Text: The first time I was able to do something I'd never been able to do before was when I adopted my dream pet, a baby cockatiel. I felt very happy because I've waited quite a long time to get a baby cockatiel, and I finally got one! It was super sweet when I first saw it. When I put him on my finger, he looked me in the eye and tipped his head to figure me out, he was so cute. I loved him already! Question: Observe Closely: Write 2–3 vivid details that will create a picture of this moment for your reader.

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of julius caesar. cassius. am i not stayed for? tell me. cinna. yes, you are. o cassius, if you could but win the noble brutus to our party— cassius. be you content. good cinna, take this paper and look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, where brutus may but find it. and throw this in at his window. set this up with wax upon old brutus’ statue. all this done, repair to pompey’s porch, where you shall find us. is decius brutus and trebonius there? cinna. all but metellus cimber, and he’s gone to seek you at your house. well, i will hie, and so bestow these papers as you bade me. cassius. that done, repair to pompey’s theatre. what is cassius’s motivation for sending brutus the letter? cassius wants to make sure that cinna is on his side. cassius wants to reassure cinna that brutus will follow them. cassius wants to sway brutus to kill caesar. cassius wants to alert brutus about the conspiracy against him.