he could live there.But coming on it now, from the water, with Lizzie stroking and angling her way to the point, Turner felt as if he was on the brink of a discovery. . . . Turner felt the world moving slowly and anciently beneath him, and he began to sway back and forth with the waves, with the trees, with the rolling globe itself.
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.
Which best contrasts the way language is used in My Story and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
How is the poem "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" different from the memoir My Story? Select five choices.The poem describes a single scene; the memoir describes many scenes.The poem uses few words; the memoir uses many words.The poem has short lines and stanzas; the memoir is written in prose paragraphs.The poem places the bus ride in historical perspective; the memoir does not.The poem explains why Rosa Parks stayed seated; the memoir does not.The poem shows an outsider’s point of view of Rosa Parks; the memoir does not.The poem compares Rosa Parks’s gaze to a flame; the memoir does not.
Which are some effects of telling the story Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy primarily from the perspectives of children? Check all that apply.a less-biased insight into what is happening between the townsa stronger emphasis on the value of one’s reputation in societya more-practical view of the racial conflict between the townsmore prejudices and biases based on fewer life experiencesa stronger emphasis on the emotional aspect of the racial conflict
how the author feels about an experienceinformation that the author does not knowwhat other people are thinking about the authorseveral people’s views of the same experience
Which sentence is written correctly?
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