Create an outline for a speech that connects a theme from this excerpt to
connects a theme from this excerpt to your own life. in the first part
of the outline, organize an explanation of what king's theme means.
organize your explanation of how this theme connects to at
" what king's theme means. in the second part of the outline,
n of how this theme connects to at least one event from your life. the first and
utline do not need to be of equal length. throughout the outline, be sure to cite or
describe specific evidence from the text or from your
rom the text or from your personal experiences. also, organize ideas
appropriately, develop your argument with relevant

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.