Read the following excerpt from leslie marmon silko’s story "the man to send rain clouds." "we found him under a cottonwood tree in the big arroyo near sheep camp. i guess he sat down to rest in the shade and never got up again." leon walked toward the old man's bed. the red plaid shawl had been shaken and spread carefully over the bed, and a new brown flannel shirt and pair of stiff new levi's were arranged neatly beside the pillow. louise held the screen door open while leon and ken carried in the red blanket. he looked small and shriveled, and after they dressed him in the new shirt and pants he seemed more shrunken. what detail from this excerpt best symbolizes traditional pueblo culture? the cottonwood tree the new brown shirt the old man’s bed the red blanket

Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?

In "the grateful stork," the old man is in a rush to get to town but stops to a trapped stork. what does this most likely tell the reader about the old man

Which aspects of a story best the reader understand the author purpose? select three options