Summarize the key ideas of the poem in the form of a GRAPHIC ORGANIZER. Jot down THREE new vocabulary and their meanings. FROM THE STORY ' THERE WILL COME A SOFT RAINS ' by john pilip Johnson

Read this sentence. the wind blew, the leaves shook, and the birds flew away. which best describes the structure of this sentence? oa. this sentence places the object before the verb. ob. this sentence places each verb before its subject. oc. this sentence uses a parallel structure but flips the position of thewords. od. this sentence uses parallel subjects and verbs.

Retell the main events of this story as jerry might tell them to his best friend when he returns from vacation or to his own son later in life. in the story through the tunnel

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky