Each day in Fanning Forest, the animals gathered near a great oak tree to chat. Each day, Hare boasted about his speed.
One day, Tortoise, who was two hours late for the gathering, said, "Hare, you brag about speed. But slow and steady is the way of some of us who have lived a very long time. Join me in a race, and I'll show you." Laughing, Hare agreed.

Which ideas are expressed as literacy themes?

Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of  animal farm. by the autumn the animals were tired but happy. they had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything. it was almost half built now. how does the pacing of this passage affect the reader’s interpretation of the text? a flashback to earlier events provides a pause in the pacing to slow events down. foreshadowing of events provides information as to what will happen to the windmill. the pace of the text quickens to convey the characters’ resolve to finish the windmill. the pace of the text quickens to move the story to its climax, the completion of the windmill.

When a progressive tense is used in the independent clause, the dependent clause typically uses the tense. simple pastsimple presentprogressive pastprogressive prersent