After reading Barrio Boy, students were asked to write a paragraph about what they learned from the story. In his rough draft, Seth wrote the concluding sentence shown below.
Barrio Boy is a good story because it tells what it was like for someone to leave Mexico and come to the United
States.
Which answer option shows the best way to revise the concluding sentence for clarity and detail?
A. Barrio Boy is the story about a person who leaves his friends behind in Mexico and immigrates to the United
States with his family.
B. If readers want to know how it feels to leave home, Barrio Boy is a good story about people who move from
Mexico to the United States.
C. The story, Barrio Boy, is for people who live in different countries and want to understand each other better.
D. Barrio Boy describes the author's small Mexican village and relays the adventures of his journey to a new life in
the United States.

What phrase from "speech after being convicted of voting" most engages the audience's sense of pathos, or their emotions?

Which sentence has an incorrect shift in pronoun-antecedent agreement? a) each teacher needs to be paired up. b) each man needs to carry his own load. c) each of these women runs their own business. d) each child should bring his or her own lunch.

Read the following scene from trifles. sheriff (chuckling). married to the law. (moves toward the other room.) i just want you to come in here a minute, george. we ought to take a look at these windows. county attorney (scoffingly). oh, windows! sheriff. we’ll be right out, mr. hale. (hale goes outside. the sheriff follows the county attorney into the other room. then mrs. hale rises, hands tight together, looking intensely at mrs. peters, whose eyes take a slow turn, finally meeting mrs. hale’s. a moment mrs. hale holds her, then her own eyes point the way to where the box is concealed. suddenly mrs. peters throws back quilt pieces and tries to put the box in the bag she is wearing. it is too big. she opens box, starts to take the bird out, cannot touch it, goes to pieces, stands there . sound of a knob turning in the other room. mrs. hale snatches the box and puts it in the pocket of her big coat. enter county attorney and sheriff.) county attorney (facetiously). well, henry, at least we found out that she was not going to quilt it. she was going to—what is it you call it, ladies! mrs. hale (her hand against her pocket). we call it—knot it, mr. henderson. what changes might a director or screenwriter make to the original version of this scene in order to best emphasize the mood? cut dialogue from the scene to make it a more appropriate length update the setting to appeal to a more modern-day audience omit the actions of the characters to avoid confusion and chaos include the use of lighting, camera angles, and sound effects