Read the excerpt from "My First March.” I had never seen so many buses in my life! Whether I looked through the front windshield or the window by my seat, an ocean of buses was all I could see. Yellow school buses, silver Greyhounds, and buses in all kinds of colors that didn’t have any writing on them. Mama said they were all going to the same place as us, which didn’t seem possible. What kind of place could hold all those people? Telling this excerpt from a child’s perspective helps the reader to share the child’s amazement. boredom. confusion. impatience.

"well, i know," she said. "you'll pretend you were men instead of babies. . and war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. and they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs." so then i understood. it was war that made her so angry. what point of view

Passage 1passage 2 read the passage from “the caged bird.” a free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky which phrases representing the idea of freedom connect the poem to the autobiography? “leaps on the back of the wind” connects to “ran down the hill.” “and floats downstream” connects to “and into the road.” “dips his wing in the orange sun” connects to “the good sense.” “and dares to claim the sky” connects to “to stop running.” mark this and return

Saving issues in current developments