Break down the structure of the poem by completing
each sentence.
The first stanza is mainly about
The second stanza is mainly about
breaks from the blue-black
skin of the water, dragging her shell
with its mossy scutes
across the shallows and through the rushes
and over the mudflats, to the uprise,
to the yellow sand,
to dig with her ungainly feet
a nest, and hunker there spewing
her white eggs down
into the darkness, and you think
The third stanza is mainly about
of her patience, her fortitude,
her determination to complete
what she was born to do---
and then von realize a greater thi
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Done
Intro

Read the passage you won't have a problem finding a gentle or sociable pet at the shelter. you might have the idea that all the animals there have something wrong with them. if they aren't diseased, they must be vicious. "that's just not so," according to toni troy, who volunteers at the ferndale shelter. she says that the majority of its inhabitants are sweet and fearlessly affectionate. good pets are often abandoned by selfish owners who move, have a change in their family situation, or dump the litters after letting their animals breed. sometimes people just decide that they don't want a pet any longer, even if that animal has been with the family for years. other animals wind up at the shelter because they strayed too far from their homes and their families can't find them. which detail is most in revealing that most pets are in shelters due to no fault of their own. a) she reveals that the reader might think there is something wrong with shelter pets. b) she explains that there are gentle, sociable pets at the shelter. c) she says that some pets at the shelter were abandoned by their owners. d) she states that most pets at shelters are "sweet and fearlessly affectionate."

Write a one-paragraph friendly letter in the box below. the letter will be sent to ashley cooper at 225 east maplewood drive in texarcana, arkansas. the zip code is 30990. be sure to format the letter appropriately

Read the excerpts from “take the tortillas out of your poetry” and “speaking arabic.” my friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. he took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of spanish, english, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. in other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. at a neighborhood fair in texas, somewhere between the german oom-pah sausage stand and the mexican gorditas booth, i overheard a young man say to his friend, “i wish i had a heritage. sometimes i feel—so lonely for one.” and the tall american trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. which best states how the structures of both excerpts support ideas about cultural diversity? each incorporates non-english words. each incorporates academic words. each incorporates offensive words. each incorporates nonsense words.