Explain how you feel about reading aloud in class or presenting information in front of others. What do you like to read? Who is your favourite author or book? What is your preferred genre (fantasy, sci:fi, historical fiction, nonfiction)? Describe any experience you have had with reading, reporting or writing about books.

Auto = self crat/cracy = rule dem = people which sentence used the underlined word correctly?

Which excerpt from “the girl who silenced the world for five minutes” supports suzuki’s argument that she is “losing [her] future”? coming here today, i have no hidden agenda. losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market. and now we hear about animals and plants going extinct every day – vanishing forever. i'm only a child, yet i know we are all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal.

Read the excerpt and answer the question. the boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. what best describes the figurative language in the sentence above? idiom simile onomatopoeia personification