Read a list of ideas for a literary analysis of part 4 of The Call of the Wild. 1. Buck works hard and insists that his sledmates do their fair share. 2. Dave, sick and weak, insists on being harnessed to pull the sled. 3. By the time they arrived at Skaguay, Buck and the other dogs were "on their last legs." Caleb concludes his essay by writing, "In conclusion, pride is powerful." How can Caleb revise his conclusion to make it more clear? Sometimes living beings are so filled with pride that we do things that are harmful or detrimental to our well-being. Pride alone causes people and animals to do things that they otherwise would never do. Even when conditions are dismal or less than ideal, pride is often a powerful force that guides the actions of living creatures. Taking pride in a job well done is something that Buck is ruled by throughout the entire story.'

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.