From Bad Boy, Context Clues, Inferencing

What is a major similarity between Walter Dean Myers in the selection Bad Boy and Eliza in the selection Eliza’s Freedom Road? (Include text evidence)

Match the following

• a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network

• accurate

• the main means of mass communication

• media

• a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something.

• attribute

• correct in all details; exact

• interpret

• explain the meaning or significance of

• system

What is the best definition for the word passage in the sentence? 

 

“In Ms. Chopp’s class, we read a passage from the excerpt “Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail”. 

• the act or process of moving through, under, over, or past something on the way from one place to another. 

• a narrow way, typically having walls on either side, allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway. 

• A short story read or paragraph.

• subject (a strain of microorganisms or cells) to a passage. 

Use the word “rank” in a sentence. 

What does the word emphasize me in the sentence?

All ancient writers emphasize the essentially warlike character of the Germani. 

• correct in all details; exact. 

• give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing.

• regard something as being caused by (someone or something).

• a position in the hierarchy of the armed forces.