Look for key details and see how they develop over the course of the Identify key details about each character's attitudes and opinions. Then complete the chart below.
Character
Attitude Toward Pops
Comments About Pops
Holden
Says Pops wouldn't be interested in
games and thinks technology is scary
Mom
Suggests that Pops might be interested seems to feel Pops is more interesting than
in video games and know something
Holden thinks
about technology
With a partner, read aloud and act out the story's beginning paragraphs. Then take turns explaining
theme, or lesson, that the author may be starting to develop in this part of the story.
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L8: Determining Theme

Read the point that is being made and the illustration that follows it. point: gilgamesh is a courageous leader. illustration: enkidu is frightened of humbaba and wants to turn back, but he tells gilgamesh, "you go into the dreadful forest, you kill humbaba and win the fame.” which explanation best connects this illustration to the point being made? enkidu also tells gilgamesh that he “will return now to great-walled uruk” and that all men will know he has been a coward. although enkidu fears for his own life, he is thoughtless and does not necessarily fear for the lives of others. enkidu is deeply fearful of humbaba, and he strongly believes that gilgamesh has the courage and ability to defeat humbaba alone. this proves that enkidu does not believe that anyone can defeat humbaba, even if he thinks gilgamesh should at least try.

Although william carlos williams rejected traditional verse forms he still believed that is was important to use poetic devices to distinguish verse from prose.

The difference between the present reservoir, with its silent sterile shores and debris-choked side canyons, and the original glen canyon, is the difference between death and life. glen canyon was alive. lake powell is a graveyard. which word best contributes to the author’s sad tone?