Back in the spring of 1955 a teenage girl named claudette colvin and an elderly woman refused to give up their seats in the middle section of a bus to white people. when the driver went to get the police, the elderly woman got off the bus, but claudette refused to leave, saying she had already paid her dime and had no reason to move. when the police came, they dragged her from the bus and arrested her. now, her name was familiar to me.

–my story,
rosa parks

what text structure is being used?

which words are a clue to this type of structure?

what does this type of structure the author communicate?

1. Chronological

2.Back, When, and Now

3.The Progression of Events Over Time

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

i think that the quotes in paragraph 11 contribute to the development of ideas because it provides a good reasoning of the central idea of the text.