Part C
The next reading strategy you will use helps to organize the text into smaller sections. This strategy is called chunking the
text. Look at the stanzas of the free-verse narrative passage from Under the Mesquite . Do any of them fit together? Are
there clear tranšitions in the story? How would you chunk the text? Focus on one section at a time. Write an outline of
how you organized the text into smaller sections.

Tip: Chunking the text helps you understand and remember what you read.

c. our lives go by quickly, so take time to enjoy each moment.

explanation:

the autor of the text is bringing the point that one achievment of the president john f. kennedy was a success and this caused the next president to use a similar idea. the purposefor the use of the quotation in the text is to support the idea that peace corps was a result of the president's call. in this case, the quotation is presented as part of the writing and does not stand on its own.

answer a.

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.