Step 3: reflection questions reflect on how your new tools for reading aided you in understanding the article about kamkwamba. answers: write a paragraph of five or more sentences in which you explain how you used context clues and connotation to better understand words in the article. include at least three instances in which you used context clues to understand specific words in the article. explain how the context clues you understand each word's meaning. paragraph: look up dictionary definition one word you highlighted above. did your context clues you understand the word properly? how did you do? word 1: your guess of the meaning based on context: actual definition of the word: how did you do? look up dictionary definition another word you highlighted above. did your context clues you understand the word properly? how did you do? word 2: your guess of the meaning based on context: actual definition of the word: how did you do? identify three words from the article that have a positive connotation. briefly explain their connotations (how do you know it’s explain how knowing the connotation of these words influenced your interpretation of the article. positive connotation word 1: positive connotation word 2: positive connotation word 3: explanation:

Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .