I GIVE Read the excerpt from A Short Walk Around the Pyramids and through the World of Art.
In the past, the Kota spoke to the bones of their
ancestors before making important decisions. They
stored the bones in small baskets woven of rolls of
bark or leaves. Sculpture such as this piece -- which
is called a Kota funerary figure -- was tied to the top
of the baskets. We are not certain what the figure
meant to the Kota
Which text feature would best help the reader
understand this excerpt?
O a sidebar about other African tribes
O a glossary to define the word "funerary"
O a graph showing the number of Kota sculptu
O a chapter heading to summarize the text

April does not let things interrupt her goals, she just continues on until she gets what she wants. complete, run on or comma splice

Read jonathan swift's essay "a modest proposal." note the six numbered arguments that swift makes midway through the essay. write down your analysis and response to his arguments. as you write your response, keep in mind his central themes and ideas in the essay.

Read the passage from the opinion of the court in dred scott v. sandford, written by justice taney. the question then arises, whether the provisions of the constitution, in relation to the personal rights and privileges to which the citizen of a state should be entitled, embraced the negro african race, at that time in this country, or who might afterwards be imported, who had then or should afterwards be made free in any state; and to put it in the power of a single state to make him a citizen of the united states, and endue him with the full rights of citizenship in every other state without their consent? does the constitution of the united states act upon him whenever he shall be made free under the laws of a state, and raised there to the rank of a citizen, and immediately clothe him with all the privileges of a citizen in every other state, and in its own courts? the court thinks the affirmative of these propositions cannot be maintained. and if it cannot, the plaintiff in error could not be a citizen of the state of missouri, within the meaning of the constitution of the united states, and, consequently, was not entitled to sue in its courts. what claim does justice taney make in this passage? that sanford has the right to enslave scott that scott has the right to be emancipated that scott is not a citizen of missouri that sanford cannot sue because he is not a citizen