Think about the words and details you noticed in the first paragraph of "Shoes: Feet First!". Walking has always been humans' primary means of travel. Early humans migrated from Africa to India, Asia, and eventually Europe and the Americas largely on foot. On July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong took the next step in this migration by walking on the surface of the moon. Even today, the primary vehicle for millions of people worldwide is their own two feet. What is the authors' claim in this paragraph? o Humans have made great achievements, such as walking on the moon. o Humans migrated from one continent to the next many years ago. O Humans have used walking as their main way of traveling for a long time. O Humans have been on the earth for a long time.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the rhyme scheme of "an open boat" is abcb abab abba aabc

Jargon is a specialized vocabulary of a particular group trade or profession

View a film and read a text-based representation of your hero, such as a modern graphic representation of your hero (comic book, graphic novel). compare how your character is represented in text and how your character is visually represented. next, you will compare how this information informs the idea of what it means to be a hero.