Use evidence from the text to support each response. Complete at least one full paragraph for each question.
1. Select one of the stories or poems in this unit and identify the author's purpose for writing. Then, identify the theme of that same story or poem. What is the difference between the theme and the author's purpose? Are they the same, or are they different?

2. What views about what's important do most of the stories and poems in this unit share? How do the selections differ in their views of what's important?

3. Name two pieces that share a theme and explain how each story develops this theme.


( I am using The White Umbrella

Write a minimum 150-word response in which you explain how hughes uses poetic devices such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, and enjambment to reveal his theme in "theme for english b."

What can you infer about esperanza's character from the fact that she argues three days with her mother trying to persuade her to write the note?

In the real world, feldman learned to settle for less than 95 percent. he came to consider a company “honest” if its payment rate was above 90 percent. he considered a rate between 80 and 90 percent “annoying but tolerable.” if a company habitually paid below 80 percent, feldman might post a hectoring note, like this one: the cost of bagels has gone up dramatically since the beginning of the year. unfortunately, the number of bagels that disappear without being paid for has also gone up. don’t let that continue. i don’t imagine that you would teach your children to cheat, so why do it yourselves? the excerpt serves as which type of support for the authors’ argument? a claim an example a conclusion a counterclaim