Select the correct text in the passage.
identify the third-person, singular, masculine pronoun in the passage.
i love art. i often visit art galleries with my friend aurelia. aurelia works with me at the bakery. every month we visit the art gallery on jade street. the gallery manager is an old friend of my mother. he was her neighbor when they lived in jackson county in louisiana.

Read the excerpt from a history of the world in 100 objects. power is usually not willingly given, but forcefully taken; and in both europe and america the nineteenth century was punctuated by political protest, with periodic revolutions on the continent, the civil war in america and, in britain, a steady struggle to widen the suffrage. what would be a benefit of reading this text rather than listening to an audio version of it? the reader could analyze the text features in the excerpt. the reader could visualize the description given. the reader could set his or her own pace and reread parts for clarity. the reader could hear the sounds of the political protest.

Constructed response paragraph: after reading “the case for short words,” do you think the author makes a convincing case that short words are effective? explain your answer and support it with evidence from the selection.

The essay sea stars by barbara hurd. what point is the author making by comparing a sea star missing an arm to a human losing a limb?