What is this excerpt mostly about? Read the excerpt from The Ancient City.
There were no desks. Vase paintings show boys sitting
on stools holding wood-backed wax writing tablets. They
wrote on the wax with a stylus, a sort of bone or metal
pencil pointed at one end and flattened out in a leaf
shape at the other. Many of these have been found. The
flattened end was used for smoothing out the wax to
make corrections. Occasionally they were allowed to
write properly, with a reed pen and ink on papyrus. All
books were written on papyrus, and rolled up in scrolls
rather than bound in pages.
o what the classrooms looked like
what the books were made of
O what tools students used to write
O what materials were used as pencils

Read the sentence. thomas jefferson himself worked on a draft of the document. what kind of pronoun is himself?

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?

Aunit "tradition vs. change" to memorize and read aloud. in the written introduction, engage the listener; state the origin of the excerpt; and identify who wrote it and its literary significance.