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Read the excerpt below, and then select one prompt. You will choose to write either a narrative essay or an informational response paragraph.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, excerpt
By Mark Twain

When Tom awoke in the morning, he wondered where he was. He sat up and rubbed his eyes and looked around. Then he comprehended. It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods. Not a leaf stirred; not a sound obtruded [interrupted] upon great Nature's meditation. Beaded dewdrops stood upon the leaves and grasses. A white layer of ashes covered the fire, and a thin blue breath of smoke rose straight into the air. Joe and Huck still slept.

Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard. Gradually the cool dim gray of the morning whitened, and as gradually sounds multiplied and life manifested itself. The marvel of Nature shaking off sleep and going to work unfolded itself to the musing boy. A little green worm came crawling over a dewy leaf, lifting two-thirds of his body into the air from time to time and "sniffing around," then proceeding again—for he was measuring, Tom said; and when the worm approached him, of its own accord, he sat as still as a stone, with his hopes rising and falling, by turns, as the creature still came toward him or seemed inclined to go elsewhere; and when at last it considered a painful moment with its curved body in the air and then came decisively down upon Tom's leg and began a journey over him, his whole heart was glad .... Now a procession of ants appeared, from nowhere in particular, and went about their labors; one struggled manfully by with a dead spider five times as big as itself in its arms, and lugged it straight up a tree-trunk. A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it—which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous [trusting] about conflagrations [fires], and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once. A tumblebug came next, heaving sturdily at its ball, and Tom touched the creature, to see it shut its legs against its body and pretend to be dead. The birds were fairly rioting by this time. A catbird, the Northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom's head, and trilled out her imitations of her neighbors in a rapture of enjoyment; then a shrill jay swept down, a flash of blue flame, and stopped on a twig almost within the boy's reach, cocked his head to one side and eyed the strangers with a consuming curiosity; a gray squirrel and a big fellow of the "fox" kind came skurrying along, sitting up at intervals to inspect and chatter at the boys, for the wild things had probably never seen a human being before and scarcely knew whether to be afraid or not. All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene.

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Select only one prompt. You will choose to write either a narrative essay or an informational response paragraph. Choose one of the following tasks and complete a short essay:

Prompt Choice 1 (Narrative Essay)

Read this sentence from the story and the prompt below. Write a well-developed narrative essay.

...a gray squirrel and a big fellow of the "fox" kind came skurrying along, sitting up at intervals to inspect and chatter at the boys, for the wild things had probably never seen a human being before and scarcely knew whether to be afraid or not.

Have you ever come face to face with an animal-a bird, a squirrel-in the wild who was not afraid of you? Recall a time when an animal acted in a way that seemed unexpected. Write a narrative of your experience.

**Be sure that your narrative has a clear beginning, middle, and end. Use your mature voice, specific details, sensory descriptions, and dialogue. Proofread your work before submitting.

Prompt Choice 2 (Informational Response)

Review the excerpt above. Answer the following question in a well-developed paragraph.

What character traits does Tom demonstrate when he is lost in the woods?

**Be sure to re-state the question in your topic sentence and use specific examples and details from the story to support your answers. Proofread your work before submitting.

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Explanation

One day, in the empty forest, i spotted a buck [deer] just off the edge of the river drinking water. I inched my way over to get a better look at the creature. Then trotted along three baby deers joining their mother, each deer had its own patter of black spots on its body. Each distinguishing itself from others. As the deer finished their quenching drink of water, They spotted me quietly looking at them. They surveyed the area around me and gave me a good look....

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Answer:

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Explanation:

Jerry is working on a research project about the effectiveness of social media marketing. He found some sources with information relevant to his project, and he's trying to determine which ones are credible. Which three sources should he select to use for his project?

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Which properties should you use to solve the equation 4x+2=18?

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Which quotation from "The Black Cat" best supports the idea that the narrator wants the reader to identify with him and understand him?
“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not?”

“This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.”

“I had so much of my old heart left, as to be at first grieved by this evident dislike on the part of a creature which had once so loved me.”

“My original soul seemed,...to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.”

who does abigail blame for the incident that occurred in the woods?

Which scientific term could be used in place of the word germ?
a. bacteriology
b. pathogen
c. host
d. replicate

What is the author's purpose in writing this passage?

A) to inform
B) to persuade
C) to frighten
D) to entertain

A common function of a comma is:
Select one:
1)to show a minor pause or set aside extra information
in a sentence
2)to indicate an omission of a word or phrase in a
quotation
3)to end a sentence.
4)to show a significant pause, break, or change in a sentence

In act 1 of the crucible Abigail is
A.manipulating the other girls
B.very popular
C.uninvolved

What page is the word "ballistics" on in Fahrenheit 451?

