Essay Prompt: You have read four texts: “Two Kinds,” “The Possessive,” “Rules of the Game,” and “From Tiger to Free-Range Parenting.” Write a multi-paragraph essay in which you answer the essential question for this set of texts: Why are parent-child relationships challenging? Be sure to include specific details from more than one text in your essay.

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.