04.06:Tracing the Tractor's Legacy and The Car Catalyst discuss two different modes of transportation and how they have changed over time. Using the texts, explain how transportation changed the world. Use evidence from the texts to support your response.

Think about an important point you want to make to someone. maybe you want to tell someone you love them. perhaps you need to ask your boss for time off. or you want to get your neighbors to keep their dog from using your lawn as a restroom. whatever the message, however light or serious the tone, use the poetry techniques from lesson 1 to you communicate it in the form of a poem. use at least two examples of figurative language and at least two sound devices (you may choose rhyme as one of your sound devices). bold print or highlight the figurative language and sound devices in your poem to point them out to the reader. this is a creative writing endeavor. have some fun with poetry techniques from lesson one include metaphor simile and personification and sound devices are alliteration assonance consonance and onomatopoeia

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.

“to build a fire” what does the man realize as he’s trying to light the matches? what difficulty occurs when the man finally lights all of his matches at once?