Why do you think that Hazel (who has cancer) rejected Augustus (best friend who lost his girl from cancer) from seeing her in a hospital bed?

Which answer choice accurately describes the use of passive voice?

In the passive voice, the subject and object perform the verb together.
In the passive voice, the subject and the verb are not related.
In the passive voice, the subject receives the action of the verb.
In the passive voice, there are more subjects than objects.

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Which excerpts from Act III of Hamlet show that plot events have resulted in Claudius feeling guilty? Select 3 options. Claudius: I like him not, nor stands it safe with us To let his madness range. Claudius: I your commission will forthwith dispatch, And he to England shall along with you. Claudius: A brother's murder! Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will: Claudius: Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Claudius: But, O! what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?'​

Which of the following rhetorical devices is used in the example below? *
we've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers.
Anecdote
Allegory
Parallelism
Repetition

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In which passage from “Cranes” is flashback used? Cranes

A) Song-sam asked the police officer who had come with him from Ch’ont’ae for an explanation. The prisoner was the vice-chairman of the Farmers’ Communist League and had just been flushed out of hiding in his own house.

B) They reached the hill pass, the hill where he and Tok-chae used to cut fodder for the cows until Song-sam had had to move near Chontae, south of the Thirty-eighth Parallel, two years before the liberation.

C) In front of the farmhouse that had been turned into a public peace-police office, a young man stood, tied up. He seemed to be a stranger, so Song-sam approached him to have a close look.

D) Once when they were small, he went with Tok-chae to steal some chestnuts from the grandpa with the wen. It was Song-sam’s turn to go up the tree. Suddenly there came shots from the old man. He slipped and fell to the ground.

Figurative Language: "Solitary as an oyster" is what type of figurative language. A comparison is make using "like or as."
A metaphor
B simile

What kind of poem is this “I saw two seagulls
And a red bird wa free
And ped
Waiting there for spring
• Jennifer”

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Read Shedding Light on a Dark Day, by Robin Meriwether. The paragraphs have been numbered to help you identify them more easily.

Shedding Light on a Dark Day, by Robin Meriwether
On May 19, 1780, the skies over New England turned dark in the middle of the day. For more than two hundred years, New England's Dark Day had been shrouded in mystery. Some blamed volcanoes. Some suggested supernatural events. Some claimed it was a sign from the heavens. No one knew for certain what happened. Many thought the mystery would never be solved.

Researchers at the University of Missouri were fascinated by the case. They began examining trees in all surrounding areas. Fire damage in a Canadian forest finally revealed the truth. Scientists looked at burned tree rings and discovered that huge wildfires once raged in the mountains near Ontario. The savage flames created blankets of black smoke. The smoke traveled high into the atmosphere, darkening the New England skies hundreds of miles away.
What is the central idea of this article? Group of answer choices:

A.) No one knew why there was a really dark day in New England.

B.) On May 19, 1780, the skies over New England turned dark in the middle of the day. For more than two hundred years, New England's Dark Day had been shrouded in mystery. Researchers at the University of Missouri were fascinated by the case.

C.) The mystery lasted for over two hundred years.

D.) For over two hundred years, the reason for New England's Dark Day was unknown. Finally, researchers from the University of Missouri discovered that wildfire smoke from Canada rose up to the atmosphere, traveled hundreds of miles, and blotted out the sunlight over New England.

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Use a semicolon and a______ to join two independent clauses, creating a compound sentence.

What verse is the poem written in

(On achieve3000) Which of these is a statement of opinion? Press enter to interact with the item, and press tab button or down arrow until reaching the Submit button once the item is selected AChanges occur in the body according to the time of day during 24-hour cycles in response to circadian rhythms. Adolescents with later school start times will take advantage of the additional time for sleeping in the morning by staying up later at night. CSeattle Public Schools began having later high school start times that meet California's standards before California did. California middle schools must start their school days no earlier than 8 a.M. Beginning in the 2022 school year.

Does independence come with time or because of circumstances?

Read the excerpt from Monster.

PETROCELLI
You ever talk to Mr. Cruz? Osvaldo Cruz.

STEVE
Yes, he’s about my age. I’ve talked with Osvaldo.

PETROCELLI
What did you talk to Mr. Cruz about?

STEVE
Same thing, mostly. About playing ball, or the weather. Or what’s going on in the neighborhood.

Based on this dialogue, what can the reader infer?

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Which of the following selections is best supported by evidence in the text?

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15. Which phrase best describes how a character's perspective might create an internal conflict?
A. when a character has a different opinion than another character
B. when a character doubts his or her point of view
C. when a character decides that his or her life is fine as it is
D. when a character struggles with how other's view him or her

16. What type of phrase is the underlined portion of the following sentence?
"Riding the roller coaster made May's stomach upset."
A. gerund phrase
B. infinitive phrase
C. prepositional phrase
D. participle phrase