The River Thames stretches 215 miles across southern England. More than eighty islands are scattered throughout its length. The Thames runs right through the center of London. This made the river essential to the growth and success of both London and the United Kingdom.

Which of these would be the BEST way to present information on the number of times the Thames has flooded?

Once, a very long time ago, a man named Amak awoke in the morning and was very hungry -- he wanted some dinner. Before the sun rose over the mountains, he left his family and promised to bring food home to them. Amak, whose stomach growled, knew his family was famished -- and so was he. As he trudged along, Amak realized he had been walking for a long time. He wanted to find food quickly and take it home to his family.

Amak walked through the forest to find food. He looked into the trees to find birds and scoured bushes hoping to find a rabbit. He became frustrated when he found nothing. Amak knew he had to keep searching, though, because his family was counting on him.

Which BEST identifies the main problem or conflict in this passage?

Mary Rowlandson's autobiographical work, A Narrative of the Captivity, describes her experience as a prisoner of the Native Americans during the late 1600s. How might this work give the reader the BEST insight into life during this time?

The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."

Who has his own purpose?

"When about 16 Years of Age, I happen'd to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet." (from Franklin's The Autobiography

Which sentence BEST rephrases this in modern-day syntax?

Josh decided he would research his topic using an______

Which word is correctly spelled and will BEST complete this sentence?

In this mansion of gloom I now proposed to myself a sojourn of some weeks. Its proprietor, Roderick Usher, had been one of my boon companions in boyhood; but many years had elapsed since our last meeting. A letter, however, had lately reached me in a distand part of the country -- a letter from him -- which, in its wildly importunate nature, had admitted of no other than a personal reply. The MS. gave evidence of nervous agitation. The writer spoke of acute bodily illness -- of a mental disorder which oppressed him -- and of an earnest desire to see me...

What can the reader infer to be true of Roderick Usher's character based on how his letter to the narrator is described?

And he was rich, -- yes, richer than a king, --

And admirably schooled in every grade:

In fine, we thought that he was everything,

To make us wish that we were in his place.

What is the meaning of the word schooled?

Excerpt from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

...Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece -- all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round -- more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.

Based on the title and the initial conflict with Widow Douglas, you can infer that the theme of this passage is